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Our Team

Launch Team at Sanofi is a high-performing team of Medical leaders who are a trusted source of scientific and Medical information and shared insights; effective and innovative strategic partners to our internal and external stakeholders; and dedicated to public health. We represent diverse experiences and backgrounds which strengthens our team and mirrors the healthcare communities we engage. 

The New Launches Medical Manager will play a key role in developing and executing the medical and scientific strategy for the Turkey New Launches portfolio/therapeutic area. This role requires close partnership with other functional franchise leads, ensuring alignment with the overall franchise strategy.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the development and implementation of the medical launch strategy for the new products, including target audience segmentation (HCPs, patient associations, etc.) and communication planning from inception to execution.

• Translate global medical strategies into robust local business cases and integrated growth plans for pipeline products, ensuring alignment with Turkey's specific healthcare landscape and patient needs.

• Contribute to successful introduction of new products and indications to the market; brand plan and business plan preparation; medically to establishment of the related product and marketing strategy.

• Proactively provide critical medical insights and data for the development of comprehensive business cases and integrated growth plans, ensuring the medical strategy underpins market access and commercial success.

• Deep therapy area expertise and product knowledge including competitor data.

• Leverage deep therapy area expertise and comprehensive product knowledge, including competitor landscapes, to identify strategic opportunities and address potential challenges for pipeline products.

• Utilise strong business acumen, acting as a key strategic business partner to the organisation.

• Demonstrate ability to strategically engaging with and managing networks of Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), professional associations, patient organizations, and other vital healthcare stakeholders in the region.

• Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), professional associations, and patient organizations to gather insights, validate unmet needs, and shape the medical understanding of pipeline therapeutic areas and products.

• Drive strong collaborative relationships with cross-functional teams, including marketing, value & access, health economics, regulatory and clinical.

• Drive collaborative relationships with above-country colleagues to ensure the Turkey involvement and strategic input into global and regional plans.

• Ensure all medical strategies and initiatives are developed with a deep understanding of the patient journey, addressing unmet patient needs and improving patient outcomes at every stage, from diagnosis to treatment and beyond and implementing medical strategies.

• Lead and drive rapid integrated evidence planning and execution through deep understanding of internal and external stakeholder evidence needs and robust data gaps analysis.

• Spearhead proactive integrated evidence generation plans based on rigorous data gap analysis and the evolving needs of internal and external stakeholders, to optimize scientific understanding and support future market access.

• Contribute to the product's clinical development roadmap, identifying Turkey-specific clinical needs and data gaps, and spearheading the initiation of relevant clinical studies or Real World Evidence (RWE) projects.

• Actively contribute to and influence the global clinical development roadmap by identifying Turkey's unique demographic and unmet medical needs, thereby advocating for and securing Turkey's inclusion in global clinical phase studies. This includes the strategic selection of appropriate research centers and, where relevant, leading the initiation of local clinical studies, Investigator-Initiated Studies (IIS), or Real World Evidence (RWE) projects to address specific data gaps and local requirements.Initiate and drive projects to raise standards of care and change clinical practice.

• Conceptualize and drive initiatives aimed at enhancing standards of care and fostering positive shifts in clinical practice, ultimately improving patient outcomes through scientific exchange and education.

• Ability to work independently with a solutions-oriented and balanced approach to ambiguity.

• Lead creation and implementation of medical plans.

• Ability to rapidly assimilate new data and integrate into new therapy area.

• Create industry leading digital educational and scientific content that is timely, relevant, interactive and innovative.

• Good understanding of the impact and evolution of healthcare systems.

• Demonstrate strong leadership influencing across networks and by coaching and mentoring members of the team.

Education/Experience/Certification & Basic Qualifications

• Doctorate level education: Medical Doctor or Pharmacist

• Industry experience (including medical affairs field or office) and/or clinical experience

• Very good teaching and coaching skills

• Good presentation skills

• Ability to travel up to 20-30% of the time

• Fluent in English and in Turkish, written and oral communication

Preferred Qualifications & Skills

Exceptional Scientific Acumen & Deep Therapeutic Expertise:

• Strong scientific acumen and profound understanding of the local regulatory and scientific environment.

• In-depth therapy area expertise and comprehensive product knowledge, including robust competitor data analysis.

• Demonstrated ability to rapidly assimilate and integrate new scientific data into evolving therapy areas.

Strategic Data Generation & Insights:

• Excellent understanding of the continuum of data generation, encompassing clinical development, Real World Evidence (RWE), and adept data gap analysis.

• Proven capability to identify unmet medical needs and translate them into actionable evidence generation strategies.

Dynamic Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Strong business acumen, enabling the individual to act as a key strategic business partner to the organization.

• Demonstrated ability to strategically engage with and manage networks of Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs), professional associations, patient organizations, and other vital healthcare stakeholders within the region.

• Exceptional interpersonal skills, with a proven track record of building trust and fostering strong, collaborative relationships with diverse cross-functional teams (e.g., commercial, market access, regulatory, clinical).

• Ability to act independently, demonstrating a solutions-oriented and balanced approach to ambiguity and complex situations.

• Demonstrated resilience and adaptability in navigating ambiguous, complex, and rapidly evolving early-stage pipeline environments with a solutions-oriented approach.

Impactful Communication & Scientific Engagement:

• Outstanding communication and presentation skills, including the ability to lead challenging discussions and convey complex scientific information clearly and concisely to diverse audiences.

• A track record of understanding HCP communication preferences to adapt communication styles and optimize the use of relevant channels (including Omnichannel tools) for effective and meaningful scientific engagement journeys.

• Confidence in leveraging Omnichannel tools and a proactive ability to adapt to new digital channels and innovative communication methods.

• Proven ability to effectively and compliantly share unmet needs of HCPs and their centers with cross-functional teams, directly informing patient-centric strategies.

Launch Excellence & Market Access Savvy:

• Extensive experience in product launches and lifecycle management, coupled with comprehensive knowledge of market access ecosystems and reimbursement processes.

• Good understanding of the impact and evolution of healthcare systems and their implications for new product introduction and market adoption.

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We are Sanofi, an innovative global healthcare company. We chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.  

Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to make the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our commitments.

We are one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Turkey, serving public health for with more than 1,600 employees. Adding value to local economy and development in Turkey, we offer a broad range of products including innovative therapeutic solutions, biotechnological pharmaceuticals, vaccines, and consumer healthcare products.

Our factory in Lüleburgaz is one of the leading pharmaceutical manufacturing plants in Turkey. It is also among the top three Sanofi production sites worldwide in terms of its manufacturing capacity. Our manufacturing site, produces high-quality pharmaceuticals in many different forms in accordance with global health standards, and develops generic medicine at its on-site R&D Center.

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