Job title: Global Therapeutic Area Head, Respiratory
Main ResponsibilitiesGlobal Strategy & Execution Excellence
- Develop and own the global brand strategy, positioning, and go-to-market plan for the Respiratory portfolio across Asthma and COPD, ensuring full alignment with Sanofi's vision, alliance commitments, and market opportunities
- Co-create bold short-, mid-, and long-term strategic ambitions together with key markets, alliance partners, and external stakeholders, translating deep insights into a compelling and differentiated value proposition
- Facilitate regular strategy reviews, alignment forums, and knowledge-sharing sessions with local markets to drive global-to-local coherence and accelerate in-market performance
- Develop global campaigns, best practice playbooks, and modular content that empower local markets to execute with excellence and speed
- Develop targeted, market-relevant initiatives to address and dismantle barriers to biologic uptake in COPD, ensuring Sanofi is positioned as the category-defining leader in this space
- Drive a differentiation strategy across both Asthma and COPD that ensures a compelling, distinct, and leading value proposition
Irresistible Team & Culture Ambition
- Attract, develop, and retain world-class talent and lead a high-performing cross-functional team
- Act as a member of the Global Immunology Alliance Leadership Team, demonstrating enterprise leadership through best practice sharing, mentoring, and active contribution to franchise-level initiatives
- Create and articulate an inspiring vision for the organization that engages teams across functions, geographies, and levels - and brings them along on the journey
Commercial Leadership & P&L
- Own full P&L accountability for the global Respiratory franchise, leading strategic and financial planning to maximize portfolio value across both indications
- Own, develop, and regularly update the global revenue forecast across markets, ensuring projections are grounded in rigorous analysis and aligned with strategic priorities
- Own and manage the global commercial operating budget, ensuring ROI-driven investment allocation and disciplined resource management
- Develop and track KPIs to measure the impact of global and local/regional commercial activities, holding the franchise accountable to ambitious performance standards
Pipeline & Life Cycle Management
- Collaborate closely with R&D, Medical Affairs, Clinical Program Management, and alliance partners to develop a life cycle strategy aligned with the Respiratory franchise vision and long-term leadership ambition
- Represent the global commercial perspective in Life Cycle Management governance and R&D clinical development programs, ensuring commercial viability and patient relevance are embedded in development decisions
- Lead commercial strategy development, conduct commercial assessments, and support the development of robust business cases for pipeline and life cycle opportunities
- Serve as a key voice in Alliance governance and EXCOM-level discussions, representing the franchise's commercial interests with clarity, credibility, and strategic conviction
About YouExperience
- 15+ years of progressive experience in biopharmaceutical commercialization, with a track record of delivering exceptional results in complex, matrixed, global environments
- Demonstrated Marketing leadership experience at Global and Local level (preferably with US commercial experience), including ability to build marketing strategies, experience in launch, brand planning, omnichannel and Forecast/ Budget/ Resource allocation
- Mastery of cross functional collaboration with R&D, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Public Affairs with a proven biologics launch experience and demonstrated ability to collaboratively drive market shaping activities and evidence generation
- External stakeholder engagement: fluent in advancing Customers & Patient engagement, at a Country and Global level
- Experience in Respiratory would be a strong differentiator
- Alliance management experience and exposure to executive committee (EXCOM) governance is a significant advantage
- Demonstrated experience in leading and inspiring teams as well as in attracting, developing and retaining top talents
- Strong P&L management experience, including global revenue forecasting, budget ownership, and ROI-driven investment decision-making
Leadership skills
- Strategic thinking: ability to disrupt status quo with innovation while remaining pragmatic and focused on priorities. When under pressure, ability to bring others along to explain how strategic ideas fit into the larger context, and approach challenges thoroughly with a broad view, considering different potential outcomes. Be organizationally astute and know how to manage politics with integrity.
- Growth Accelerator: A high level of comfort taking calculated risks, pushing limits, and stimulating new opportunities - both for the franchise and for the broader enterprise. Driven to transform the industry, not just compete within it.
- People Leadership: ability to lead through influence, inspire teams, engage and leverage everyone's strengths while being highly self-aware. Set high standards and expectations, communicates proactively, collaborative and approachable and ability to provide meaningful feedback, coaching and support.
- Relationships and Influence: Culturally savvy and adaptable, with the ability to operate effectively across diverse cultural environments. Effective stakeholder management, politically astute and role models teamwork and collaboration
- Result orientation: driven to develop and execute optimal strategy meeting corporate objectives, while creating pragmatic solutions. Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to adapt with agility, take calculated risks and anticipate potential issues.
Education
- Bachelor's degree required, preferably in life sciences, marketing or business
- MBA or other advanced degree strongly preferred
Languages
Why Choose Us- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
- Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness program
The salary range for this position is:
$293,250.00 - $423,583.33
All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
