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Job Title: Lead, New Product Planning Forecasting

Location: Cambridge, MA

30 % of travel expected.

About the Job

Strategic Context:

Currently, Sanofi has the most robust pipeline and forthcoming product launches in the company’s history. As the next phase of our Play-To-Win strategy, Sanofi must appropriately support this pipeline to materialize our vision of delivering scientific miracles to patients worldwide. Thus, modernizing the Sanofi operational structure is also required. In line with this, project DRIVE is shepherding change throughout the organization and created the development of the Go-to-Market Capabilities (GTMC) team within the company.

The new GTMC organization is charged with delivering best-in-class capabilities to bring speed and increased value to commercial operations. It will refine priorities across products, markets, and the pipeline through dynamic resources allocation and efficiencies. Silos between business units and duplicative and overlapping resources will be replaced with standardized processes and tools. Operating with a One Sanofi mindset and entrepreneurial spirit, GTMC will accelerate and improve key capabilities to do more with less and facilitate the best-informed strategic decision making across the organization.

The GTMC organization aims to:

• Centralize Go-to-Market operational tasks across GBUs

• Standardize best in class capabilities, strengthen global support, and implement a better vertical reporting structure within GTMC from local to global

• Define ways of working, bringing clarity on the interactions across GBUs, Digital, and Commercial executional support teams from Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency

The Lead, New Product Planning will be responsible for analyzing the internal and external opportunities of strategic interest to Sanofi’s portfolio. This person will be an integral partner to the leadership as a key component to this role will be determining the commercial value of internal and external assets across the business, and in that role will be integral to helping develop and execute the business strategy for the commercial organization.

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Main Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities include, but not limited to

• Manage patient-based forecasts projecting units and revenue for early PIII, PII, and earlier stage products in the Sanofi Portfolio

• Collaborate with commercial leadership, new product planning (NPP), finance, and business development (BD) to define and assess opportunities and determine the overall fit and value to Sanofi

• Be a key leader/contributor to the Strategic Portfolio reviews and Strategic Planning processes, in addition to supporting scenario-based analyses to guide business decision-making for pipeline assets

• Coordinate with internal stakeholders to develop the information and analytic toolbox to produce accurate revenue projections for existing assets and new market opportunities (market research, landscape analyses due diligence on external opportunities, etc.)

• Lead the process of synthesizing relevant market research and competitive data into insights guiding commercial assessments

• Produce executive-level presentations with strong, logical, data-driven analyses

• Directly supervise day-to-day operations of Hub teams, ensuring contributors are successfully implementing GTMC processes for Sanofi. Consistent oversight of related Hub activities is performed whether Hub contributors report to this role or not.

• Collaborate with Hub contributors to fulfill business needs, conduct regular meetings with the Hub to review completed work and manage Hub activity timelines / prioritization

• Advise Hub contributors on GTMC processes, involved I&A tools, inputs and outputs as well as business principles.

• Partner with the Hub on development of projects in support of forecasting and commercial assessment

About You

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree (MBA, MS, MD, PhD) preferred

Skills and Competencies

• 7+ years or relevant experience in pharmaceutical/ biotech role with 2 to 3 years of experience in Commercial Assessment/Forecasting within Biopharma or life science consulting required with a medical/scientific advanced degree or without an advanced degree

• Excellent analytical and forecasting skills, with demonstrated ability to design, develop, and maintain short and long-term forecast model

• Strong proven thoughtful leadership, analytical, and communication skills required

• Demonstrated ability to work in a matrixed environment with many cross-functional partners; interact and communicate with all levels in the organization

• Ability to understand and guide the decisions of senior management by assessing and presenting relevant insights, drivers, and barriers

• Proactive in nature, detailed and structured thinker, and self-motivated

• Advanced knowledge of MS Office including Excel skills (including pivot tables, filtering, lookups, and index/match)

• Promotes a good working relationship with supervisors, co-workers, and staff; ability to self-manage time and to meet deadlines

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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Pursue progress , discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) !

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Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; 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.

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo)

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.

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