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Medical Engagement Lead - Transplant - Netherlands
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With us, you’ll break new ground across a growing and diverse portfolio – from established medicines that millions rely on to pioneering breakthroughs in immunology and chronic disease care. Imagine the scale: your work will help deliver treatments to people around the world who live with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and complications arising from transplant.
Fueled by groundbreaking advances in technology, we are accelerating innovation and expanding access faster than ever. If you’re ready to push boundaries, embrace the power of AI and digital tools, and shape the future of healthcare, this is where your ambition meets impact.
Location: Netherlands
Job type: Permanent, Full time
This is a hybrid (field/office-based) position that can be performed from anywhere in the Netherlands
About the job:
TheMedical Engagement Lead (MEL) withinour Transplant Medical Affairs team,serves as the strategic medical leader for the therapeutic area (specifically chronic GVHD), responsible for shaping and executing the medical engagement strategy across the product lifecycle. This role ensures strong scientific leadership, impactful stakeholder engagement, and close cross-functional collaboration to drive the medical excellence and credibility of the company within the transplant landscape. The MEL acts as the key medical point of contact internally and externally, representing the company’s scientific vision while ensuring ethical, compliant, and evidence‑based medical activities.
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:
Engage proactively and reactively with healthcare professionals and institutions in an omnichannel manner, exchanging medical and scientific information during one-to-one interactions and group settings
Organize and facilitate local group scientific meetings (hospital staff meetings, webinars, etc.) with KOLs and HCPs according to the Stakeholder Engagement plan, aligned with the Transplant Medical plan
Develop and maintain trusted partnerships through scientific engagement and exchange with healthcare professionals and institutions in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment
Provide high-quality, accurate, balanced, and directed information to key external stakeholders in response to unsolicited requests, support investigators in IIR submissions, and manage local advisory board
Develop and execute individual stakeholder engagement plans aligned with the Medical Plan, generating high-value, actionable insights and proposing solutions
Contribute to and manage evidence-generation activities, supporting both internal evidence-generation projects and investigator-initiated studies (IISs)
Collaborate with Market Access teams by contributing to market access dossiers and providing medical-specific input, while communicating clinical value to population-health and formulary decision makers
Maintain full compliance with company, industry, legal, and regulatory requirements while collaborating effectively with internal stakeholders and overseeing approval of medical and marketing materials
About you:
Experience: Proven track record in stakeholder strategy, planning, and engagement within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry; experience in field-based medical roles is highly valued
Soft skills: Strategic thinking with strong business acumen; excellent interpersonal relationship skills with ability to build trust and collaborate across functions; learning agility and adaptability in dynamic environments
Technical skills: Profound ability to deliver impactful scientific exchange; disease and therapeutic area knowledge; proficiency with CRM tools; understanding of country market access frameworks; effective in using multiple channels and formats for scientific engagements
Education: MD, Pharmacist/PharmD, PhD, or Master of Science degree (required)
Languages: Fluent level in spoken and written business English; native or mother tongue proficiency in local country language
Why choose us?
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
Work in a hybrid role with autonomy and flexibility, building meaningful relationships with leading healthcare professionals in the Transplant field
Be part of bringing innovative therapies to patients with serious transplant-related conditions
Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what's never-been-done-before. You'll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
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nullPursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.
Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.
At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.
Watch 'One day at Sanofi' and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion initiatives at sanofi.com
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Why work with us
- Do the never done before. We push the boundaries of what’s possible: expanding access, accelerating innovation, and finding new ways to improve everyday health for millions.
- Drive the transformation. We’re leading the shift to AI-powered healthcare, using digital tools to reinvent how medicines are developed, manufactured, and delivered worldwide.
- Deliver at scale. Our reach is unmatched—we bring trusted treatments to millions worldwide, ensuring broad access and real-world impact at every stage of care.
- Make an impact that matters. From tackling global health challenges to advancing sustainable, inclusive healthcare, everything we do is driven by purpose.
Who ignites your potential?
For Sam, it was her mom—teaching her to listen, push boundaries, and put patients first. At Sanofi, we know your inspiration drives your impact. Bring your passion, and together, we’ll chase the miracles of science.
"Each disease, each country, each person brings opportunities that challenge us to push the boundaries, to think of better ways to look at healthcare and pioneer new possibilities."
Olivier Charmeil
Executive Vice President, General Medicines
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