• Job Title: Head – Scientific Communications, Medical Information, Graphic Studio & Creativity

• Location: Hyderabad, India 

• Hiring Manager: Global Head of Medical Solutions and Launch Excellence 

• Direct Reports: Scientific Communications Teams, Medical Information Writing Teams, Graphic Studio & Creativity Teams 

About the job

Our ambition: deliver best-in-class enterprise services enabling Sanofi to chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. Sanofi has been building the foundations of enterprise services over the past few years. With the creation of the global business unit Business Operations in 4Q 2023, we have elevated our commitment to innovation and excellence. Business Operations plays a key role for Sanofi in modernizing the way we work.

Our Team

An expert leadership team, passionate about leading high performance.

We are building for the long term. We bring people together – many of them in our hub locations around the world - which simplify processes, break down barriers and rapidly cross-fertilise the best ideas across Sanofi.

Our critical success factors:

We have identified three key drivers:

1. Community - Building a vibrant team that will attract and engage talent, across our global hubs.

2. Excellence - Simplifying, standardizing and continuously improving processes to capture synergies, scale effects and productivity improvements.

3. Digitalization - Enabling transparency, data-driven decision-making support, agility and rapid innovation across Sanofi's entire value chain. 

Strategic Context:

Head – Scientific Communications, Medical Information, Graphic Studio & Creativity is a senior leadership role which provides functional and operational leadership across three critical areas: Scientific Engagement & Communications, Medical Information, and Graphic Studio & Creativity activities for GBU operations across various therapeutic areas.

It is an excellent opportunity to lead a world-class, multi-functional team spanning Six innovation hubs — Hyderabad, Kuala Lumpur, Chengdu, Bogotá, Barcelona, and Budapest — driving scientific excellence, creative innovation, and meaningful impact for patients across the globe. The position is designed to create synergies, drive cost savings ≥100 million euros, and optimize deliveries through multi-layered teams while maintaining the highest standards of scientific excellence and creative innovation.

This role is also responsible for cultivating and promoting Sanofi's culture of innovation, collaboration, and patient-centricity across all teams and functions.

Sanofi Values alignment: This role directly supports Sanofi's mission to chase the miracles of science by:

• Aim Higher: Driving innovation in scientific communications, medical information, and creative content

• Act for Patients: Ensuring accurate, high-quality medical information reaches healthcare professionals

• Be Bold: Implementing new technologies and creative approaches

• Lead Together: Fostering collaboration across global teams and therapeutic areas

Key Responsibilities

The incumbent will be in charge of:

1. People Leadership

• Lead and manage multi-functional teams across Scientific Communications, Medical Information Writing, and Graphic Studio & Creativity departments

 • Coach and develop Group/Team Leads, experts, and similar roles across all three functional areas

• Maintain effective relationships with medical scientific community, pharmacovigilance departments, and creative stakeholders across TA(s)/GBU(s)

• Ensure new technologies are leveraged for multilayered team management: talent review, recruitment, succession planning, KPI development and validation

• Act as key contact and thought partner for content creation functions on visualization, editing, and creative deliveries

• Actively develop content enhancement associates, graphic designers, and medical information writers

• Foster Sanofi's culture of innovation, collaboration, and patient-centricity across all teams

2. Performance Excellence

• Act as strategic partner to Global Scientific Engagement & Communications, Medical Information, and Creative teams to build internal capability

• Develop and maintain expertise in key industry trends across scientific communications, medical information, and creative design

• Ensure delivery of scientific communications, medical information deliverables (scientific response documents, US FDA Annual Reports, Compendia Reviews), and creative content as per agreed timelines and quality

• Oversee layouts and designing of PowerPoint presentations, medical training materials, infographics, newsletters, posters, dashboard designs, event collaterals, e-learning modules, and mechanism of action animations

• Keep updated on new designs, trends, and share knowledge across teams

• Lead development of tools, technology, and processes to constantly improve quality and productivity

 • Ensure medical information content development meets regulatory requirements across multiple therapeutic areas

3. Process Optimization

• Support delivery of projects ensuring resourcing, quality, timeliness, efficiency, and high technical standards across all three functional areas

• Contribute to overall quality enhancement by ensuring high performance standards for scientific communications, medical information, and creative outputs

• Secure adherence to compliance procedures and internal/operational risk controls in accordance with regulatory standards

• Ensure medical documents are produced according to all relevant Sanofi global guidelines, country guidelines and policies

• Oversee comprehensive medical writing needs analysis and content planning

• Manage creative workflows for medical training materials and educational content

• Ensure creation and development of tools, technology, and processes for continuous improvement

• Ensure adherence to medical information writing guidelines and regulatory requirements for supported countries/regions

• Ensure publication and medical education materials (slide decks, abstracts, posters, manuscripts, scientific response letters) meet high creative and scientific standards

• Ensure advanced training delivery tools and techniques are leveraged to enhance effectiveness

4. Stakeholder Management

• Maintain effective relationships with end stakeholders to develop strong partnerships and understand requirements

• Partner with Medical Leads, Scientific Communication Directors, Medical Information Directors, and Creative Directors to implement regular governance

 • Collaborate with medical teams across countries/regions to identify medical writing and creative content needs

 • Liaise with Medical and Pharmacovigilance departments for customized deliverables

• Oversee design and implementation of overall action plans based on stakeholder feedback

• Work with selected vendor partners or build internal capability to deliver required solutions

• Interact effectively with external stakeholders and industry peer groups

 • Represent BO Medical in the Hyderabad Leadership Team (LT), ensuring alignment between local operations and global medical strategy

• Partner with Global Medical Information Teams and country medical information teams

About You

Experience:

• Minimum 12 years of progressive experience in Senior leadership & People Management roles in pharmaceutical/healthcare industry or academia

• Proven track record of managing multi-layered teams of ≥10 members.

• 5 years' experience in content creation (pharmaceutical company or agency) will be an added advantage.

• Experience in basic data research, editing, visualization, and translation fields

Functional and technical competencies:

• Scientific communications and publication planning expertise

• Medical Information writing and document management

• Literature search, review, and data extraction capabilities

• Graphic design and creative content development

• Visualization and data presentation expertise

• Knowledge of descriptive analyses and visualization techniques

• Knowledge of GXP regulated environment

• Experience with scientific response documents, FDA Annual Reports, and compendia reviews

• Proficiency in PowerPoint design, infographics, video editing, e-learning modules, and animation

• Content management and creative design within pharmaceutical industry

• Project management and stakeholder management

• Therapeutic area/domain knowledge across multiple GBU(s)

• Proficiency in design tools and technologies

Leadership Competencies:

• Stakeholder management and communication skills

• People management and leadership

• Ability to influence and negotiate

• Entrepreneurship and innovation mindset

• Quality awareness and attention to detail

• Strong coaching and mentoring capabilities

Languages:

• Excellent knowledge of English language (spoken and written)

• Ability to speak multiple languages fluently is advantageous

Education:

• Advanced degree (Ph.D or Master's degree and above) in Life sciences/pharmacy/similar discipline or medical degree is preferred.

• Additional degree/training in graphic and creative design is highly desirable.

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, disability, or gender identity.

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