Job Title: Vaccines Business Development Manager
Location: Reading, UK
About The Job
As a Vaccines Business Development Manager within our Vaccines Business Unit, you'll take personal accountability for driving sales and commercial success across your defined territory. You'll build strategic relationships with priority stakeholders in key accounts, collaborate with regional healthcare stakeholders to increase vaccine uptake, and shape buying decisions through clinically differentiated engagement. Working as part of a high-performing, customer-facing team, you'll combine strong account planning, advanced selling skills, and digital proficiency to deliver long-term partnerships and territory success. Ready to get started?
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
Build and manage strong relationships with key healthcare decision-makers across your territory to support better vaccine access and uptake
Create and carry out territory and account plans to meet sales targets and build long-term partnerships
Share clear, evidence-based information about vaccines with healthcare professionals and other relevant decision-makers
Work closely with regional health service contacts to find opportunities to improve vaccine programs and services
Balance in-person and remote meetings to have meaningful conversations, set shared goals, and promote key products effectively
Take ownership of your territory's success, using good judgement and a willingness to try new approaches to reach commercial goals
Collaborate closely with colleagues across the wider team to contribute to shared business goals
About You
You have a track record in sales, business development, or account management, ideally in a healthcare or pharmaceutical setting. You understand how to build relationships and close deals.
You're a skilled communicator who can influence and persuade across different audiences. You're comfortable with face-to-face engagement, take ownership of your work, and thrive as part of a collaborative team.
You're proficient with digital tools and comfortable working across multiple platforms. You have strong analytical and planning abilities, and you're able to manage data and track performance metrics.
You have a solid understanding of the NHS vaccines landscape, guidelines, and how healthcare purchasing decisions are made.
A degree in Life Sciences, Business, or a related field is preferred but not essential — we value relevant experience and demonstrated capability.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to offering interviews to candidates who request consideration under the Scheme and meet the minimum requirements for this role.
If you have a disability and require adjustments for the interview process, please email us at [email protected]. We are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive and supportive experience for all applicants.
Visas for those who do not already have the right to work in the UK will be considered on a case by case basis according to business needs and resources.
Pursue progress, discover extraordinaryBetter 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.
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Skills Required
- Track record in sales, business development, or account management, ideally in healthcare or pharmaceutical setting
- Ability to build relationships and close deals; strong influencing and persuasion skills
- Comfortable with face-to-face engagement and hybrid (in-person/remote) meetings
- Proficiency with digital tools and multiple platforms; ability to manage data and track performance metrics
- Strong analytical and territory/account planning abilities
- Solid understanding of the NHS vaccines landscape, guidelines, and healthcare purchasing decision processes
- Degree in Life Sciences, Business, or related field
Sanofi Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support stands out through a notably strong 401K matching structure (e.g., 150% match up to a 6% contribution), which materially boosts total rewards for long-tenured employees.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental and family support is positioned as unusually robust, including a global gender-neutral paid parental leave standard (14 weeks) and added supports such as childcare assistance and adoption/surrogacy/infertility help.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity participation is made more accessible via an Employee Stock Purchase Plan that includes a meaningful purchase discount and matching/free-share mechanics, increasing perceived total compensation beyond base pay.
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What We Do
We are Sanofi, an innovative global healthcare company. We chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. Our team, across some 100 countries, is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. We provide potentially life-changing treatment options and life-saving vaccine protection to millions of people globally, while putting sustainability and social responsibility at the center of our ambitions. Interactions with this account must comply with the Terms: https://bit.ly/sanofi-terms








