Project Manager Medical Communications

About the job

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

Our Team:

Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) is a group of internal associates with multi-disciplinary expertise that helps to deliver impactful solutions to Medical and Commercial needs of Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions. SBO strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA, and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, Globally. 

Main responsibilities:

Project Manager Medical Communications will be responsible for project management support and to ensure the end-to-end effective project delivery of the designated publication/medical education deliverable across all phases. Initiate and amend submission based on comments (as required). Support the team with the development of a scope of work; build plan and schedule for agreement with the internal stakeholders. Arrange key internal and external stakeholder meetings. Track the delivery of activities (including managing issues and risks) and support follow-up. Support required submission, compliance/approval/Launch activities, and ensure compliance with publication/MLR processes and update as required with approval/compliance tools (e.g., PromoMats, DAM). Support the management of the assigned publication or medical education in line with the agreed budget. Support and manage as required external spend tracking (e.g., approvals, purchase orders, and goods received). Support adherence to associated compliance-related activities and approvals (with internal stakeholder taking accountability for compliance). Take the lead in liaising with global stakeholders for publication planning and coordinating medical events. Maintain an integrated scientific communication plan with quarterly updates in consultation with Publication Leads. Should set and develop the operational aspects of the project, develop, and monitor timelines, milestones and project metrics Help in the coordination of medical events and advisory boards and other medical events, as appropriate. Track and reconcile publication open access charges. Lead team of associate project specialists/project specialists/associate project managers. Collaborate effectively with stakeholders: Scientific communication global and/or local teams; and medical content enhancement teams. 

​​People:

• Maintain effective relationship with the end stakeholders (medical scientific community) with an end objective to develop education and communication content as per requirement
• Actively lead and develop SBO operation activities;
• Ensure new technologies are leveraged 

Performance:

• Ensure publication/medical education materials (slide decks, abstracts, posters, and manuscripts etc.) are delivered, stored as per agreed timelines and quality
• Develop tools, technology, and process to constantly improve quality and productivity 

Process:

• Support delivery of projects in terms of resourcing, quality, timeliness, efficiency, and high technical standards for deliveries made by the medical writing group, including scientific documents and clinical/medical reports
• Contribute to overall quality enhancement by ensuring high scientific standards for the output produced by the medical writing group
• Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with all applicable regulatory standards 

Stakeholder:

• Work closely with scientific communication/medical content enhancement teams to ensure the end-to-end effective project delivery of the designated publication/medical education deliverables 

About you 

• Experience:>8 years post qualification experience 
• Soft skills: Stakeholder management; communication skills; and ability to work independently and within a team environment 
• Technical skills: Project management; Scientific/Medical writing/communications; Pharma experience (including but not limited to therapeutic area/domain knowledge exposure; and/or publication submission). Hands on experience with MLR process and exposure to relevant tools such as Veeva PromoMats or similar is desirable
• Education: University degree level (Graduate degree, preferably in science). Additionally, relevant advanced/postgraduate degree in life sciences/pharmacy/similar discipline desirable 
• Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

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