Therapeutic Area Lead (TAL) - FIELD BASED-NJ-NY-MA-CT-PA

Sanofi • Jersey City, NJ

20h • $146,250 - $211,250 • Remote

About The Position

Join the team transforming how healthcare is delivered for chronic and specialty conditions worldwide. In General Medicines, you’ll help drive meaningful outcomes in diabetes, transplant, and immunology - with the scale and urgency patients deserve. This role is for a dynamic business leader with deep allogeneic HSCT/bone marrow transplant (BMT) experience, customer knowledge, and a passion to achieve and exceed organizational success through KOL relationship development and strong collaboration with cross-functional partners. The Therapeutic Area Lead (TAL) role is a commercial field-based position focused on working closely with HSCT and graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) as the Sanofi products expert. TALs help coordinate commercial activities across functions, ensure aligned KOLs are engaged in key brand messaging and commercial strategy and gauge KOL alignment with commercial brand strategies. TALs gather KOL insights that are used internally by marketing to refine commercial strategies. This role works closely with field and home office-based colleagues in Marketing, Medical, Sales, and other internal functions, as appropriate. Sanofi is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree
• A minimum of seven years of work experience in one or more of the following: field sales, product marketing, or medical/clinical experience in the hematology/oncology therapeutic area (HSC/BMTT-focused) within the pharmaceutical/biotech industry.
• Demonstrated desire and capabilities to help us achieve new levels of success as we look to the future.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral).
• Ability to travel up to 60%-70%; to include travel to assigned customers/meetings/trainings/programs.
• Ability to assemble and lead cross-functional teams toward a shared vision of success.
• Possess strong scientific acumen and ability to articulate complex scientific concepts and data.
• Self-directed and organized with excellent execution and planning skills.
• Ability to adapt and change in a shifting environment.
• Ability to appropriately and effectively leverage expertise and knowledge of disease state, clinical information, strategic thinking, the marketplace, knowledge of competitors, and industry to anticipate and effectively manage business opportunities and challenges with key customers, while adhering to all of Sanofi company ethics, and compliance standards.
• The ability to execute tactical initiatives, provide ongoing feedback, and prioritize multiple projects.

Nice To Haves

• Degree in life science or business; Advanced degree a plus
• Experience leading teams
• Experience working in one or more of the following areas: Consulting, Pharma Healthcare
• Proficient with MS Office, Customer Management databases

Responsibilities

• Engage KOL customers on pre-identified disease education and brand topics (e.g., GVHD education to referring specialties like Dermatology, Pulmonology, Gastroenterology, OB/GYN).
• Support KOL influence-mapping initiatives, developing profiles and engagement/communication plans for each assigned KOL.
• Act as primary liaison to collaborate with relevant matrix stakeholders (Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Medical Affairs, etc.).
• Execute peer-to-peer strategies, address customer needs, anticipate market trends, and uncover competitive intelligence, ensuring delivery against business objectives.
• Work with field and office-based colleagues to identify, contract, and train promotional speakers.
• Provide real-time assessment of speaker and program effectiveness.
• Provide consistent feedback to aligned KOLs to enhance their effectiveness as speakers.
• Strategically allocate high-demand speakers across the country based on educational needs.
• Assess speaker utilization and program logistics to ensure compliance with corporate policies and guidelines.
• Gain and synthesize feedback in support of the evolution of promotional programming content.
• Collaborate and coordinate with the commercial team on KOL recruitment for ad hoc initiatives such as commercial ad boards, sales training initiatives, presentations at sales meetings, and content development for commercial programs.
• Plan, organize, and execute strategic National and Regional Congress activity, including product theater, KOL interaction, sponsorship opportunity, commercial booth development, and staffing.

Benefits

• Endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or a lateral move, at home or internationally.
• A thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs.
• At least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
• Company car through the Company’s FLEET program.
• Eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees