Sanofi
Pharmaceutical
ResearchandDevelopment-ScientificCompetitiveIntelligenceLead
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“Research and Development - Scientific Competitive Intelligence Lead at Sanofi. Skills: Competitive intelligence, Pharmaceutical R&D, Strategic analysis. Lead development of competitive insights. Inform therapeutic area strategy”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive measurable business impact; Accelerate progress; Protect Sanofi's competitive position; Ensure pipeline sustainability; Drive sustained success; Ensure sustainable portfolio strategy; Robust valuation and prioritization of R&D portfolio; Optimization of resources; High quality pipeline reporting; High quality investment governance; Inform pipeline positioning; Anticipate competitive threats; Identify growth opportunities; Drive measurable business outcomes; Maximize organizational impact
Industry & Context.
Analytical thinking abilities; Strategic thinking abilities; Translate complex data into actionable business recommendations
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's degree with 10+ years' experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Master's degree with 5+ years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry, Deep scientific knowledge of the drug development process, Familiarity with clinical development, Familiarity with regulatory aspects
Nice to Have
Advanced degree, Therapeutic area expertise in Rare Diseases, Therapeutic area expertise in Neurology, Therapeutic area expertise in Ophthalmology, Experience leading / mentoring high-performing teams
What You'll Do.
Lead development of competitive insights
Inform therapeutic area strategy
Inform portfolio decisions
Inform lifecycle management
Act as CI strategic advisor
Translate business questions into intelligence priorities
Lead team of CI analysts
Ensure optimal allocation of R&D resources
Engage in Portfolio Strategy Week
Integrate external market perspectives
Collaborate with stakeholders
Integrate diverse inputs
Accelerate decision velocity
Improve decision quality
Demonstrate measurable CI value
Quantify how insights inform decisions
Mitigate competitive threats
Partner with R&D Strategy
Partner with Portfolio Analytics
Partner with Benchmarking
Build competitive advantage
Identify opportunities to enhance CI capabilities
Implement opportunities to enhance CI practices
Implement opportunities to enhance CI strategic impact
Support CI digitization roadmap
Pilot use of AI/GenAI
Democratize access to Sanofi competitive environment
Lead strategic CI initiatives
Represent function in cross-functional projects
Contribute to building CI organization
Provide leadership to off-shore CI teams
Provide mentorship to off-shore CI teams
Provide strategic direction to off-shore CI teams
Ensure alignment between CI outputs
Validate insights before dissemination
Oversee prioritization of activities
Participate in recruitment of CI talent
Participate in onboarding of CI talent
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with a broad range of stakeholders (R/D/C/M); Partner strategically with R&D Strategy, Portfolio Analytics, and Benchmarking
Communication Scope
Excellent communication skills; Excellent presentation skills; Ability to influence senior executives; Ability to influence key stakeholders; Compelling data storytelling
Full Job Description
**Job title:** Research and Development - Scientific Competitive Intelligence Lead **Location:** Cambridge, MA / Morristown, NJ **R &D Scientific Competitive Intelligence Lead – Rare & Neurology Diseases and Ophthalmology** **About the Job** Join the engine of Sanofi’s mission — where deep immunoscience meets bold, AI-powered research. In R&D, you’ll drive breakthroughs that could turn the impossible into possible for millions. Are you ready to shape the future of medicine and drive measurable business impact? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your strategic insights will be critical in accelerating progress and protecting Sanofi's competitive position in high-value therapeutic areas. The Global R&D Strategy and Portfolio Management team’s overarching objective is to equip Sanofi’s leaders with robust, objective and externally focused insights and recommendations they need to make better informed R&D strategy, and portfolio and project investment decisions to ensure pipeline sustainability. We achieve this by (1) delivering a comprehensive R&D strategy positioning the organization to embrace future opportunities and challenges, driving sustained success (2) by ensuring a sustainable portfolio strategy, robust valuation and prioritization of the R&D portfolio and optimization of resources, high quality pipeline reporting, benchmarking, and scientific competitive intelligence (3) by ensuring high quality investment governance incorporating decision quality and thoughtful risk taking principles. As part of the R&D Portfolio Strategy and Management team, the Scientific Competitive Intelligence group works with key stakeholders across the organization (such as but not limited to, R&D and GBUs)—to deliver robust competitive insights that enable data-driven assessments, guide technology investments, identify white space and asset strategy decisions _**Position Overview:**_ The Portfolio Strategy & Man
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