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Submission Lead
Gentilly, France Salary Range EUR 54,400.00 - 72,533.33
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Bring your curiosity to a team where deep immunoscience meets cutting-edge innovation. Across oncology, rare diseases, neurology, and vaccines, you’ll work at the intersection of lab science and AI-powered discovery — all while collaborating across boundaries to turn breakthrough ideas into real-world impact. Whether you want to deepen your scientific expertise or grow as a leader, you’ll find the opportunity here.
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Job title: Submission Lead
- Location: Marcy l’ Étoile or Gentilly
About the job
As Submission Lead within our Global Submission Management (GSM) team, you'll lead the implementation of cutting-edge regulatory data standards and ensure timely, compliant submissions to Health Authorities worldwide. Ready to get started?
Join Sanofi's dynamic Global Submission Management (GSM) team, part of Global Regulatory Operations (GRO), where a diverse group of regulatory professionals work collaboratively across geographies to ensure timely, accurate, and compliant submissions to Health Authorities worldwide. You'll play a key role in ensuring that medicinal product information is submitted in standardized, structured formats — directly contributing to patient safety and regulatory efficiency at a global scale.
About Sanofi:
We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
Main responsibilities:
- Lead structured data operations end-to-end, ensuring timely and compliant submissions to Health Authorities worldwide.
- Manage and develop a team of structured data specialists to meet all compliance requirements and quality standards.
- Drive the global implementation of IDMP standards and monitor changes to regulatory data requirements.
- Represent Sanofi in working groups with Health Authorities and industry partners to shape regulatory innovation.
- Oversee data quality control and track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to ensure on-time submissions.
- Set up and monitor service agreements with vendors and contractors to ensure operational excellence and timely delivery.
- Provide expertise during audits and support inspection processes with required documentation and responses.
- Work with stakeholders to continuously improve structured data processes and build team expertise.
What we offer you:
- A fixed salary over 12 months, supplemented by a short-term incentive as well as a collective variable compensation based on Sanofi Group results.
- Because taking care of our employees is also our mission: 31 days of paid leave + RTT depending on your status, remote work up to 2 days/week, quality health insurance, public transport coverage up to 80%, extended maternity/parental leave (18/14 weeks), Group Savings Plan & PERCOL with employer matching, PERO, numerous CSE benefits, internal and international mobility opportunities, learning & development opportunities, and many other benefits to discover here.
About you
Experience:
- Extensive pharmaceutical regulatory affairs and/or regulatory data background, with proven hands-on experience in structured data submission applications and RIM systems.
- Strong knowledge of medicinal product information and global information standards
- Understanding of global regulatory environment and Regulatory Information Management (RIM) Systems
- Knowledge of pharmacovigilance regulations preferred
Soft & technical skills:
- Strong influencing abilities to drive compliance across affiliate organizations and educate teams on structured data submission subjects.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills to handle complex, multi-stakeholder initiatives;
- Continuous improvement mindset with focus on process optimization and subject matter expertise development.
Education:
- Degree in Life Sciences, Information Technology, or related field is preferred
Languages:
- Fluent English (spoken and written) required;
- Additional language knowledge is a plus
Why choose us?
- Turn bold ideas into breakthrough launches, with multiple new therapies planned through 2030 and beyond.
- Lead and be the Subject Matter Expert for the global transition to IDMP standards — a transformative regulatory initiative that modernizes data exchange with Health Authorities worldwide — and become a subject matter expert (SME) in this groundbreaking implementation.
- Drive meaningful impact on priority portfolio regulatory submissions with visibility into a strategically important business area.
- Develop your career with access to cross-functional moves, and opportunities to grow across a global regulatory network.
- Collaborate with leading regulatory experts, data specialists, and Health Authorities in a purpose-driven community dedicated to patient safety.
- Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what's next.
- Enjoy outstanding benefits, including flexible working options, comprehensive healthcare, and well-being programs designed to help you thrive.
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Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
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Final compensation will be determined based on demonstrated experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.
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- Expand your horizons. Grow through curiosity, with support to move, learn, and lead in a culture that champions mentorship, mobility, and bold development.
- Accelerate results with technology. Harness the power of AI and automation to push scientific boundaries and reimagine what's possible in drug discovery.
- Impact through inclusive innovation. Help deliver better science and fairer outcomes by driving inclusive research that reaches more people, in more meaningful ways.
- Turn patient needs into breakthrough science. Drive scientific breakthroughs that start with patient needs – and end in treatments that change lives.
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