Medical Franchise Lead (Dermatology and Respiratory)

Job description

About the Opportunity

As a Medical Franchise Lead you will be responsible for leading the medical affairs function within their defined therapy area (Dermatology and Respiratory) across the UK and Ireland. You will lead a large and strong team focusing on Dupixent. This is a strategic role that reports directly to the Medical Head Sanofi Genzyme.

About Sanofi Business Unit

Sanofi Genzyme benefits from small pharma attitude and agility alongside the large presence, influence and respect of Sanofi Global. Within the Immunology Franchise you will find a friendly and supportive culture, amongst a group of hand-picked, committed, high performing individuals. Although Sanofi Genzyme is new to Immunology therapy areas, innovative products and an extensive life cycle management plan demonstrate our commitment to this area.

Sanofi Genzyme are the specialty care global business unit of Sanofi, dedicated to high quality support of patients with rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, cancer and immune diseases.

Key responsibilities

·  Leading the provision of appropriate medical input to the BU (UK and IE) within their therapy areas so that Marketing, Sales and Promotion, provision of Medical Information, and support to Pharmacovigilance and Regulatory Affairs is conducted to high standards consistent with current legal and ethical considerations and Corporate policy
·  Providing leadership, management and development to the Medical Advisors, Scientific Advisors and Medical Science Liaisons within the BU aligning talent and succession planning across Franchises
·  Leading the Therapy Evidence Generation Programme to meet the local business, regulatory, access and ethical requirements as well as influencing the global medical affairs therapy strategy to support the local requirements
·  Overseeing all KOL interactions within the therapy area to ensure appropriate engagements in line with KOL needs, compliance requirements and ethical considerations
·  Leading ethical compliance within the therapy areas working collaboratively with compliance, transparency and other divisions to ensure a common approach to all customer facing code requirements
·  Providing medical support to other functions in the aligned therapy teams where necessary eg patient engagements, HTA submissions

About You

To excel in this role you will need to have:

·  UK Registered and Licensed Medical Practitioner actively engaged in revalidation
·  With or working towards a higher Medical Qualification (Normally Membership or Fellowship of a Medical Royal College or Faculty)
·  Minimum clinical experience of having completed Core Medical Training
·  At least 2 years Pharmaceutical Industry experience covering the leadership of a broad set of medical activities including clinical trials, medical affairs, compliance and external engagement
·  Experience of setting, balancing and managing a budget to target
·  Ability to lead, manage and develop teams
·  Detailed knowledge of Regulatory guidelines, Medicines Act and the Human Medicines Regulations, ABPI Code of Practice and standard operating procedures, and experience of their implementation within the business environment including final signatory status
·  Principles and practice of medical affairs including clinical trial design, management, analysis and reporting, including GCP
·  Knowledge of the structure and management of the NHS

It would be advantageous to have (not essential):

·  Specialist accreditation and/or be undertaking Pharmaceutical Medicine Specialist Training
·  Knowledge of specific products and related therapeutic areas, including key opinion leaders
·  Experience within immunology

What Sanofi can offer you:

·  A role where you are instrumental to creating best practice and as the organisation grows, you can too
·  We offer a generous package including flexible benefits, and are committed to helping you have a healthy work-life balance throughout your career with us
·  The role is office based in Guildford. Moving to Reading in July 2019
·  This is a full time role and we support flexible working

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and is embedded in our Core Values. We respect the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our employees, patients and customers.

About Sanofi

Empower Life Everyday

At Sanofi we work across human health from vaccines to rare diseases, and consumer healthcare. This creates opportunities to work across different areas to build a diverse and exciting career. Sanofi has the capabilities and resources to support your aspirations to fulfill your ambitions and be the best you can be.

Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top 3 innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we're not there to try to solve everybody's problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference.

The values we are live by are teamwork, courage, respect and integrity.

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.