Job title: Immunology Alliance Franchise Medical Head Iberia
- Location: Barcelona, Madrid
About the job
As Immunology Alliance Franchise Medical Head Iberia within our Medical Team you’ll lead the Medical and scientific (non-promotional) strategy for the Iberian immunology portfolio/therapeutic area in close partnership with the other functional franchise leads and in alignment with the overall medical strategy.
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:
- Provide medical/scientific support for KOL management, market access aspects, clinical development, life cycle management and commercial activities.
- Drive professional relationships with carefully selected ME, decision makers and health-care organizations
- Collect insights from both internal and external Customers (KOLs, Scientific Societies, Patient Associations, Payers, …) to understand unmet medical needs as well as to identify relevant data gaps and evidence opportunities for our current product portfolio.
- Design/execute projects for data generation to support the development of new products and/or new indications, to close data gaps in our existing knowledge base for our products, to support the continuous market access and benefit/risk analysis.
- Ensure integration of clinical plan and marketing needs into regulatory and market access planning.
- Develop medical insights that translate into the most appropriate use of the company’s medicines and devices for the benefit of patients.
- Enhance patient-centric approach integration in each product/device/service.
- Proactively identify and manage medical risks (Benefit/Risk, RMPs).
- Ensure implementation of ethics, transparency, quality and compliance of medical activities within assigned therapeutic area
People Leadership Responsibilities:
- Provide day-to-day coaching, mentoring, and professional development for team members.
- Identify and address capability gaps in the team, with a particular focus on influencing and negotiation skills, stakeholder management, healthcare policy knowledge, and evolving ways of working.
- Foster a high-performance team culture aligned with Sanofi's values: Aim Higher, Act for Patients, Be Bold, and Lead Together.
- Manage team workload effectively, ensuring sustainable performance in a high-demand environment.
About you
Experience:
- Demonstrated proficiency in pharmaceutical industry, preferably in Medical Affairs
- Strong background in managing teams
- Experience in launch excellence processes within a multinational pharmaceutical company
- Background in or exposure to rare diseases, immunology, oncology, or neurology therapeutic areas — aligned with Sanofi Spain's key pipeline priorities.
- Experience working in a matrix organization with multiple GBUs and cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience leading and developing teams, with a demonstrated ability to build high-performing, engaged groups.
Technical and Soft Skills:
- Strong business acumen to create compelling and effective Medical strategies that serves to benefit patients, HCPs, and other key external stakeholders
- Ability to understand and effectively communicate clinical studies, both interventional and observational
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing, and networking skills with an ability to work as part of a cross-functional and multicultural team
- Ability to successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously; plan, prioritize and implement actions using a self-dependent and structured working style
- Ability to effectively engage with key external stakeholders and build long-term partnerships with Medical authorities, hospitals, physicians/specialists, opinion leaders and pharmacists
- Ability to embrace innovation and analyse information and emerging trends, including social, policy and access-related information, incorporate them into the MCO Medical Plans
Education:
- University degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine, Health Economics, or a related field; advanced degree (MSc, MBA, PhD) strongly preferred
Languages:
- Fluency in Spanish and English (written and spoken); additional languages are a plus
Why choose us?
Specialty Care is Sanofi's largest Global Business Unit (GBU) and a global leader in specialty pharmaceuticals. We are built for complexity and emerging modalities, with a focus on transforming patient lives through innovative medicines across four key therapeutic areas:
- Immunology - Industry-leading portfolio including Dupixent, our transformative blockbuster therapy
- Neurology - Advancing neuroimmunology and neuroscience research
- Oncology - Developing innovative cancer treatments and immuno-oncology solutions
- Rare Diseases & Rare Blood Disorders - Addressing unmet medical needs in rare conditions
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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, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.
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The salary range for this position is :€100.000,00 - €133.333
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.
