Lead Medical Expert, Business Operations

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Our Team

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.

An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance.

We are building for the long term. We bring people together – many of them in our four hub locations around the world - which simplify processes, break down barriers and modernize the way we work in Sanofi.

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, with four global hubs. Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements. Digitalization - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain.

About the job

The Lead Medical Expert role seated in the Medical Business Operations will be a pivotal role supporting the global & local teams for the entire portfolio, via innovation, content development, literature review and insights preparation, and operational execution, and cross-functional collaboration within Medical and Communication Business Operations. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in therapeutic area knowledge, strong leadership skills, and a commitment to advancing medical knowledge and patient care.

Main responsibilities

Provide internal medical and scientific expertise for medical affairs programs we execute in business operations

Internal support for processes related to clinical trials and research initiatives

Provide ongoing support to internal stakeholders

Support local clinical development teams and clinical study units facilitating efficient participant enrolment

Support the implementation of medical strategies

Review and contribute to scientific communications

Collaborate and review scientific content creation from Medical hubs to ensure scientific accuracy and elevate the impact of our scientific communications for launches

 Develop and execute plans to deliver medical education initiatives aligned with the global medical objectives

Serve as a scientific center of expertise and point of contact for Business Operations Medical team  

Collaborate with local medical and commercial teams in allocated markets

Provide contributions and oversight to content development and lifecycle management by mapping and requesting the content needs following global franchise and country medical roadmaps

To localize and customize medical content generated by global teams

To ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, internal policies, and industry standards

Collaborate cross-functionally with other groups across clinical development, commercial, regulatory, and field medical teams and provide clear medical guidance

Performance

Maintain and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines and ensure timely and high-quality delivery of medical and scientific content

Strong analytical skills to assess information and emerging trends, including social, policy, and access-related information, and incorporate them into medical plans

Strategic Leadership

Drive innovation in medical approaches, methodologies, and content to enhance team impact and efficiency

Establish and maintain key performance indicators to measure team effectiveness and impact

Scientific Excellence

Serve as senior scientific expert for Business Operations team members, providing guidance on complex medical and scientific matters

Support on the implementation of frameworks for Integrated Evidence Generation Plans (IEGP), ensuring strategic alignment with brand objectives

Ensure scientific and ethical integrity across all team activities

Direct the development and execution of strategic publication plans to effectively disseminate key scientific findings according the Integrated Scientific Publication Plan coming from GBUs

Establish governance processes for Business Operations content review, ensuring high-quality medical review of commercial content and compliance with regulatory requirements

Lead and oversee content developed from medical tower transversally to ensure contribution to brand strategy

Evaluation and decision-making process for compassionate use requests

Cross-functional Collaboration

Build and maintain strategic relationships with global and local GBU teams across clinical development, commercial, regulatory, and field medical functions

Collaborate with other functional heads to ensure integrated approaches to medical strategy and execution

People Management

Maintain effective relationships with the end stakeholders (Medical, regulatory, pharmacovigilance, commercial and R&D community) within the disease area

Interact effectively with stakeholders across all departments within BO

Constantly assist the medical regulatory writing and scientific writing team in developing knowledge and sharing expertise

Foster a culture of scientific excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement

Key Involvement in Decision-Making Process

Strategic Planning – Support medical affairs strategies and priorities for the disease area

Resource Allocation - Determine allocation of team resources to maximize impact

Content Approval - Final approval authority for medical content within area of responsibility

Team Development - Make decisions regarding Medical BO team structure, roles, and development plans

Cross-functional Collaboration - Represent Medical BO when needed in key cross-functional decision forums

About you

Experience

Minimum 8 years of experience in international pharmaceutical companies

Demonstrated experience in medical affairs leadership roles at local and global level

Proven track record in leading teams and managing people

Experience in brand planning, evidence generation, content development, and medical communications

Experience in building and maintaining expert relationships

Skills

Demonstrated leadership capabilities with ability to inspire and develop teams

Strategic thinking and decision-making skills

Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing, and networking skills

Advanced stakeholder management abilities across multiple organizational levels

Ability to navigate complex organizational structures and drive alignment

Change management and organizational development expertise

Advanced problem-solving and analytical skills

Medical operational excellence, time, and risk management skills

Strategic planning and execution capabilities

Project and program management expertise

Budget management and resource optimization abilities

Excellent technical (medical) editing and writing skills

Education/Qualifications

Medical Degree required

Specialization in any disease area where Sanofi operates is a plus

Additional business or management qualifications are a plus

Languages

Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

Additional languages beneficial based on regional responsibilities

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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.

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