EP & Transplant Medical Head

Location: Japan

About the job

As EP & Transplant Medical Head within our General Medicines team, you'll provide senior strategic leadership across kidney transplantation and our established portfolio, empowering the team and driving cross-functional excellence to deliver meaningful outcomes for patients. Ready to get started?

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.

About Sanofi:

We're 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.

Main responsibilities

• Design and execute medical strategies ensuring readiness for upcoming product launches — identifying unmet needs, data gaps, and critical issues to address in the Medical Plan.

• Lead publication strategy and scientific communication, including congress presentations, symposia, and Medical Advisory Boards, while building and maintaining relationships with Key Opinion Leaders through high-level scientific exchange.

• Shape field strategies in partnership with global medical directors and local counterparts to advance therapeutic awareness and scientific dialogue.

• Provide medical and scientific expertise to support life cycle management of established products, including benefit-risk assessments, divestment evaluations, and product pruning decisions.

• Manage complex medical inquiries from healthcare professionals, including off-label use cases, label change requests, and support for investigator-initiated clinical trials.

• Lead post-marketing studies, ensuring timely review and publication of clinical study reports and post-marketing surveillance data.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to contribute to brand strategy and execute activities aligned with company priorities, while empowering the team and fostering strong collaboration.

About you

• Experience: Experience as a Physician in a Hospital environment along with proven track record in senior medical leadership within a pharmaceutical environment, with a background in both R&D and/or Medical Affairs — including experience as a Medical Science Liaison and Medical Manager/Medical Advisor, with demonstrated ability to lead teams and influence across functions.

• Clinical expertise: Solid track record in clinical trial management with a strong understanding of Good Clinical Practice (GCP) and health economics, gained through progressive leadership roles.

• Scientific acumen: Deep therapeutic area knowledge with experience in medical research, development, and scientific paper writing; strong analytical thinking and data interpretation skills, with the ability to set scientific direction for a team.

• Strategic thinking: Demonstrated ability to define and drive medical strategy at a senior level, aligning organizational priorities while leading in complex, often remote or cross-border environments.

• Communication skills: Exceptional written and presentation skills, with the ability to engage effectively with Key Opinion Leaders, cross-functional teams, and global stakeholders at a senior level.

• Education: Advanced degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, or DNP in a medical specialty) required.

• Languages: Native fluency in Japanese and strong business-level fluency in English.

Why choose us?

• Help shape the future of care for transplant patients and chronic conditions, driving meaningful impact at global scale with medicines that reach more than 100 million people each year.

• Lead breakthrough medical strategies in a high-impact therapeutic area with significant upcoming product launches planned through 2030 and beyond.

• Work in a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that's rethinking how we engage with the scientific and medical community.

• Stretch your career in a development playground, with opportunities across functions, regions, and the entire product lifecycle.

• Collaborate with leading experts and Key Opinion Leaders to advance science and improve patient outcomes.

• Thrive in a workplace that combines global scale with local expertise, backed by a strong culture of collaboration and shared purpose.

• Enjoy outstanding benefits, including flexible working options, comprehensive healthcare, and well-being programs designed to help you thrive.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what's never-been-done-before. You'll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.