Field Scientific Director - Dermatology

Job Title: Field Scientific Director - Dermatology

Location: US Remote/Field

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.

The purpose of the Field Scientific Director position is to develop the TA specific strategy and tactical plan for engagement with the scientific community and to oversee the effective and efficient operation of the entire MSL organization, while ensuring that the MSL employee engage in substantive scientific exchange. Field Scientific Director is responsible for strong team capability development and FBM organization team.

This role reports to the Sr. Medical Director responsible for the Franchise, and has strong ties to the Field Medical Head, to maximize implementation of the field strategy.

The main objectives are to:

• Coordinate traversal partnership with internal stakeholders to develop the most effective and efficient strategic plan to interface with external Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs).

• Establish the team’s long-range Medical strategic plan (including resource deployment) to determine course of action/tactics in a timely manner to meet life cycle management strategies meeting business objectives.

• Guide capability initiatives, including proactive competency gap analysis, contributing to content and curriculum design, conducting training classes where necessary, and monitoring data systems.

• Guide the management of MSL capabilities and expected performance through MSL leader’s coaching, training, and development to ensure excellent execution of their role and achieving strategic goals.

• Support the generation and communication of scientific and medical insights to internal stakeholders, develop/execute strategic and tactical Medical Engagement Plans, and manage MSL resources and budgets.

• Partner with Field Medical Head, Sr. Medical Director, Medical Directors, and other internal partners to manage high-level regional stakeholder relationships, contribute to medical engagement planning, and oversee the MSL budget.

• Identify and support MSL leadership on opportunities for innovation and field excellence initiatives to differentiate Sanofi medical and help achieve and exceed department objectives

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:

• Leads and Implements TA specific MSL Strategy Development

• Ensures clarity and alignment of the roles and responsibilities of the MSL function across internal and external stakeholders.

• Analyses and uses qualitative and quantitative information to understand the critical tasks and resources, including staff, to achieve the desired objectives

• Supports resource planning for the MSL field force for pre-launch and life-cycle management of products.

• Attends cross-functional and transversal meetings as needed to collaborate with internal stakeholders that have an impact on MSL strategy

• Proactively identifies best-practice and sharing across geographies of MSL activities.

• Ensures job descriptions evolve for territory MSL roles effectively match country launch plans or Medical/ Policy plans for life-cycle products and global guidance/ policies on MSL roles & responsibilities.

• Ensures appropriate MSL annual planning, objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are utilized and support MSL managers in monitoring these objectives and KPIs

• Co-Develops recruiting plan for team and build business case and secure approval for head count changes

• Support and engage with the TA Heads and Field Medical Strategy and Operations Director towards MSL effectiveness measures / gap analyses and aligned training & education curriculum.

• Identifies and communicate synergies within the Sanofi gr