Rare Diseases Medical Manager

Job title: RD Medical Manager

• Location:  Istanbul / Turkey
• Job type: Permanent, Full time

Our Team

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

About the job:

As Rare Diseases Medical Manager within our Eurasia Rare Diseases Medical Team, you'll lead the medical and scientific strategy for Sanofi's Turkey rare diseases portfolio — shaping clinical practice, driving evidence generation, and connecting global ambition to local impact. Ready to get started?

Based in Istanbul and embedded in a high-performing, diverse team of medical leaders, you will translate global strategies into locally relevant plans for Turkey's unique healthcare landscape. Working closely with cross-functional partners — from market access to clinical — you'll be a trusted scientific voice for both internal stakeholders and the external medical community, with a direct impact on patients living with rare diseases.

Main responsibilities

• Lead the development and execution of medical launch strategies for new rare disease products — from target audience segmentation (physicians, patient associations, key opinion leaders) through to communication planning and implementation.

• Build integrated evidence generation plans by identifying local data gaps and unmet medical needs; initiate clinical studies, investigator-led research, and real-world evidence projects to address them — including advocating for Turkey's inclusion in global clinical trials.

• Cultivate and manage strategic relationships with key opinion leaders, professional associations, and patient organizations to gather insights, validate unmet needs, and advance scientific understanding of the therapeutic area.

• Partner closely with cross-functional teams — at both country and above-country levels including marketing, market access, health economics, regulatory, and clinical — to ensure medical strategy underpins both patient outcomes and commercial success.

• Create innovative, digital-first scientific and educational content; adapt communication approaches to healthcare professional preferences using omnichannel tools to deliver meaningful scientific engagement.

• Contribute to brand and business planning by translating global medical strategies into robust local growth plans tailored to Turkey's healthcare environment.

• Drive initiatives that raise standards of care and shift clinical practice through scientific exchange, education, and thought leadership.

About you:

Education Background: You are a Medical Doctor or Pharmacist with at least one year of pharmaceutical industry experience in medical affairs (field or office-based).

Pharmaceutical Industry Understanding: You bring strong scientific acumen and the ability to rapidly absorb and apply new data in evolving therapy areas. Experience in rare diseases is a real advantage. You have a solid grasp of clinical development, real-world evidence methodologies, and data gap analysis, as well as a good understanding of market access and reimbursement processes. You have a proven track record in product launches and lifecycle management, and you understand how healthcare systems evolve and what that means for new product introduction.

Customer knowledge: You're confident engaging with key opinion leader networks and healthcare stakeholder communities, and you know how to leverage omnichannel tools for effective scientific engagement.

Language Proficiency: You are fluent in both English and Turkish — written and oral

Comfortable travelling up to 20–30% of the time.

 Professional Skills That Make the Difference:

• Strong communication and presentation skills — able to convey complex science clearly to diverse audiences

• Collaborative and cross-functional mindset with the ability to influence without authority

• Solutions-oriented with resilience and adaptability in fast-moving, ambiguous environments

• Strong business acumen and strategic thinking

• Coaching and mentoring capability

• Patient-centric approach with a genuine commitment to improving health outcomes

PursueProgress. Discover Extraordinary. 

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue Progress. And let’s discover Extraordinary together. 

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! 

#LI