Head – Scientific Engagement & Communication – General Medicine and Vaccines

Job title: Head – Scientific Engagement & Communication (General Medicine and Vaccines)

• Hiring Manager: Head – Scientific Communications, Medical Information, Graphic Studio & Creativity

• Location: Hyderabad, Barcelona

• % of travel expected: As per business need

• Job type: Permanent and Full time

About the job

 Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations two years ago, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence.

Our Team

Sanofi Global Hub (SGH) is an internal Sanofi resource organization based in India and is setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions. SGH strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, Globally.

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

1.Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs.

2.Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements.

3.Digitalisation - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

Main responsibilities:

The overall purpose and main responsibilities are listed below: To create synergies and provide functional and operational leadership to the Scientific Engagement and Communications activities for General Medicine and Vaccines operations across various therapeutic areas (TAs) and processes so that cost savings ≥10 mil euros are achieved with deliveries optimized through multi-layered teams.
 

People:

• Lead team of writers (junior to Group Lead) in content creation along with corresponding operations team (content enhancement/copyediting)/operations team, including but not limited to project specialists (junior to Project Manager) or similar roles

• Coach and develop Group/Team Lead, expert and senior writers or similar roles (on content /methods /processes)

• Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders (medical scientific community) across TA(s)/GBU(s) and products – with an end objective to develop education and communication content as per requirements

• Ensure new technologies are leveraged for multilayered team management and development: Talent review, recruitment, succession planning, preparing and validating KPIs and metric
 

Performance:

• Act as strategic thought partner to multiple TAs across GBU(s)

• Develop and maintain expertise in multiple TA(s) and on key trends/developments in the industry

• Provide inputs for publication and communication plans/publication and medical education materials/other strategic deliverables, and ensure delivery as per plan (agreed timelines and quality)

• Lead and support development of tools, technology, and processes in order to constantly improve quality and productivity
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Process:

• Support delivery of projects in terms of resourcing, quality, timeliness, efficiency, and high technical standards for deliveries made by the scientific communications group, including scientific documents and clinical/medical reports

• Contribute to overall quality enhancement by ensuring high scientific standards for the output produced by the scientific communications group

• Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with any and all applicable regulatory standards

• Ensure all publication and medical education deliverables are delivered as per agreed timelines and quality

• Ensure creation and development of tools, technology, and processes to constantly improve quality and productivity

• Ensure advanced training delivery tools and techniques are leveraged thereby enhancing the effectiveness of training delivery
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Stakeholder:

• Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders (medical scientific community) with an end objective to develop education and communication content as per requirement

• Partner with Medical Leads, Scientific Communication Directors and other global or local teams to implement governance in place

• Ensure design and implementation of overall plan of action (CAPA) basis stakeholder feedback and improve stakeholder connect and team performance

• Work with selected vendor partners or build internal capability to deliver the required deliverables or solutions as per defined process to meet business question

• Interact effectively with external stakeholders and peer groups from industry to build network among peer groups

About you

• Experience: >12 years of experience in the pharmaceutical/healthcare industry, or academia; and proven track record of managing a multi-layered team of ≥10 members for at least 2 years.

• Education: Advanced degree (Master’s degree and above) in life sciences/pharmacy/similar discipline or medical degree

• Soft skills: Stakeholder management; communication skills; people management; and ability to influence and negotiate

• Technical skills: Relevant training/experience with proficiency in the following areas: Scientific communications, Stakeholder management, Project management. Therapeutic area/domain knowledge exposure – Proficient in multiple therapy areas/domains under GBU(s) and experience of Publication planning, is desirable.

• Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)
 

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, colour, 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!

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, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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