Head, Dermatology and Immunology Policy

Job Title: Head, Dermatology and Immunology Policy 

Location: Washington, DC Cambridge, MA 

About the Job

Global Public Affairs (PA) is an essential partner in the successful execution of the company’s strategy. As a forward-leaning organization, our ambition is to create the conditions that promote scientific innovation and enable sustainable patient access to the Sanofi Specialty Care portfolio. The Global PA team for Sanofi Specialty Care is organized by Therapeutic Areas (TA) and provides support to each TA across key geographies.

The Head, Dermatology and Immunology Policy (referred to as “Head” hereafter) serves as a PA expert to the Global Alliance Immunology Franchise and Global Sanofi Immunology Franchise. S/he functions as a critical partner to the Dermatology Therapeutic Area Leads across both franchises, leading the disease-level market-shaping strategy and policy prioritization efforts for the company in conjunction with key markets and corporate stakeholders. S/he is considered the franchise lead on global disease-related external engagement, coalition-building and thought leadership. S/he will also oversee and fulfill key asset and indication market-shaping needs, with the support of the GPA Lead, Dermatology.

In addition to dermatology-focused leadership, the Head will also serve as the GPA Immunology team’s key liaison with Corporate Public Affairs and Corporate Policy to advance policy priorities and address system-level market shaping issues with a substantial impact on the success of the company’s global Immunology franchises.

Global public affairs strategies to meet key business objectives. He/She collaborates with the Local PA teams to ensure relevance of global strategy, alignment on resource prioritization, and consistency in execution.

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main Responsibilities:

The Head, Dermatology and Immunology Policy, is responsible for developing and executing a global public affairs strategy to deliver on the critical market-shaping objectives for the global Immunology franchises, focused on addressing dermatology as well as cross-cutting, “above disease state” policy, market-shaping and patient access issues.

• Lead development and execution of Global PA strategy for dermatology in collaboration with alliance partners, key global functions and local affiliates, and with a focus on advancing dermatology-related policy prioritization, supporting high-priority dermatology-related business objectives and preparing the ecosystem for significant launches in the dermatology space.

• Build expertise and knowledge of immunology and associated dermatological disease states within the global PA community.

• Continually share insights on patient community needs and expectations with the internal team and be seen as a trusted and knowledgeable resource on patient-facing issues in the dermatology space.

• Reinforce and demonstrate through action Sanofi’s long-standing position as a leader in innovation and patient commitment in dermatology and immunology more broadly.

• Understand and identify important trends likely to impact business strategy – monitor and analyze potential threats, opportunities from external developments and communicate them effectively to the Franchise leadership as well as provide counsel on how to address.

• Collaborate with internal cross-functional partners (commercial, market access, medical, regulatory, R&D, commercial) to engage in relevant policy, guidelines, and decision-making efforts related to optimizing patient care delivery and ensuring appropriate access to advanced therapies.

• Serve as internal global lead on developing strategic partnerships with key stakeholders and p