Director, Value and Access – PEDs/TDAP/Meningitis - Vaccines

Location: Morristown, NJ | Travel: ~30%

About the role

Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale—and shape the future of immunization. Sanofi is seeking a strategic leader to drive U.S. Value and Access for its Mainline vaccine portfolios including PEDs/TDAP/Meningitis. In this role, you will shape access strategies, optimize customer engagement, and lead future launch planning for high-impact vaccines that support public health and seasonal immunization efforts.

About the team

You will join a high-performing, cross-functional team within the Vaccines Business Unit, including experts in Market Access, HEVA, Pricing, Policy, Public Affairs, and Brand. These teams are united by a shared mission to protect public health and deliver innovative vaccines to patients. You will collaborate closely with U.S. and global colleagues, including field-based Value Assessment Liaison (VALs) and Reimbursement Assessment Liaison (REL) teams, ensuring alignment across strategy, execution, and customer engagement. Our primary external customers include health systems, providers, and health plans.

Responsibilities

• Lead U.S. PEDs/TDAP/Meningitis vaccines value and access strategy, ensuring alignment across brand, pricing, reimbursement, and customer engagement teams.
• Optimize health systems and HCP opportunities to ensure innovations resonate with providers and patients; guide VALs, RELs, and field teams in customer engagements.
• Create customer-facing reimbursement and FDA-approved materials and train teams on their effective use.
• Demonstrate value beyond pricing by collaborating with Pricing, Contracting, and HEVA teams to communicate clinical and real-world value of therapies.
• Support field teams with strategic messaging and tools to enhance reimbursement, pricing, and contract discussions.
• Drive reimbursement strategy, aligning access strategies with optimal reimbursement pathways, coding strategies, new products, and competitive analysis.
• Embody cross-functional collaboration, representing the customer voice across Brand, HEVA, Pricing, Contracting, Policy, and Public Affairs teams.
• Leverage market intelligence and Health IT to monitor access trends, threats, and opportunities; share insights and best practices across teams.
• Identify quality measure and Health IT (HIT) opportunities to support brand objectives and optimize market access.
• Partner with Early Commercial and Business Development to assess and support pipeline and business development opportunities.
• Serve as a core member of launch teams, embedding with brand teams to shape access strategy, brand planning, and execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years experience in Vaccines value and access, pricing, or reimbursement.
• Proven success in product launches and cross-functional leadership.
• Strong communication, strategic thinking, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience with value-based contracting and provider risk models.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within or with health plans, managed care organizations, or health systems.
• Familiarity with how payers evaluate vaccine coverage and set immunization policies.
• Understanding of commercial, Medicaid, and Medicare benefit structures.

Benefits

• Endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, including promotions or lateral moves, domestically or internationally.
• Thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package recognizing your contribution and amplifying your impact.
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing benefits, including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs.
• At least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.