Public Affairs Manager

Job title:Public Affairs Manager

• Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands

• Job type: Full time

*When applying in addition to a CV please include a Cover Letter.

About the job

Our Public Affairs department sits at the intersection of science, society, and policy. Here decisions are made that determine whether life changing medicines reach the patients who need them. As a Public Affairs Manager, you'll drive our external engagement strategy and be a impactful voice in the conversations that matter. You'll build meaningful partnerships with amongst other patient organisations, healthcare providers, and policymakers, and lead initiatives that remove the barriers to access innovative treatments. This isn't just a role. It's an opportunity to contribute to a sustainable healthcare system and on the lives of patients.

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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:

Portfolio responsibilities

The Public Affairs manager coordinates as a Business Partner the blending of internal and external voices in order to:

• Establish and agree on the issue or unmet need

• Communicate & advocate for the right solution

• Shape the environment to create market readiness

• Develop and support an implementation pathway

Core activities

1. Mapping & Insights – health care environment

• Identify policy/health issues that impact the business

• Understand the external environment and identify the expectations and interests of
  key external stakeholders

• Develop broad view on general developments in Dutch healthcare sector (e.g. through participation in conferences, symposia, etc…)

• Follow-up of policy framework and changes in environment, especially for assigned GBU(s)

• Monitor and analyse new government initiatives, potential change in law and broader developments (including parliamentary activities regarding healthcare), identifying key trends

• Proactively assess their potential local business consequences in close collaboration with other teams (market access, communication, regulatory, medical, GBUs / franchises)

• Develop guidance on external environment evolution and inform proactively relevant internal stakeholders (market access, communication, regulatory, medical, GBUs / franchises)

• Map and manage the relevant key stakeholders in the assigned health care environment

2. Strategy Setting

• Determine the engagement and advocacy strategies that will most effectively achieve policy changes and business objectives

• Construct and roll-out a long-term Public Affairs plan for the assigned GBU(s), in line with both the GBU and cross-departmental priorities, and adapt plan to changing situations and priorities if needed

• Development of campaigns in collaboration with GBUs, PA BPs, Market Access and Communication colleagues

• Work together with the Head PA (Public Affairs) and other PA BPs (Business Partners) in order to determine country priorities

3. Engaging

• Identify and approach stakeholders and influencers to understand common points of interest or similar priorities in their agendas

• Engage to continue or start building trust-based relations

• Build contacts with external parties, including the development of a stakeholder network, in line with the priorities of the Public Affairs plan and the priorities of the local business

• Build opportunities for strategic dialogue on health system with interlocutors and advocate for sustainable evolution of the legislative framework

• Be the Sanofi/GBU representative in some key platforms of discussion, both internal and external

4. Advocating

• Determine approaches to engage and activate external stakeholders to achieve policy changes and business objectives and execute them by means of coalition-building, proactive campaigns, calls to action, etc.

• Ensure Sanofi’s point of view is heard by establishing and maintaining open dialogue between Sanofi Netherlands and (non-traditional) external key stakeholders

• Develop partnerships with healthcare provider associations (physicians, pharmacists, hospital, nurses…), sickness funds, trade associations, patient associations (overarching), think tanks…, in order to discuss trends and concerns and evaluate together how to maintain both a sustainable healthcare system and balanced economic environment

• Enhance Sanofi’s visibility and reputation both within and outside the pharmaceutical industry, e.g. through implementation of corporate programs, active participation in conferences, symposia, industry association meetings

• Educate stakeholders on value specific topics following the GBU Business Partner role

• Contribute to obtain regulatory/financial framework for PSP programs (p.ex. Home Care)

• Maintain and elevate relevant topics on the political agenda

• Focus on disease awareness and medical need for (upcoming) products in the GBU portfolio

• Measure impact

About you 

• Experience:

  • Strong track record in public affairs, advocacy or in a political/governmental environment

  • Understanding of the Dutch political and health care system

  • Preferred: Experience working in or with the pharmaceutical sector

  • Preferred: An existing network of relevant stakeholders in the Netherlands

• Skills:

  • Strong communicator and networker 

  • Ability to build sustainable relationships within the organisation, with policymakers, patient organizations and other external stakeholders

  • Analytical and forward thinker, problem solver, results oriented, self-organized and self-starter

  • Political sensitive and a good understanding of politics and media

  • Excellent influencing skills

  • Ability to manage multiple tasks, projects, priorities and complex systems simultaneously

  • Entrepreneurial mindset

  • Ability to operate in a cross-cultural and matrix environment

  • Integrity and self-awareness

• Education: Master’s degree in an appropriate field (Health Sciences, Political science, Policy) or equivalent experience. Medical degree (pharmacist, doctor) is welcomed

• Languages: Excellent command of Dutch and English, both verbal and written, is a strict requirement

Why choose us?

• Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet

• Drive Progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably

• Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed

• Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges into real-world solutions

• Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition

Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what’s next.

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