R&D Scientific Competitive Intelligence Senior Analyst

About the job

Our Team:

The Global R&D Strategy and Portfolio Management team’s overarching objective is to equip Sanofi’s leaders with robust, objective and externally focused insights and recommendations they need to make better informed R&D strategy, and portfolio and project investment decisions to ensure pipeline sustainability.

We achieve this by (1) delivering a comprehensive R&D strategy positioning the organization to embrace future opportunities and challenges, driving sustained success (2) ensuring a sustainable portfolio strategy, robust valuation and prioritization of the R&D portfolio and optimization of resources, high quality pipeline reporting, benchmarking, and scientific competitive intelligence (3) ensuring high quality investment governance incorporating decision quality and thoughtful risk taking principles.

As part of the R&D Portfolio Strategy and Management team, the Competitive Intelligence group works with key stakeholders across the organization (R&D and GBUs) to deliver robust external competitive intelligence insights and ensure data-driven decision-making.

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Competitive Intelligence Analyst to join our team at our offshore hub in India. In this role, you will provide competitor analysis and insights in one or more therapeutic areas to support key decisions points with a focus on the early/mid-development pipeline. You will collaborate closely with global cross-functional teams to build a comprehensive understanding of competitor strategies and identify risks and opportunities for Sanofi.

Main responsibilities:

• With expertise to use of a wide range of CI sources, provide an accurate, comprehensive and insightful view of the competitions to Sanofi’s programs.

• Beyond data collection, work with the CI Leaders and the Portfolio Strategy leads to articulate implications for Sanofi, predict high-impact changes and coordinate the communication to R&D senior leaders on threats and opportunities.

• Generate and deliver CI reports using formats optimized for dissemination. Projects may include, but are not limited to, competitive landscapes (target, disease, or technology), clinical data comparisons, competitor event watchlists, conference coverage, company profiling, etc.

• Proactively monitor top competitors and timely communicate analysis and insights from key updates. Ensure that stakeholders participating in governance decision-making meetings have an up-to-date view of the relevant competitive situation.

• Build a partnership and be the main support of the TA Scientific CI leads that generate insights for Global Project Teams. Contribute to address key competitive topic/questions on an ad hoc basis, including highly complex projects coordinated by the TA CI leader. Collaborate closely with R&D Portfolio Analytics and Benchmarking teams to support common goals and data consistency. Work in partnership with Commercial CI teams, collaborate on joint initiatives and exchange best CI practices. Contribute to the assessment and adoption of new CI tools, in particular digital and AI solutions

About you

• Experience: Strong years of experience in pharmaceuticals/healthcare industry, specifically within innovative pharma. Strong year experience in Competitive Intelligence within a pharma or a CI agency conducting secondary data analysis and surveillance of R&D assets (pipeline drugs, technology platforms, clinical trials)  preferably in the therapeutic areas of Cardiovascular, diabetes and Metabolism (preferred) or Immunology (dermatology, respiratory or gastro). Experience working on novel therapeutic classes (e.g. highly engineered biologics) desirable.

• Soft skills: Team spirit and cross-functional collaboration. Excellent analytical skills and learning agility; able to quickly grasp new concepts and absorb large amounts of information under pressure

• Excellent interpersonal skills; work effectively with diverse teams across geographies and functions. Stakeholder management. Strategic thinking in a fast-moving organization

• Technical skills: Strong understanding of drug development processes, research platforms, therapeutic modalities

• Knowledge of diseases relevant to Cardiovascular, Metabolism or Immunology, understanding the underling biology and immune mechanisms

• Experience in utilizing secondary data to map out therapies competing in specific diseases, targets, and modalities. Autonomously gathers and analyses scientific information and manages the monitoring of competitors in focus

• Experience in using pharma CI databases such as Citeline, Cortellis, Evaluate

• Excellent oral/written communications skills; ability to synthesize complex information into clear and impactful deliverables

• Project management abilities to handle multiple projects simultaneously and ensure priorities and timelines are met

• Education:  Advanced degree in Life sciences/Medicine (PhD, PharmD or MD)

• Languages: English (all data, reports and interactions with business stakeholders are managed in English)