Global Franchise Commercialization Lead, Rare Diseases

Job title: Global Franchise Commercialization Lead, Rare Diseases

Location: Remote - Cambridge, MA

About the Job

Be the strategic driver of the Franchise commercialization strategy, ensuring alignment with the Global Franchise Head, Brand Leads, Regional Heads, and key markets. Develop streamlined approaches to strategic exercises such as commercial planning, launch strategies, resource allocation, and budgeting, ensuring commercial success. As a key commercial leader, you will act as an advocate for markets and a conduit for global strategy.

This role requires advanced strategic thinking, a cross-functional approach to problem-solving, and the ability to influence senior leadership, making data-driven decisions that shape long-term commercial success.

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:

Strategy:

• Develop Insight-Driven Commercialization Strategies: Formulate and implement comprehensive commercialization strategies, leveraging market insights and competitive intelligence to inform data-driven, long-term decisions.

• Market Insights & Strategic Foresight: Regularly gather and synthesize insights from local markets, using structured problem-solving frameworks to integrate them into global strategies that are adaptable and forward-looking.

• Launch Preparedness & Market Readiness: Ensure cross-functional launch excellence, aligning global and local teams through rigorous project management and stakeholder engagement.

• Strategic Resource Allocation: Partner with local markets to identify and allocate resources effectively, applying analytical frameworks to optimize resource use for growth.

• Lifecycle Management: Advocate for local needs in lifecycle management, ensuring continued competitiveness and relevance through proactive strategy adjustments.

Execution:

• Global Market Representation: Be the voice of key markets at global forums, advocating for resource allocation and strategic adjustments, and applying consulting-style approaches to resolve market-specific challenges.

• Performance-Driven Execution: Set ambitious growth targets, applying data analysis and strategic problem-solving to help markets meet and exceed goals.

• Knowledge Sharing & Best Practices: Promote effective communication and the dissemination of global best practices across regions, applying strategic insights to foster innovation.

• Market Access & Pricing Strategy: Contribute to strategically oriented market access and pricing decisions to ensure portfolio competitiveness across markets.

Leadership:

• Influence & Strategic Collaboration: Lead and influence Franchise Heads and cross-functional teams to align with corporate strategies, applying a structured, consulting-style approach to decision-making and problem resolution.

• Talent & Leadership Development: Partner with regional leaders to structure high-performing teams, fostering strategic thinking and long-term development within local franchises.

• Strategic Brand Planning: Guide the creation of local business plans, ensuring they are aligned with global strategies and are informed by robust market analysis.

• Proactive Problem Solving: Anticipate and resolve deviations from expected outcomes through innovative problem-solving and data-driven adjustments to execution plans.

About You

Qualifications:

Educational Background: 

• Degree in business, science, or a related discipline; an advanced degree (e.g., MBA) is preferred.

Experience: 

• Minimum 10 years of leadership experience in marketing, sales, or commercial roles with P&L responsibility. Strategic consulting experience or a demonstrated ability to apply consulting frameworks is highly desirable.

Other Skills

• Global and Local Expertise: Experience in both global and local roles; European experience is preferred.

• Proven Track Record: Demonstrated success in building relationships, influencing without authority, and resolving issues using strategic thinking.

• High Ownership: Strong accountability for market performance and achieving objectives.

• Cross-Functional Perspective: Ability to view issues from multiple functional perspectives and work collaboratively across departments.

• Leadership & Talent Development: Experience in coaching, developing, and inspiring teams to achieve strategic and commercial excellence.

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.

The salary range for this position is $201,000.00 - $268,000.00 USD Annually. All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs. Additional benefits information can be found through the link, www.benefits.sanofiusallwell.com

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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.

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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.