Head, Portfolio Management

Job Title: Head, Market Access Portfolio Strategy

Location: Cambridge, MA , Morristown, NJ

About the job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing Progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.​

Position Summary:

The Head, Market Access Portfolio Strategy is a strategic connector responsible for integrating payer strategies, scaling long-term Value & Access (V&A) capabilities, embedding AI-powered solutions, and leading early-stage access planning across a complex and diverse portfolio. This role directly supports the market access strategy for high-impact customer groups—including the Big 3 (Zinc/CVS, Ascent/ESI, Emisar/United/OptumRx)—by supporting the three dedicated Account Heads with coordinated content, pricing frameworks, and pull-through strategies that span therapeutic areas.

The role also maintains a broad enterprise view of market access profitability, including GTN dynamics, access investment trade-offs, and payer segmentation strategy—ensuring the organization maximizes value realization while enhancing executional efficiency across brands and development stages.

Main Responsibilities:

• Serve as the enterprise connector across Value & Access, unifying execution across therapeutic areas and enabling coordinated customer, pricing, and pull-through strategies.

• Lead a senior team across HEVA, customer marketing, future V&A enablement, and portfolio execution to drive enterprise value.

• Support BD assets from US perspective, shaping Target Product Profiles, GTN assumptions, and payer value hypotheses.

• Guide payer evidence planning and ensure seamless handoff to brand V&A teams in coordination with global access functions.

• Build scalable, AI-enabled tools and workflows to accelerate delivery of payer materials, reduce vendor costs, and modernize V&A content operations.

• Lead alignment of payer strategy for the Big 3 (Zinc/CVS, Ascent/ESI, Emisar/United/OptumRx), partnering with Account Heads to drive impact through integrated pricing, contracting, and customer engagement models.

• Responsible for GOA 1 contract approvals across specialty portfolio

• Lead 20% of market access brand budget for dynamic resource allocation across market access

• Partner with HEVA and insights to embed GTN trends and macroeconomic factors into access strategy.

• Oversee operational execution, resource prioritization, and KPI tracking across market access initiatives.

• Develop future V&A talent through capability planning, mentorship, and training to build a high-performing, future-ready team.

About You

Required Qualifications:

• 10+ years of progressive experience in market access, payer strategy, pricing, or related functions within pharmaceutical or biotech industries.

• Deep expertise in GTN drivers, payer landscape, and specialty product market access across diverse therapeutic areas.

• Proven experience managing cross-functional teams and driving enterprise-level strategic projects.

• Demonstrated success implementing digital or AI-enabled capabilities in commercial environments.

• Ability to operate effectively at both strategic and tactical levels within matrixed organizations.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience integrating AI or advanced analytics platforms into payer strategy or pricing operations.

• Exceptional change management skills to lead capability evolution in dynamic market environments.

• Track record of driving cross-business synergies and translating strategic insights into actionable plans.

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.​

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.​

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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.