Health Value Translation Lead

Role Summary

Lead Health Value Translation initiatives across drug development from research through registration, shaping patient-focused strategies and ensuring integration across global and local programs. Develop Patient Disease Strategies (PDS), drive external partnerships, and leverage real-world data and digital tools to inform R&D decisions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and patient advocacy groups to accelerate program timelines while maintaining patient relevance.

Responsibilities

• Represent PID & HVT at the global project team, ensuring effective integration of team members across milestones, decision-making forums, and sub-teams.
• Develop and implement innovative Patient Disease Strategies (PDS) starting in research and carrying through all development stages. An effective PDS must demonstrate patient relevant asset differentiation, program acceleration, awareness and access of external stakeholder (including patients for study participation) to Sanofi’s best in class science.
• Drive pre-clinical programs through registration, ensuring the asset meets stakeholder expectations (patients, payers, regulators).
• Identify and integrate external engagement activities with relevant Patient Advocacy Groups in, and across, key countries.
• Build internal collaborations with cross-functional teams to integrate the PDS into global and local strategies.
• Lead external partnerships to increase scientific innovation and improve R&D decision-making.
• Lead innovative value development through systematic assessment of digital capacities and real-world data.
• Contribute to regulatory and payer submission dossiers.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of drug development experience spanning preclinical to registration (required)
• Several years of experience in clinical development within Pharma
• Basic experience in Real World investigations and knowledge of patient preference research
• Understanding of payers’ environment in key markets and of evolving external patient, regulatory, and payer landscape
• Languages: Verbal and written fluency in English

Skills

• Strategic innovator focused on impact, able to conceptualize bold ideas and simplify complex problems through innovative thinking.
• Cross-functional leader who combines strategic vision with hands-on leadership across diverse teams and disciplines.
• Strong analytical skills, open and honest team player who excels in navigating trade-offs
• Familiarity with Digital Tools, Large Language Models, Social Media Listening, etc.

Education

• Minimum of a Bachelor of Science combined with a relevant Master’s degree (Business, Health Policy, Biology or related) is required. MD, PharmD, PhD or other postgraduate-level degree preferred.