Head of COVID Franchise, U.S. Vaccines

About The Job

The ideal candidate is a highly strategic, dynamic, and organized commercial leader who will drive strategy and execution across the U.S. COVID Vaccine market. This person has a strong understanding of commercial marketing and sales activities coupled with deep understanding of the U.S. commercial space and ability to manage through a complex operational and product delivery environment. The person will need to be able to create a superior customer and patient experience, as well as embedding Sanofi values of Aim higher, Act for patients and Be bold. You are motivational, energetic and a respected leader who brings the COVID vaccine strategy to life and engages the organization to adopt new ways of working to achieve the mandate of evolving the Go-To-Market model for Vaccines. You are a clear communicator, able to deliver key messages establishing both the “what” and the “why” with credibility. You are empathetic to understand what is feasible given competing priorities and a “champion” who rallies followership for the transformation through organizational influence.

Main Responsibilities

• Commercial leadership of Covid US franchise team
• Deliver the strategic leadership and vision for U.S. COVID and Nuvaxovid combination Vaccine portfolio including strategic and tactical plans
• Responsible for U.S. COVID Vaccine performance (P&L) including unit demand, revenue, operating expenses and business operating income
• Responsible for competitive analysis and positioning of Sanofi COVID vaccine portfolio products in the increasingly competitive U.S. market
• Gain organizational alignment in the development and presentation of future years strategic and 1-year tactical plans prior to implementation
• Marketing leadership for Covid assets
• Work closely with internal and external agency partners to develop impactful campaigns for HCP & Consumer assets
• Build effective working relationships with key external customers, including thought leaders and patient advocacy groups across respiratory immunizations
• People leadership both direct and matrix
• Responsible for leading and inspiring both direct marketing team and matrix franchise team
• Set direction, establish challenging goals, develop talented people, and recognize outstanding contributions
• Recruit, select, develop, and retain talent with focus on building a diverse and inclusive team
• Global/Pipeline interface
• Works closely with Global Marketing to identify new product opportunities and management of global supply planning
• Lead go-to-market assessment for future pipeline assets
• Member of M&CS leadership team
• Enterprise leader contributing to cross franchise initiatives

About You

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required; MBA Degree is preferred
• A minimum of 10 years’ pharmaceutical or vaccines experience in marketing & sales is required
• A minimum of 8 years of product management / marketing experience is required
• A minimum of 5 years of Progressive leadership /people management experience is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience and depth of knowledge in the US healthcare market (preferably in vaccines) is required
• Excellent interpersonal skills to negotiate, communicate, present, persuade a point of view is required
• To work effectively in a matrixed, multi-cultural, global organization is required
• Experience managing a commercial P&L either directly or in a matrix environment is strongly preferred
• Exceptional leadership skills with proven ability to develop next generation leaders is strongly preferred