Senior Director, New Product Planning – Neurology

Job Title: Senior Director, New Product Planning – Neurology

• Location: Cambridge, MA (Alternative locations are Morristown, NJ; Washington, DC; or Paris, France).

About the Job

Join a team transforming the vision of care for people with neurological conditions. In Sanofi’s Specialty Care you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs.

Reporting to the Global Head of New Product Planning (NPP) for the Sanofi Neurology Franchise, the Senior Director NPP Neurology will play a critical role in the future growth of Sanofi. This role demands a deep understanding of commercialization needs throughout pre-launch, ensuring that early-stage assets are developed with commercial viability, market readiness and probability of overall success in mind.

The Senior Director will:

• Leverage deep understanding of major global pharmaceutical markets, strong analytical skills and previous commercialization experience to lead the commercial strategy and brand development for internal neurology pipeline drug candidates from discovery/preclinical through proof of concept/start of phase 3.
• Lead the commercial Due Diligence and assessment of external pipeline opportunities (In-licensing, collaborations, M&A).
• Coordinate and support the development and articulation of comprehensive Therapeutic Area and Disease Area strategy projects.

The Senior Director NPP Neurology will collaborate cross-functionally with teams and leaders across the organization including Research, Clinical Development, Regulatory, Medical, Business Operations, Commercial, R&D Portfolio Strategy and Business Development.

In particular, the Senior Director NPP Neurology will closely partner with SILC, Market Access, Health Economics, Forecasting, Market Research and Competitive Intelligence to deliver the commercial assessments and strategies.

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and Specialty Care neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs.

About Sanofi

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Main responsibilities:

Drive Therapeutic Area and Disease Area Strategy development and execution:

• Lead and drive the development of the Neurology TAS ensuring submission of an aligned and clear articulation of the strategy across Research, Clinical Development and Commercial, working closely with Neurology Therapeutics Areas Strategy (TAS) core team; liaise with Function Heads, Corporate Strategy, R&D Strategy, TA Heads, GBLs and GPHs.
• Support the preparation of the annual Portfolio Strategy Week (PSW) presentation and Disease Area Strategy (DAS) requirements.
• Analyze disease landscapes, identify investment opportunities, develop recommendations and execution roadmaps.
• Present strategic assessments and recommendations to Senior Leadership, including ExCom members.

Advance early pipeline and guide drug development with future commercialization in mind:

• Represent commercial as a core member of the Global Project Team (GPT), leading the development of Target Product Profiles (TPP) based on thorough understanding of market dynamics and targeted differentiation and positioning.
• Support the team in preparing strategic assessments and deliverables, including presentations, to governance committees.
• Actively participate in the development of a robust asset-specific Clinical Development Plan (CDP) and the Integrated Evidence Generation Plan (IEGP).
• Support milestone and phase transition decisions by contributing to the preparation and delivering presentations to Sanofi governance bodies (TARC, RWG, DWG, IDCC).

Support and execute the external innovation strategy:

• Partner with BD and M&A teams to provide commercial insights and guidance on external assets screening and participate in the BD process from external innovation to due diligence, valuation, negotiation and integration.
• Lead the commercial assessment of Business Development and M&A opportunities.
• Support investment decisions by contributing to the preparation of presentations to governance bodies (TxC, Investment Committee, Acquisition Committee) and present opportunity assessments and recommendations to Senior Leadership, including ExCom members.

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