Early Commercial & Innovation Lead

About the Job

The strategic growth and branding team establishes marketing strategies for the brand and portfolio to manage the P&L and tactic execution, maximizing the upside and minimizing the downside. With a mission to chase the miracles of science, there is relentless focus on understanding our customers, competition and market trends to inform value creation solutions, pipeline decisions and leadership of best in class product launches. In Vaccines, you'll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.

Main Responsibilities

• Maximize cross-functional preparations for launch candidates including management of the LEX (Launch Excellence) process
• Own LEX expertise for NA Commercial and single point of contact for LEX with global functions
• Coordinate NA ComOps inputs to align on LEX plans and manage execution for novel candidates while overseeing execution of launches within brand teams
• Lead the development of business cases and US commercial positions for pipeline and business development candidates
• Perform comprehensive commercial/technical assessments of potential new product ideas and drive business case development for new assets and technologies
• Assess value add for Sanofi, support request for CAPEX & OPEX investments and secure alignment with global partners
• Steer local strategic exercise of assessing overall pipeline balance to project and anticipate strategic impact
• Bring an external perspective and scientific expertise, contributing insights and detailed execution requirements for opportunities under evaluation
• Integrate the voice of North America stakeholders into global processes such as Therapeutic Area Strategy and Strategy Planning Days
• Develop cross franchise vision on innovation and drive thinking on cross franchise topics
• Drive strategic exercises, including US portfolio evaluations versus competitors to inform pipeline needs/priorities
• Proactively identify asset and technology priorities for the long-term success of the NA market
• Stay abreast of innovation and technology developments and ensure information is in the hands of the right people at the right time
• Ensure market data and tangible insights are available for key commercial assumptions

Other Responsibilities

• Lead a team stewarding potential product/technology assessments, ensuring the team functions in line with company processes and governance bodies and managing and motivating team members
• Generate and manage budget including tracking of current year budgets and development of multi-year budgets for planning purposes
• Oversight and building alignment with brand teams executing LEX activities, integrating LEX performance for the NA portfolio
• Communication of complex information to a wide audience, from senior executives to field sales teams, within and across GBUs

About You

• At least 10 to 15 years of experience in the Pharma Industry with strategic and management responsibilities
• A robust combination of scientific and business & marketing experience
• Confirmed understanding of technological areas such as biochemistry, mechanics, digital, as well as a strong pharma & biological sciences knowledge
• Ability to lead high-value transversal projects and to communicate to Senior Management
• Strong communication, analytical, business skills as well as strong leadership capabilities and writing and presentation skills
• Strong management experience, with the ability to engage and empower a high functioning team with global footprint
• Fluent in English
• US Vaccines commercial experience
• Advanced degree in vaccines associated field
• US product launch experience in vaccines