Community Outreach & Engagement Mgr – Southeast

About the Job

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress. Join our Community Outreach team as a Community Outreach and Engagement Manager.  

You will be responsible for developing and maintaining reliable local community relationships across designated therapeutic areas. You will focus on implementing on-site, community-oriented projects, engaging in patient education activities, reducing patient access barriers, and identifying best practices that can be leveraged across the industry to help achieve health equity.

Main responsibilities:

Region-specific community awareness, outreach, and engagement strategy: proactively plan region-specific community engagement strategy in collaboration with DICT, CSU and strategic vendors, based on emerging indications and studies. Responsible for understanding the local ecosystem and developing tailored solutions to address the community's most pressing needs. Goals include:

Develop a strategic territory business plan that increase community engagement and awareness and contribute to patient recruitment activities.

• Develop strong working relationships with KOLs and all other specialists in assigned geography as well as office staff and other important health care personnel, community organizations, trusted messengers and key patient advocacy support groups.
• Plan, organize, and execute local community engagement programs in partnership with internal/external stakeholders.
• Identification and engagement of trusted messengers/local ambassadors and potential investigators.
• Direct community feedback, focus groups and surveys.

Community engagement implementation, event planning and hosting: strategically plan, and host virtual and in-person events to foster relationships among local community members and contribute to positive wellness outcomes. Planning includes venue search, prep, and outreach to confirm attendance.

Build and maintain robust relationships with new and existing sites and investigators: develop meaningful connections with relevant site stakeholders to support productive interactions between patients, sites, Sanofi and the community. Goals include:

• Early site engagement and identification before a clinical trial – completion of a site profile assessment
• Investigator advocacy in alignment with Sanofi’s priorities to identify new sites.
• Involvement in processes that influence clinical trial operational performance.
• Boost digital and DICT implementation.
• Collate, prioritize, and recommend site-focused solutions.

Vendor and Patient Advocacy Group coordination: collaborate with Sanofi Community Alliance Network (SCAN) vendors, patient advocacy groups, and other strategic partners to launch local events and activities.

Support the implementation of R&R at the local level: work closely with Sanofi stakeholders to support sites in the identification of potential study …