Job Title: Lead, US Hematology Pipeline Commercialization
Main ResponsibilitiesCulture and Leadership- Embody Sanofi's Take the Lead values: Aim Higher, Act for Patients, Be Bold, and Lead Together.
- Bring an enterprise mindset and actively apply lessons, capabilities, and best practices from across Sanofi.
- Create clarity, alignment, and momentum across complex cross-functional teams.
- Demonstrate sound judgment, personal accountability, integrity, and a strong commitment to patients.
US Commercial Strategy, Launch and Market Development- Lead development of the US commercial strategy for Wayrilz in wAIHA and sickle cell disease.
- Contribute to the US commercialization strategy for Wayrilz in IgG4-related disease.
- Translate patient, provider, access, competitive, and market insights into clear strategic choices and commercial priorities.
- Define the critical success factors for each indication, including target patient populations, treatment positioning, customer segments, evidence needs, access considerations, and market development requirements.
- Evaluate competitive scenarios, market evolution, treatment pathways, and potential barriers to adoption.
- Establish launch readiness plans, key milestones, decision points, organizational requirements, and cross-functional accountabilities.
- Advocate for appropriate pre-launch investments, including competitive intelligence, primary and secondary market research, disease education, patient insight generation, advocacy engagement, and customer development.
- Build effective relationships with external experts, thought leaders, patient advocacy organizations, and other stakeholders.
- Select and lead agency partners in support of strategy development, market preparation, and launch planning.
AI and the Marketer of the Future- Build and apply strong AI and large-language-model fluency across commercialization planning.
- Explore new approaches to insight generation, competitive intelligence, forecasting, content development, market research, and customer engagement.
- Partner across functions to identify opportunities to increase the speed, quality, and personalization of disease-state experiences for healthcare professionals and patients.
- Encourage responsible experimentation while ensuring appropriate governance, compliance, and human oversight.
Development and Evidence Strategy- Represent the US commercial perspective within Global development and commercialization discussions.
- Provide commercial input into target product profiles, clinical development assumptions, evidence-generation priorities, endpoints, patient populations, and differentiation strategies.
- Identify evidence gaps that may affect future adoption, access, treatment choice, or long-term commercial potential.
- Ensure that development and evidence plans reflect the realities of US clinical practice and customer decision-making.
Forecasting, Investment, and Business Planning- Inform long-term revenue forecasts, patient-based forecasts, scenario planning, and commercial assumptions for future indications.
- Develop clear investment cases and recommendations for OpEx, market development, evidence generation, and launch preparation.
- Partner with Finance, Business Operations, Market Access, Global, and other functions to evaluate commercial potential and resource requirements.
- Establish measurable success indicators and proactively identify risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
Access and Patient Experience- Partner closely with Market Access to inform pricing, contracting, reimbursement, and access strategies for indications in development.
- Anticipate payer evidence requirements and potential barriers to coverage.
- Work with Patient Support Services and other partners to design future patient access, onboarding, and support experiences.
- Ensure the voice of patients and caregivers is incorporated into commercialization planning.
Operational Excellence and Compliance- Manage multiple workstreams effectively while prioritizing the highest-impact strategic decisions.
- Ensure marketing and commercialization activities comply with all internal policies and external requirements.
- Establish strong operating rhythms, decision processes, and stakeholder communication.
- Proactively manage risks, timelines, budgets, agencies, and cross-functional dependencies.
About YouQualifications- Bachelor's degree.
- Minimum of seven years of relevant commercial experience in the biopharmaceutical industry.
- US commercial experience, with demonstrated knowledge of market dynamics and treatment decision-making within hematology, oncology, immunology or another complex specialty market.
- Evidence of
- strategic chops (through a background in strategy consulting, new product planning and/or global/US strategy role)
- strong US marketing tactical execution, ideally in a launch setting (could be a new product launch or an indication expansion).
- Entrepreneurial mindset which serves as a proxy for dealing with ambiguity and a context that is evolving.
- Strong understanding of the drug development process and the relationship among clinical, regulatory, medical, access, and commercial decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to provide commercial input into development plans, evidence strategies, forecasts, or investment decisions.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional teams and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.
- Strong strategic, analytical, project-management, and prioritization capabilities.
- Ability to operate effectively with uncertainty, evolving data, and competing priorities.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and executive-influencing skills.
- High level of personal and professional integrity, sound judgment, and accountability.
- Ability to work independently with limited direction while maintaining strong alignment with key stakeholders.
- We are living in an increasingly AI-first world, which is translating into how HCPs and patients consume information. Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools and advanced analytics to inform commercial execution and delivering outstanding customer experiences is highly desired.
- Demonstrated examples of applying AI, advanced analytics, or emerging technologies to commercial strategy and execution.
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 programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave.
The salary range for this position is:
$178,500.00 - $257,833.33
All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK.
