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Job Title: Health Value Translation Lead M-F

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

Within Sanofi R&D, the Health Value Translation (HVT) Lead reports to the Head of Health Value Translation within the Patient Informed Development and Health Value Translation function. The HVT Lead represents the department at the Global Project Team and is accountable for the patient integrated disease strategy (PDS) across assigned indications. This role ensures the PDS is fully integrated cross-functionally at the global team level and facilitates strategy implementation at local levels via patient engagement lead team members. 

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

• Represent PID&HVT at the global project team, ensuring effective integration of team members across milestones, decision-making forums, and sub-teams.

• Develop and implement innovative Patient Disease Strategies (PDS) starting in research and carrying through all development stages. An effective PDS must demonstrate patient relevant asset differentiation, program acceleration, awareness and access of external stakeholder (including patients for study participation) to Sanofi’s best in class science.

• Drive pre-clinical programs through registration, ensuring the asset meets stakeholder expectations (patients, payers, regulators).

• Identify and integrate external engagement activities with relevant Patient Advocacy Groups in, and across, key countries.

• Build internal collaborations with cross-functional teams to integrate the PDS into global and local strategies.

• Lead external partnerships to increase scientific innovation and improve R&D decision-making.

• Lead innovative value development through systematic assessment of digital capacities and real-world data.

• Contribute to regulatory and payer submission dossiers.

About You

Key Skills and Competencies:

• Ability to work on site per the Sanofi hybrid work model

• Ability to focus on impact and conceptualize bold, innovative opportunities.

• Excellent communication skills with demonstrated effective collaborations.

• Cross-functional leadership skills, both strategic and hands-on.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Innovative thinker, able to simplify complex problems and lead trade-off discussions.

• Team player, open, honest.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in clinical development within Pharma.

• Basic experience in Real World investigations and knowledge of patient preference research.

• Familiarity with Digital Tools, Large Language Models, Social Media Listening, etc.

• Understanding of payers’ environment in key markets.

• Understanding of evolving external patient, regulatory, and payer landscape.

Education:

• MD, PharmD, PhD or other postgraduate-level degree preferred. Bachelor of Science combined with a relevant Master's degree  (Business, Health Policy, Biology or related) and minimum 10 years of drug development experience spanning preclinical to registration is required. 

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.

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.

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