Director, Global Rezurock Marketing Lead

Job title: Director, Global Rezurock Marketing Lead

Location: Morristown, NJ / Cambridge, MA

About the job

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. 

Sanofi is a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health, preventing illness with vaccines, and providing innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

The Transplant Franchise is a strategic growth driver within Sanofi's General Medicines innovative portfolio, with an annual turnover of approximately €1bn today and projected to grow into a > €5bn Franchise by 2035. Following the 2021 acquisition of Kadmon Holdings, Sanofi has strengthened its position in the transplant market with FDA-approved Rezurock™, which since then has further expanded its reach into more than 12 markets. Our transplant business also includes Thymoglobulin, a well-established anti-thymocyte globulin preparation.

Sanofi aims to revolutionize transplant treatment paradigms across solid organ, hematopoietic, adjuvant and supportive care with the vision of "one organ for life." This strategic leadership position drives our global transplant franchise with direct GBU Leadership Team reporting, representing both a critical specialty care growth opportunity and a key steppingstone for future executive leadership

Job Overview:

The Director, Global Rezurock Marketing Lead is a senior role within the Global Transplant Franchise. This individual will be responsible for orchestrating and driving the global brand plan development and commercial execution of Rezurock (belumosudil) across two critical indications: chronic Graft-versus-Host Disease (cGVHD) and Chronic Lung Allograft Dysfunction (CLAD) .

The role requires deep expertise in specialty care with the ability to operate across complex, multi-stakeholder global environments.

This is a high-visibility, cross-functional leadership role reporting to the franchise head and will work in close collaboration with Medical Affairs, Market Access, Corporate Affairs, Digital, Regulatory, and regional commercial teams.

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:

A critical success factor for this role is the rare ability to operate with equal excellence at both the strategic and operational levels. This role demands a unique blend of strategic acumen and operational rigor.

Strategic Responsibilities

• Customer Insight & Market Intelligence: Drive deep understanding of the patient journey, HCP decision-making dynamics, and competitive landscape across both indications. Track quickly changes and define key implications for the brand strategy or the activation plan.

• Global Brand Strategy: Develop and own the integrated global brand plan for Rezurock across CLAD and cGVHD indications, from strategy to activation plan by mobilizing the cross functional glocal team, applying SILC standards and ensuring alignment with the overall Transplant franchise vision

• Launch readiness: Establish the commercial readiness and go-to-market strategy for the CLAD indication.

• Communication strategy: translate evidence data into powerful communication platforms to support market shaping or brand differentiation on both indications.

Execution-Focused Responsibilities

• Activation Plan Orchestration: By strategic imperative, orchestrate the execution of the cross-functional activation plan with the glocal team, ensuring on-time and on-standard delivery across all workstreams.

• Campaign & Content Development: Lead the creation of global branded and unbranded campaign, from concept through to in-market deployment.

• Omnichannel Engagement: Partner with the Customer Engagement Lead to establish impactful omnichannel engagement strategies tailored to the targeted HCP and patient audiences.

• Regional Enablement: Develop global-to-local toolkits and brand guidance to enable affiliate teams across the US, EU, and international markets to execute with consistency and speed.

• Performance Monitoring: Define brand KPIs, track commercial performance dashboards, and translate insights into actionable strategic pivots in partnership with business analytics teams.

• Budget & Resource Management: Manage the global brand budget with rigor, ensuring optimal allocation across indications, geographies, and tactical priorities

About you

Experience:

• Global and/or Local Marketing Experience: Proven track record in a global and/or local marketing role with leading experience in developing brand strategies and driving commercial execution. Preferable to have US experience

• Product Launch Experience: Demonstrated experience leading or significantly contributing to a specialty disease product launch, including pre-launch planning, HCP engagement, and post-launch performance management.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: Experience working in matrix organizations, leading cross-functional brand teams including Medical Affairs, Market Access, Regulatory, and Sales without direct line authority.

• Experience Omni-Channel Strategy Development: demonstrated experience in crafting and implementing comprehensive omni-channel strategies, with a special emphasis on integrated digital experience

Skills:

• Data-Driven Decision Making and strategic thinking: Strong capability to interpret market research, epidemiology data, sales analytics, and patient-level data to inform differentiated brand strategies with long-term commercial impact and measure brand performance.

• Conceptual and Creative/Distruptive Thinking: Strong ability to employ conceptual thinking in identifying innovative solutions, and out-of-the-box thinking to challenge conventional wisdom and drive brand growth

• Relationship Building & Influence: Ability to cultivate effective relationships and to influence and collaborate internally and externally at all organizational levels.

• Agility Mindset & Proactiveness: Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment, managing multiple priorities across indications and geographies. Based on insights, be proactive in bringing ideas, solutions and guidance on how to evolve strategy or execution.

• Project Management: Expertise in managing complex, parallel marketing initiatives across two therapeutically and commercially distinct indications simultaneously.

• Scientific Acumen: Strong ability to understand and translate complex clinical data into compelling, compliant commercial narratives.

• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications in marketing, such as customer data analysis, segmentation, personalization and automation. The ability to incorporate AI-driven insights and technologies to enhance marketing effectiveness and customer experience

Education:

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Medicine

• Strongly Preferred: MBA or advanced degree (MSc, PharmD, MD) with a focus on marketing, strategy, or a relevant scientific discipline

Languages:

• Strongly Preferred: MBA or advanced degree (MSc, PharmD, MD) with a focus on marketing, strategy, or a relevant scientific discipline

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. 

Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive 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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US and Puerto Rico Residents Only

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; 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. Additional benefits information can be found through the LINK.