Senior Director, Medical Evidence and Outcomes Research

Job title: Senior Director, Medical Evidence and Outcomes Research

Location: Remote, US (Cambridge, MA / Morristown, NJ)

About the job

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs. 

Job Summary:

The Medical Evidence and Outcomes Research Lead will serve as a Center of Excellence for managing local evidence generation partnerships across the North America Specialty Care portfolio.  Working closely with key stakeholders across Global and US medical units, clinical development, RWE, HEVA, Access Strategy, and commercial functions, this role will identify and prioritize local evidence needs, ensure strategic alignment between local and global evidence generation plans, and serve as a resource to field medical teams and medical units as a subject matter consultant on RWD/RWE related needs/projects to drive consistent, high-quality implementation of evidence generation initiatives across the Specialty Care portfolio.

This role will also serve as a key scientific liaison to external stakeholders, identifying and developing credible partnerships with payer/population healthcare decision-makers (HCDMs), health outcomes research organizations, and academic collaborators that aim to inform healthcare decision making, improving patient access and outcomes.

This position plays a critical role in bridging local and global evidence generation priorities, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and advancing the organization's ability to generate, communicate, and leverage meaningful real-world evidence and outcomes research collaborations that contribute to clinical value proposition and improve gaps in care.

The Medical Evidence and Outcomes Research Lead will report to the Head, Medical Value and Outcomes as a member of the North America Specialty Care Medical organization.

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:

1. Evidence Generation

• Contribute to the design and development of integrated evidence generation plans, including the identification and prioritization of local evidence needs important to HCDMs that are aligned with strategic imperatives

• Serve as an internal expert for evidence generation methodologies, vendors, and data assets, providing strategic input on the implementation of local evidence generation plans and projects

• Establish clear, consistent processes for local evidence generation planning and implementation consistent with global governance to ensure quality, compliance, and alignment across key internal stakeholders

• Develop and implement processes to appropriately monitor contributions, performance, and impact of local evidence generation efforts across NA medical teams

• Serve as a source of expertise for developing RWE studies to support US labeling requirements

• Align priorities and resources to support local capability development in evidence generation

• Facilitate internal networking and partnership to optimize awareness and utilization of available internal resources

• Ensure adherence to all appropriate compliance and governance processes

• As a RWD methodological expert, support medical care gap development as needed

2. External RWE & Health Outcomes Research Collaborations

• Identify, develop, and maintain credible scientific partnerships with key external stakeholders, including payer/population healthcare decision-makers, health outcomes research centers/organizations, and academic collaborators

• Facilitate the development and placement of appropriate evidence-based disease management, health outcomes, and population health management studies aligned with medical brand strategy and in collaboration with relevant internal stakeholders, consistent with all applicable policies and procedures

• Serve as a medical expert to guide development of quality improvement initiatives and lead the quality improvement review process

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