Job title: Global Scientific Content Manager - HEVA and PDMD
• Hiring Manager: Head/Group Lead/Team Lead – Scientific Writing
• Location: Hyderabad
• % of travel expected: As per business need
• Job type: Permanent and Full time
About the job
Our Team: Sanofi Business Operations (SBO) is an internal Sanofi resource organization setup to centralize processes and activities to support Specialty Care, Vaccines, General Medicines, CHC, CMO, and R&D, Data & Digital functions. SBO strives to be a strategic and functional partner for tactical deliveries to Medical, HEVA (including Patient-Driven Medicines Development [PDMD]), and Commercial organizations in Sanofi, Globally.
Main responsibilities: The overall purpose and main responsibilities are listed below:
• Scientific Engagement • Support the development of the integrated strategy for scientific expert engagement; scientific congress, scientific events and medical education; scientific dissemination; and multichannel engagement (in collaboration with global and local colleagues covering this area) for the assigned therapeutic area/products.
• Ensure timely execution of the scientific dissemination, scientific expert engagement, and medical multichannel engagement plans for global and countries.
• Support the development of engagement plans by identifying new multi-channel customer facing/engagement initiatives that will enhance the customer experience for scientific and medical learning and improvement of patient care, incorporating patient-centric perspectives and patient-reported outcomes (PROs).
• Closely track emerging and evolving digital technologies across industries, with a focus on healthcare & pharmaceutical industries, leveraging proof of concept to test ideas and channels.
• Support the development and expansion of a network of experts in the disease areas of responsibility through expert/KOL mapping activities that includes identification, profiling, and segmentation of international experts including emerging leaders and rising stars. Work closely with geographic segments/regions and countries to harmonize expert mapping activities and engagement plans.
• Establish and maintain professional and collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders, KOLs, scientific and academic societies, patient association and advocacy groups, medical communication and strategy companies involved.
• Attend the medical meetings, advisory boards, outreach meetings at key institutions, and interact with key experts, academic societies, and advocacy groups.
• Support the management and oversight of Scientific Congresses / Events, Donations and Other Contributions, advisory board planning & organization, compliance & transparency requirements.
• Scientific Publications and Medical Communications • Support the development and oversight of strategic scientific publication plans and execution of operational and tactical activities within the overall medical communication platforms for assigned products/disease areas of responsibility (including HEVA and PDMD research outputs such as patient-reported outcomes, qualitative patient studies, and real-world evidence).
• Support the planning and proposal of content deliverables aligned with the strategic imperatives supporting the assigned products/disease areas. This includes reviewing and identifying relevant clinical findings, disease burden, unmet needs, patient-reported outcomes, and then proposing the development of corresponding compelling content.
• Serve as a key scientific reviewer, performing thorough quality control, scientific/clinical accuracy checks, and peer review of all draft manuscripts, abstracts, posters, slide decks, and value communication documents prior to stakeholder/author circulation.
• Ensuring timely delivery of high-quality, fair-balanced, scientifically/clinically accurate medical communications resources (including but not limited to proactive/reactive manuscript and poster/oral presentation slide decks, scientific platforms, lexicons, FAQs/trainings, symposia materials, medical booth materials, webinars, congress related microsites), scientific publication projects (including but not limited to manuscripts, abstracts, posters, and oral presentations, and enhanced content such as video, infographic, PLS, and podcast), internal communication and education resources (including but not limited to publication alerts, yammer communication of publications and congress events, pre-congress training slide deck, congress newsletters and reports), and integration of digital enhancements in medical publications in accordance with established timelines, compliance guidelines/policies, and budgets, in collaboration with the scientific writers and occasionally external agencies.
• Providing oversight, quality control, scientific review, and project management, for scientific publication and medical communication projects, ensuring accuracy, quality, and adherence to project timelines.
• Providing direction, constructive editorial review, and guidance to internal and external scientific writers, stakeholders, and regional partners regarding assigned projects, to ensure high-quality alignment with medical/scientific objectives, content development and dissemination processes, and adherence to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of international requirements and guidance associated with scientific publications/medical communications and their associated tools (iEnvision, PromoMats etc.).
• Ensure global and local teams are informed about the availability and relevance of developed content assets.
• Analyse regularly content usage data to evolve medical content development.
• Additional • Maintain a keen understanding of the key stakeholder and patient community needs.
• Incorporate customer-specific insights, gaps, patient burden/lived experience insights, and needs in crafting strategies supporting overall medical/business priorities.
• Support the adoption of innovative content formats and processes, staying current with internal content evolution and industry trends.
• Ensure designated activities are appropriately executed, adherent to corporate SOPs and policies, and consistent with relevant external scientific, legal, and regulatory standards.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues as well as cross-functionally within a matrix organization (including HEVA, Global Medical Affairs, and Clinical teams) to ensure that information and knowledge transfer is conducted with internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintain transparency with peers and colleagues across the organization, to produce aligned strategy and tactics, while promoting synergy and avoiding duplication of effort.
• People: (1) Maintain effective relationship with the stakeholders (medical affairs, HEVA/PDMD, marketing, communications, regulatory affairs, medical scientific community etc.) within the allocated Global Business Unit and product – with an end objective to disseminate education and communication content as per requirement; (2) Interact effectively with internal teams and health care professionals on developed content; and (3) Constantly guide mentor, and peer-review the work of scientific writers in developing content and sharing expertise
• Performance: (1) Oversee the development, scientific review, quality assurance, and ensure delivery of publication/medical education material (slide deck, abstract, poster, manuscript, patient-centric materials, etc.) aligned with medical strategy as per agreed timelines and quality; (2) Provide strategic inputs with individuals and institutions, which may serve as resources for publications and medical communications purpose; (3) Ensure the successful achievement of goals, operating within all policies, procedures, and guidance to ensure compliance with SOPs, including transparency reporting
• Process: (1) Support in driving publication/medical communication processes and document review workflows; (2) Act as an expert in the assigned therapeutic area(s) and patient-driven methodology; (3) Assist the medical team in conducting comprehensive publication-need analysis; (4) Assist in driving the publication/medical communications plan and associated activities for the year identified for the region; (5) Work with selected vendors within the region to deliver the required deliverables as per defined process, providing critical scientific review of vendor outputs; (6) Leverage advanced training delivery tools and techniques thereby enhancing the effectiveness of training delivery; and (7) Support in designing an overall plan of action based on end-user feedback and improve course content and delivery
• Stakeholder: (1) Work closely with medical and HEVA/PDMD teams globally and in regions/areas to identify publication needs and assist in developing assigned deliverables and (2) Liaise with medical department (global and local teams) to prepare relevant and customized deliverables
About you
• Experience: >8 years of experience in the pharmaceutical or related healthcare industry, with 2-3 years of understanding in all aspects of scientific publication and medical communications strategy, planning, and execution during all phases of drug development and post-launch/marketed products. Hands-on experience in peer reviewing scientific manuscripts, qualitative patient research, or HEVA/PDMD deliverables is highly desirable.
• Soft skills: Strong cross-functional collaboration, teamwork, and stakeholder management; outstanding interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with exceptional time management skills; demonstrated peer-review and critical evaluation skills; ability to work independently and effectively in an internal and external environment; track record of managing multiple conflicting priorities in a rapidly evolving environment with successful outcomes; ability/willingness to maintain professional relationship with KOLs, scientific organizations/societies, advocacy groups, HCP authors, journals and publishers; strategic/critical thinking and problem-solving attitude; leadership, planning, organizing and negotiation skills; innovative mindset to help evolve current approaches to scientific engagement and communication/publications
• Technical skills: Therapeutic area/domain knowledge exposure; publication and medical communication processes; and/or project management; understanding of clinical trial, patient-reported outcomes (PROs), qualitative research methods, and real-world evidence study design and execution, statistical methods, and reporting requirements; ability to critically review scientific literature, data, and written content for accuracy, tone, and logical flow; knowledge of industry guidelines pertaining to stakeholder engagement and interactions with healthcare providers; understanding of good publication practices and guidance (GPP4, ICJME), Sunshine Act, Pharma Code of Conduct, and other guidance related to data communication; familiarity with publication and medical communication management tools (iEnvision, PromoMats, CRM); scientific expertise in assigned disease area and experience with digital/innovative technology is highly preferred
• Education: Advanced degree in life sciences/pharmacy/similar discipline or medical degree
• Languages: Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)
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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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!