Vaccine Activation Manager

Job title: Vaccine Activation Manager

• Location: Jeddah - KSA (Remote working and travel expected around all Saudi main cities Riyadh, & Dammam

About the job

As Vaccine Activation Manager within our Vaccines team, you'll play a central role in introducing new immunization therapies into regional vaccination calendars and executing strategies that meet Public Health needs across Saudi Arabia. You'll build constructive partnerships with Healthcare Professionals, regional health departments, and technical bodies responsible for vaccine procurement - helping protect lives through vaccine prevention at scale. Ready to get started?

Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you'll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.

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:

• Achieve allocated sales targets within assigned Public, Institutions & Private accounts while successfully implementing new vaccine launches across your territories.
• Drive market share growth and vaccine coverage rate (VCR) enhancement initiatives through strategic execution and entrepreneurial thinking.
• Execute customer-facing activities aligned with the Market & Customer Operations (MCO) strategy, implementing regional operational plans to improve vaccine coverage.
• Promote evidence-based scientific information to Healthcare Professionals, KOLs, P&T Committee members, formulary decision makers, and technical bodies across MOH, institutions, and private sectors.
• Build alignment and connect stakeholders across different departments within Health Authorities to accelerate guideline development and immunization protocol implementation.
• Manage stakeholder mapping, planning, and engagement for assigned key accounts, navigating complex decision-making structures within Health Authorities.
• Lead pre-tender identification of optimal solutions and post-tender implementation of vaccine purchasing processes to ensure sustainable growth for Sanofi.

About you

• Experience: 3-5 years of experience in pharmaceutical or vaccine sales/account management with deep understanding of public health systems and institutional procurement processes
• Soft and technical skills: Strong customer orientation with proven ability to build long-term relationships with KOLs across all health sectors, including hospital environments. Excellent analytical skills to evaluate market data, clinical studies, health economics, and competitive landscapes - translating insights into targeted strategies that achieve business goals.
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills with high ability to navigate different personal styles and inspire confidence both internally and externally. Proactive problem-solver with entrepreneurial mindset, agility in decision-making, and ability to think innovatively and work collaboratively in lean teams. Strong drive to achieve results while sharing information transparently, with resilience, persistence, and credibility in complex environments
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy or a related field
• Languages: Fluency in English is required; Arabic is highly preferred

Why choose us?

• Work at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology.
• Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare.
• Make the impossible possible for millions by contributing to breakthrough moments like the world's first RSV toddler vaccine.
• Develop your career with access to mentoring, international mobility programs, and opportunities to grow across four continents.
• Act as a true Public Health partner, driving meaningful impact in vaccine prevention across Saudi Arabia's key cities.
• Thrive in a transformational environment that values bold thinking, collaboration, and proximity with customers while delivering business results.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

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.

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

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.

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