General Medicines
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Job Title: Senior Director Market Development -TZIELD

About the Job

Join the team transforming how healthcare is delivered for chronic and specialty conditions worldwide. In General Medicines, you’ll help drive meaningful outcomes in diabetes, transplant, and immunology - with the scale and urgency patients deserve.

The Senior Director, aT1D Market Development is a senior commercial leader responsible for shaping and executing integrated market development and education strategies to enable successful commercialization of new indications for a novel biologic therapy in Type 1 Diabetes (T1D).

This role balances near-term execution with long-term strategic vision—accelerating market uptake while building a durable foundation for sustained category and brand leadership. The position requires strong cross-functional leadership, a high degree of external engagement, and the ability to lead through influence within a complex, matrixed organization.

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.
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Main Responsibilities:

Strategic Impact

This role plays a critical role in:

• Defining the future clinical model for autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes

• Establishing clinical conviction and thought leadership around emerging standards of care

• Driving awareness, education, and adoption across healthcare professionals and other key stakeholders

• Enabling scalable, compliant commercialization of a first-in-class biologic therapy within

Market Development & Strategy

• Lead the development of differentiated, insight-driven market development strategies grounded in a deep understanding of disease biology, care pathways, customer needs, and market dynamics.

• Translate strategy into clear, measurable national and regional initiatives that drive awareness, education, and adoption.

• Establish, monitor, and optimize KPIs to assess performance and inform continuous improvement.

Thought Leader, Faculty & Key Account Leadership

• Own national and regional KOL strategy, including identification, segmentation, engagement planning, and execution across diabetes centers of excellence and priority accounts.

• Lead commercial advisory boards to generate insights across specialties and HCP segments.

• Build and manage KOL working groups and faculty programs across center of excellence and priority accounts; develop and continuously optimize a best-in-class speaker bureau.

• Maintain a strong external presence, spending significant time engaging with national and regional thought leaders to inform strategy and execution.

Education & Congress Excellence

• Define and execute a comprehensive peer-to-peer education strategy with clear outcomes measurement.

• Lead U.S. national congress strategy, planning, and execution; collaborate on regional congress activities.

• Ensure all educational initiatives are compliant, scientifically rigorous, and aligned with brand strategy.

People & Matrix Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a Regional Marketing Team of four, fostering high performance and talent development.

• Drive alignment and execution across matrixed partners including Medical Affairs, Field Medical, Commercial, Market Access, Regulatory, Product Communications, Global Marketing, Patient Advocacy, and agency partners.

• Serve as a trusted cross-functional leader who connects strategy to execution and proactively removes barriers.

Operational & Financial Stewardship

• Oversee agency and vendor partnerships to deliver high-quality, compliant marketing and educational programs.

• Partner with Medical leadership, publications, and health outcomes teams to align evidence generation with market needs.

• Manage budgets responsibly and ensure strong return on investment across programs.

Travel

• Willingness to travel nationally and occasionally internationally approximately 30–40% of the time.

About You

Qualifications & Experience

Required

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, PhD, PharmD, MD) preferred.

• 10+ years of progressive pharmaceutical or biotechnology marketing experience with increasing leadership responsibility.

• Proven experience leading market development initiatives, including regulatory review and approval processes.

• Strong scientific and commercial acumen with demonstrated credibility working with medical experts.

• Prior people management experience and success leading cross-functional teams in a matrix environment.

• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex business challenges, develop strategic solutions, execute tactically, and measure impact.

Preferred

• Biologics launch experience.

• Experience in diabetes, immunolgy, oncology or rare diseases

• Track record of building scalable thought leader engagement models and education platforms.

Core Competencies

• Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline

• Executive presence and influence

• Matrix leadership and collaboration

• Analytical rigor and financial acumen

• Clear, compelling communication

Job Classification

• Job Category: Local Marketing Leader

• Job Profile: Local Marketing Leader L4-2

• EEO Classification:1.2 – First/Mid-Level Officials and Managers

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.

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