Associate Director Commercial Excellence, US Vaccines

Job title: Associate Director Commercial Excellence, US Vaccines

• Location: Remote, US

About the Job:

As an Associate Director Commercial Excellence, US Vaccines for the Sanofi Vaccines Team, you are a leader with excellent influential leadership and business acumen skills. You are known for your ability to identify and exploit business opportunities with a great focus on developing and execution of sustainable business plans. You are a strong cross-functional collaborator with high accountability in helping your region drive peak performance. 

Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI-driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.

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

• Operational excellence and strategic support to ensure seamless execution of product and portfolio sales strategy       

• Support Regional General Managers and Head of Commercial Excellence by regularly reviewing key upcoming business updates, daily meetings, and major focus projects to determine any preparations needed, deliverables, planning or preliminary stakeholder engagement follow-ups to ensure level of readiness for each key meeting and /or business update

• Lead and coordinate the national and regional level business planning process and business review process. This includes identifying and holding the matrix team accountable to local Critical Business Priorities

• Partner with GTMC to continuously improve insights and analytics needs and advancing our integrated omnichannel approach

• Pull and analyze call activity data and deliver on ad hoc analyses when required

• Develop and lead National implementation of brand/marketing strategies. (i.e., account initiatives, POA, field-based tactics)

• Support and drive the project management of special projects as determined by the needs of the key priorities within the organization

• Embed new ways of working/ elevate execution

• Define and drive the collaborative & effective ways of working between field sales and account management

• Lead national pull through initiative efforts and monitor plan for success

• Develop insights on regional performance trends leveraging consistent KPI’s in concert with the head of sales, head of commercial excellence, and regional sales directors ensure metrics are being met

• Identify and share best practices to multiply usage and implementation across nation/ enhance execution/ drive impact

• Support business operations excellence

• Drive Sales Force Effectiveness through 1:1’s dialogues with Field Leadership intended to identify specific local performance gaps and drivers

• Responsible for supporting on operations and execution of POA meetings and other relevant sales meetings

About You:

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS from an accredited school required.

• 3+ years of successful cross-functional experience with home office / operations / sales / commercial excellence expertise

• Ability to influence without authority a matrix team consisting of Sales, BO&S, digital, and Marketing members.

• Ability to work internally with home office

• Experience leading or working on multi – level operational plans or key projects

• Proficiency in understanding sales and marketing strategy, and demonstrates ability to deliver support and solutions

• An inspiring change agent mindset who is willing to challenge the status quo and align others to help drive business transformation

• Strategic and analytic skills with the ability to translate complex data sets into action plans.

• Possess effective communication and change agility skills

• Ability to travel to Home Office and key sales meetings

Preferred Qualifications:

• Focus on business, life sciences or public health preferred.

• 3+ years of successful field leadership experience with home office / operations / commercial excellence experience preferred

• Experience in both marketing and a sales related function

• Leader in an ever-evolving environment, with demonstrated use of change management strategies/tactics to influence new ways of thinking and working

• Manages conflict with composure and demonstrates managerial courage

• Embodies Sanofi’s Take the Lead behaviors to support a cultural transformation

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. 

• Work at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology.

• Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare.

• Develop your career with access to mentoring, international mobility programs, and opportunities to grow across four continents.

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.

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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.