Role Summary
The Commercialization Excellence Lead is part of the Sanofi Integrated Launch Capabilities (SILC) organization, focused on defining and maintaining global commercialization standards across commercial, access and medical functions. The role drives cross-functional collaboration to identify and implement best-in-class standards that support successful product launches and lifecycle management. It reports to the SILC Head. Location: Cambridge, MA.
Responsibilities
- Define global commercialization standards of excellence across critical areas such as marketing/brand strategy, market development, market shaping, omnichannel excellence, and GTM design
- Ensure best practices and guidelines are consistently applied across all products and regions to deliver successful launches, performance, and lifecycle management
- Leverage insights from internal launch data points and external benchmarks to continuously refresh standards
- Foster internal cross-functional collaboration with Marketing and Sales, Medical, Market Access and Corporate Affairs to inform commercialization standards and share best practices
- Build and maintain stakeholder relationships to ensure alignment across the scope of commercialization
- Collect and disseminate strategic insights to senior management to drive informed decision-making and actionable business insights for commercialization strategies
- Serve as the interface between functions to ensure smooth execution of commercialization initiatives and develop business cases when necessary
Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to lead a brand or business unit within the pharmaceutical industry, including proven experience in marketing strategy, brand positioning, product launches, and go-to-market strategy
- Track record of leading cross-functional teams and partnering with key stakeholders across commercial, medical, and analytics functions
- Expertise in optimizing brand performance by partnering with and supporting the business in data-driven insights generation, decision making, and commercial excellence activities
- Experience leading organization-wide commercialization efforts and ensuring business alignment between stakeholders
- Brand or launch experience in the US market, or in international markets specific to specialty launches
- Languages: Fluent English; speaking one or several languages is a plus
Education
- Advanced degree in Business Analytics, Market Research, Data Science, or a related field