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Sanofi

Global pharma company; vaccines and R&D

Head of Marketing - U.S. Hemophilia

Marketing Generalist & ManagementPosted on Nov 11
Full-timeCambridge, MA, USA$266.3k - $443.8k

About the Job

Requirements

  • Minimum of 10 years of relevant biopharmaceutical experience with progressive marketing leadership responsibility.
  • Experience managing multi-brand portfolios in competitive specialty care or rare disease markets.
  • Experience leading patient-facing or field-based organizations.
  • Strong strategic thinking and portfolio management capability.
  • Ability to build integrated, customer-journey-based marketing strategies across healthcare professional, nurse, patient, and caregiver audiences.
  • Leadership, people development, and change management skills, including the ability to lead a team through a transition.
  • Ability to drive innovation and apply artificial intelligence and emerging technologies to improve team productivity and marketing effectiveness.
  • Analytical skills and experience with data-driven decision making and marketing optimization.
  • Cross-functional collaboration, enablement, and stakeholder management skills in a matrix organization.
  • Financial acumen, including experience managing significant advertising and promotion, field operating budgets, and brand profit and loss.
  • Ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

  • Develop annual strategic and tactical brand plans with global and cross-functional partners, and update them quarterly based on performance, customer insights, and market dynamics.
  • Gain organizational alignment on five-year strategic and one-year tactical plans before implementation.
  • Make brand life-cycle management recommendations and align multiple stakeholder groups, including senior leadership.
  • Serve as the primary U.S. marketing interface with Global Brand Teams, balancing global strategy with U.S. market needs.
  • Drive a customer-journey-first approach that ensures consistency and brand balance across the portfolio.
  • Motivate and inspire the Marketing organization, set standards and expectations, develop talent, and recognize contributions.
  • Lead through layers of management across Marketing and the Community Relations & Education field organization, ensuring consistent standards and a unified culture.
  • Oversee team members, including annual objective setting, mid-year and end-of-year reviews, and recruitment, development, and retention.
  • Build a culture of customer-centricity, accountability, and data-driven decision making, with clear career pathways for team members.
  • Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners.
  • Motivate and inspire the field team and its people managers, strengthening patient-first excellence, compliant promotional practice, and high performance.
  • Own the promotional strategy and execution for the field organization's branded and unbranded patient outreach.
  • Support the field team in providing patient and caregiver education on the hemophilia portfolio, product information, and competitive positioning.
  • Partner with patient support services leadership to ensure a seamless patient experience.
  • Establish key performance indicators for field engagement and monitor performance against them.
  • Lead the Marketing and Community Relations & Education organizations through change, providing clear direction and transparent communication and fostering new ways of working.
  • Champion innovation and a test-and-learn mindset, encouraging smart risk-taking to reach and support customers.
  • Drive adoption of artificial intelligence within the teams to increase productivity, speed, and quality of work.
  • Embed artificial-intelligence-driven insights and tools in marketing strategy and tactics, including patient and healthcare professional search behavior, content strategy, channel mix optimization, and personalization.
  • Partner with Digital and Global Therapeutic Marketing Capabilities to bring emerging technologies and global digital capabilities into U.S. execution.
  • Own hemophilia portfolio performance, including demand, revenue, gross-to-net, operating expenses, and business operating income.
  • Direct marketing tactics across healthcare professional, nurse, patient, and caregiver audiences, including sales materials, digital and social channels, direct mail, speaker programs, patient and healthcare professional programs, congresses, and advisory boards.
  • Align resources to marketing initiatives to achieve short-term and long-term brand objectives and portfolio growth.
  • Establish key performance indicators and work with Insights & Analytics to measure initiative impact, optimize channel mix and return on investment, and reallocate resources.
  • Enable cross-functional partners, including Sales, Thought Leader Liaisons, patient support services, Medical, and Market Access, through aligned strategy, integrated plans, and fit-for-purpose tools and content.
  • Champion cross-functional account and regional planning, supporting hemophilia treatment center engagement and total-account approaches that translate national strategy into regional and account-level action.
  • Manage and develop marketing agency relationships in support of key initiatives.
  • Partner with Market Access on pricing and contracting strategy and implementation.
  • Build relationships with external customers, including thought leaders, healthcare professionals, nurses, patients, caregivers, and patient advocacy groups.

Desired Qualifications

  • Proven track record of leading and developing high-performing marketing and field-based teams, including managing through multiple layers of management.
  • Direct experience in hemophilia, rare blood disorders, or rare diseases.
  • Track record of successful product launches and lifecycle management in specialty care.
  • Experience with artificial-intelligence-driven marketing, omnichannel and channel mix optimization, and emerging marketing technologies.
  • Experience with account planning and hemophilia treatment center and total-account strategies.
  • Experience navigating compliance and legal guardrails for patient-facing promotional field teams.
  • Experience working with Global Brand Teams and navigating U.S./Global alignment.
  • MBA or a science-related graduate degree.

About the Company

Sanofi

Global pharma company; vaccines and R&D

Sanofi is a global pharmaceutical and biotechnology company that develops, manufactures, and sells prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, and vaccines. Its products span immunology, oncology, rare diseases, and vaccines, addressing unmet medical needs through a strong focus on research and development. Sanofi's core product model relies on large-scale R&D, strategic partnerships, and licensing to bring new therapies to markets, with revenue generated from product sales and collaborations. The company differentiates itself by leveraging its global reach, diverse portfolio, and emphasis on patient-centric solutions, safety, and quality to navigate regulatory environments in developed and emerging markets. The company’s goal is to improve health outcomes and quality of life for people worldwide by delivering innovative treatments and vaccines that meet unmet medical needs.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1973

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