Global Public Affairs Head - Sickle Cell Disease and Cross-Rare Initiatives

Job Title: Global Public Affairs Head - Sickle Cell Disease and Cross-Rare Initiatives

Location: Morristown, NJ Cambridge, MA

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.

Sanofi (NYSE: SNY) is a leading global integrated healthcare company that discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions to improve the lives of everyone. With 100,000 dedicated professionals in more than 100 countries, Sanofi is devoted to advancing healthcare around the world. Sanofi is structured in 4 Global Business Units (GBUs): Specialty Care, General Medicine, Vaccines, and Consumer Healthcare.

Global Public Affairs (PA) is an essential partner in the successful execution of the company’s strategy. Our purpose is to create the conditions that promote scientific innovation and enable sustainable access to Sanofi Specialty Care portfolio. We do this by engaging with patients, scientific associations, policy makers and other relevant stakeholders to shape the policy environment for specialty care and create the sustainable conditions for access to innovation.  Our ambition is to be a forward leaning, industry leading and trailblazing Global PA organization that is actively shaping the future health landscape, changing the conversation on the value of innovation and building bridges. The Global PA team for Sanofi Specialty Care is organized by Therapeutic Areas (TA) and provides support to each TA across geographies.

Company-paid relocation benefits will be offered for this position.

The Global Public Affairs Head, Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) and cross-rare initiatives serves as a PA expert to the Rare Diseases (RD) franchise.  He/ She works closely with the Global brand teams (GBT) and Global Project Team (GPT) in developing 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.

The Global Public Affairs Head SCD and cross-rare initiatives is responsible for developing and executing global public affairs plans to deliver on the strategic objectives of the franchise, with a focus on pipeline (e.g., rilzabrutinib) and future in-line assets. The candidate will also lead selected cross-rare initiatives, executing on the global public affairs priorities and plans for rare diseases (e.g., diagnosis).

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:

• Drive implementation of a robust Global PA strategy to achieve the vision for the franchise in prioritized markets, establishing the company’s commitment to the SCD community, supporting high priority business objectives, and preparing the environment (market shaping) for significant launches and/or uptake of new therapies.

• Through scientific exchanges, evidence generation, community engagement, advocacy development, policy-shaping, and other high impact public affairs initiatives, address unmet needs across the patient journey, including patient access to treatment, and elevate the goals for SCD care.

• Manage strong relationships with patient groups and key stakeholders to ensure that the “voice of the patient” is central in shaping business strategy.

• Ensure external community input is considered/incorporated into programs currently in development and/or life cycle improvements.

• Cultivate strategic multi-stakeholder partnerships to bring needed solutions to patients in line with the priorities of the franchise and consistent with overall company position.

• Understand important trends likely to impact business and public affairs strategy – conduct policy analyses, monitor and analyze potential threats, opportunities from external developments and communicate them effectively to the franchise leadership.

• Serve as strategic advisor and