Senior Director, U.S. Public Affairs

Role Summary

The Senior Director, U.S. Public Affairs will lead an integrated U.S. Public Affairs function encompassing public policy, government affairs, and strategic external engagement. As Servier's senior U.S. advisor on healthcare policy and the political environment, this leader will anticipate risks and opportunities, shape advocacy strategies, and ensure policy considerations are embedded in portfolio, pipeline, launch, and business planning. The role will build trusted external relationships, provide counsel to senior leadership, and lead and grow a high-performing team focused on advancing patient access, supporting innovation, and enabling sustainable growth.

Enterprise Public Affairs Strategy and Executive Counsel

• Develop and lead an integrated U.S. Public Affairs strategy aligned with enterprise priorities, portfolio and pipeline plans, launch objectives, and long-term growth goals.
• Serve as a senior advisor to U.S. leadership on healthcare policy, political dynamics, and legislative and regulatory developments.
• Translate complex external developments into clear business implications, strategic recommendations, and decision-ready action plans.
• Anticipate emerging policy risks and opportunities and develop proactive strategies to protect portfolio value and support patient access.
• Ensure policy considerations are incorporated early in asset strategy, business development assessments, launch readiness, lifecycle planning, and enterprise risk discussions.
• Provide timely counsel and leadership during significant policy, political, regulatory, or reputational developments.
• Prepare senior leaders for external engagements with policymakers, regulators, industry organizations, and other priority stakeholders.

Public Policy and Government Affairs

• Lead the development and execution of Servier's U.S. public policy and government affairs strategy at the federal and state levels.
• Define Servier's positions on priority healthcare policy issues affecting biopharmaceutical innovation, patient access, coding, coverage, reimbursement, drug pricing, and commercialization of medicines.
• Develop advocacy strategies that support a policy environment enabling patient access, scientific innovation, and sustainable business growth.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with policymakers, regulators, legislative staff, trade associations, policy organizations, and other stakeholders.
• Oversee the development of policy briefs, position statements, comment letters, issue analyses, executive updates, legislative impact assessments, and advocacy materials.
• Monitor, analyze, and interpret federal and state legislative, regulatory, reimbursement, and political developments.
• Establish effective processes for policy intelligence, issue prioritization, escalation, decision-making, and coordinated execution.
• Provide strategic direction and oversight to external consultants, advisors, contract lobbyists, and other partners.
• Ensure government affairs and advocacy activities comply with applicable laws, regulations, and company policies.

Strategic External Engagement

• Develop an integrated stakeholder-engagement strategy aligned with patient, policy, portfolio, and business objectives.
• Build strategic relationships with healthcare policy experts, industry, patient and professional organizations, medical societies, think tanks, nonprofits, and other influential stakeholders.
• Identify responsible thought-leadership opportunities that elevate Servier's voice and expertise.
• Develop stakeholder maps, engagement plans, executive briefing materials, and other resources to support coordinated external engagement.
• Partner closely with Patient Advocacy and Communications to clarify stakeholder ownership, align messaging, and present a coordinated Servier presence externally.
• Evaluate external partnerships and memberships based on strategic relevance, potential impact, resource requirements, and alignment with priorities.

Functional Leadership and Cross-Functional Integration

• Lead, coach, and develop the U.S. Public Affairs team, fostering a culture of strategic thinking, collaboration, accountability, inclusion, and high performance.
• Define the function's operating model, roles, responsibilities, capabilities, and ways of working.
• Establish the annual Public Affairs plan, budget, resource model, and performance objectives.
• Allocate internal and external resources against the issues and opportunities with the greatest potential impact.
• Build strong operating relationships and clear cross-functional governance across Market Access, Patient Advocacy, Communications, Legal, Compliance, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Corporate Strategy, Business Development, Finance, and other functions.
• Partner with Market Access to align policy and reimbursement strategies.
• Partner with Communications on policy messaging, thought leadership, executive positioning, issues preparedness, and coordinated responses.
• Partner with Patient Advocacy to ensure patient perspectives inform policy priorities and external-engagement strategies.
• Collaborate with Group Public Affairs to support alignment between U.S. policy priorities and global positions.
• Promote consistent, enterprise-wide understanding of priority policy issues and Servier's positions and response strategies.