Medical Advisor

• Grade: 3
• Location: Madrid/Barcelona
• Job type: Permanent, Full-time

About the job

Our team:

At Sanofi, we are driven by one purpose – 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 turn the impossible into the possible.

Since we launched our first diabetes treatment, we’ve been at the forefront of diabetes management, coupling breakthrough advances with the quality, resilience, and scale of a global organization. 

We're proud of our 100-year legacy in insulin, and we're continuously transforming care for people living with diabetes. 

Sanofi has also been at the forefront of CVD management for more than 60 years. Building on our unique heritage and looking to the future, we’re also chasing the miracles of science for people living with cardio-metabolic-renal diseases.

We’re working to help reverse the course of chronic disease, continuously evolving and working closely with healthcare partners to provide solutions. 

We are proud to be a healthcare organization that offers a complete range of medications for high-risk cardiovascular patients and their physicians. 

We are a team passionate about science and how we can improve the lives of patients. We leverage our innovation and transformation to support patients. Cross-work is one of our hallmarks and each of us lives the Play to win behaviors. We embrace a diverse and inclusive culture that engages and develops people to deliver outstanding results.

We now present an exciting opportunity for you to go further faster. If you’re excited by the prospect of ensuring the best-in-class insulin and LLT therapies to impact in patient’s life, then we want to hear from you as we build a great team who will work in ensuring that very high CV risk patients receive an optimized treatment according to their needs.

This is a chance to bring your energy, expertise, and experience to truly transformative and career-defining leadership roles where you can help change countless lives. In return, you will have the opportunity in pharma – the chance to transform the clinical practice and ensure that all persons with diabetes and very high CV risk achieve their glycemic and lipidic objectives (respectively), improving the lives of millions of people with chronic disease.

This really is a ‘prime time’ role offering you huge visibility working in CFM and new WoW and the chance to fast-track your career in healthcare.

Medical Advisor role:

As a medical advisor, your mission will be the implementation and management of all medical activities of products related to cardiometabolic therapeutic area in accordance with current regulations, internal standard operating procedures, and medical management guidelines, to achieve the company's strategic business objectives and ensure cross-cutting cooperation with business teams and support teams.

Besides, you will be a trusted scientific partner for external experts and decision-makers (incl. KOLs, other scientific stakeholders, Medical societies, peer to peer communities, patient associations, etc.) engaging in mutual scientific exchanges to accelerate data dissemination on a best-in-class therapy in diabetes and dyslipidemia.

You will be primarily responsible to enhance the understanding of the scientific and medical value of our product in the therapeutic area.

Reporting to EP Growth Medical Lead, this role is strategically positioned to realize the ambition for Dyslipidemia/diabetes team and contribute to the success of Sanofi.

Establishing and maintaining long-term professional relationships with medical experts and other stakeholders within the healthcare field.

Leading and maintaining relationships with employees of medical affairs, marketing, sales, market access and other stakeholders.

Contributing to the design and executioning of medical activities aligned with the marketing strategy but also collaborating in all cross-functional projects (CFM and WoW).

Providing medical information to stakeholders.

We are seeking a highly motivated and visionary leader interested in shaping the management of patients who have very high or high cardiovascular risk (including diabetes).

Your core responsibilities will include:

• Supporting Medical Lead in establishing the Glocal Medical Plan and its implementation.
• Detecting clinical development opportunities or generating knowledge regarding the therapeutic area.
• Keeping up to date about medical and scientific developments in the Dyslipidemia/diabetes area (including competitors).
• Working with cross-functional team to leverage an omnichannel approach in the engagement with external experts and orchestrate a high-touch & personalized engagement across different innovative channels (e.g., social media, peer-to-peer communities, websites, online portals, etc.)
• Gathering data and identifying insights from the field in-field interactions (visits, congresses,…) or coordinating/participating in Advisory boards. Providing feedback to the cross-functional organization to feed the Medical Glocal strategy (e.g., allowing enhancement of scientific messages, plans, etc.)
• Tailoring engagement to the different segments of stakeholders, based on comprehensive stakeholders’ mapping (incl. KOLs or other scientific stakeholders).
• Coordinating, answering and/or directing to right teams any direct requests for ISS, RCT, RWE or others.
• Supporting Market Access team in driving the access strategy by engaging with regional payers / drug formulary committees and key account decision-makers to drive evidence / clinical value discussions (incl. treatment, health economics) or supporting them in the development of scientific reports/value dossiers as well.
• Engaging with experts from key accounts (e.g., KOLs in Centers of Excellence) to share scientific data, answer scientific questions and support them in developing best practices (i.e., multidisciplinary units)
• Disseminating scientific information including innovative medical education materials and research concepts to KOLs and fostering medical and scientific information exchange between the medical community
• Training:
  • Developing scientific training to marketing, sales and other departments
  • Monitoring strategic publications and preparing a summary with key findings.
  • Collecting information about our competitors and comparing with our product.
  • Sharing educational materials with KOLs and broader medical audiences/groups

About you

• Experience:
  • Experience in medical department, Medical or Office-based positions
  • Experience in cardiovascular/diabetes therapeutic area preferred.
  • Experience in academia / research environment highly preferred.

• Soft skills:
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to utilize effective, professional communications to cultivate strong working relationships with internal and external colleagues, flexible in own approach to people and situations.
  • Skilfully plans, prioritizes, and executes multiple responsibilities and projects.
  • Ability to work agile, demonstrate creativity and be a strong team player.
  • Agile learner who is comfortable operating in complex environments and working on multi-disciplinary teams (teamwork mindset)
  • Ability to build proper environment to enable Playing to Win culture to flourish.

• Technical skills:
  • Clear understanding of medical practice, clinical decision-making and healthcare systems related to very high or high CV risk patients.
  • Ability to leverage an omnichannel approach in the engagement with external experts to orchestrate a high touch & personalized engagement based on their level of maturity and preferences.
  • Ability to interpret key scientific data and translate this information to meet educational and research needs.
  • Ability to develop and convey a simple yet compelling value narrative to a broad set of stakeholders.
  • Ability to stay abreast of data, treatment trends, and new information in the profession and ability to articulate cardiovascular knowledge and translate expert feedback into appropriate insights.
  • Understanding Health Economics and value outcomes to support Market Access discussions.

• Education: Advanced degree in a scientific or medical field (MD, PhD, Pharm D) preferred
• Languages: Strong communication and presentation skills in Spanish and English both written and verbal

Why choose us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare,

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary.

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

*The Spanish subsidiary is currently undergoing a social process and, in managing vacancies, priority will be given to internal applications.