Manager -Rare Diseases
About this opportunity
Job Title: Manager – Rare Diseases
Location: Jaipur
About the Job
Our Team
At Sanofi, we are committed to transforming the lives of patients through innovative healthcare solutions. Sanofi is a pioneer in Rare Disease therapy.
The Manager – Rare Diseases role is a regional business role responsible for driving growth, improving patient access, and achieving business objectives through strategic customer engagement, market development, and effective execution of sales strategies.
This role involves direct engagement with healthcare professionals, key stakeholders, and strategic accounts to understand customer needs, create value for Sanofi’s Rare Disease portfolio, and implement initiatives that enhance customer satisfaction and patient benefit.
The role requires strong collaboration with cross-functional teams and an ability to build a sustainable Rare Disease ecosystem through partnerships with Medical Affairs, Market Access, Marketing, Tender, Trade, and Public Affairs teams.
About Sanofi:
Sanofi is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Now, with its Take the Lead Strategy the objective is to make a greater impact on patients, healthcare systems, and society at large scale. This means (i) pioneering an innovative pipeline and executing transformative launches at scale to bring life-changing new medicines and vaccines to more people, more quickly (ii) modernizing and deploying resources with agility (iii) building a sustainable business that tackles the most urgent healthcare, environmental, and societal challenges of our time
Sanofi India is implementing an ambitious transformation plan aligned with our Take the Lead Strategy and Values, with 3 main objectives (i) achieve our target growth for the Diabetes portfolio in Public and Private market (ii) Foster empowerment and autonomy at customer level to create a customer centricity approach (iii) Implement contemporary ways of working for better efficiency
Main Responsibilities
Sales & Business Development
Customer Engagement & CRM Effectiveness
Product Knowledge & Promotional Execution
Rare Disease Business Model & Market Access
Compliance & Ethics
About You
Main Requirements
10–12 years of experience in Pharmaceutical Sales / Channel Sales / Institutional Sales.
Experience in Rare Disease or Specialty Care is preferred.
Experience managing healthcare professionals, KOLs, strategic accounts, and institutional stakeholders.
Strong understanding of business development, market dynamics, and customer engagement.
Graduate degree in Science or Pharmacy.
Strong communication and influencing skills.
Ability to work collaboratively across multiple functions.
Strong execution mindset with focus on achieving business objectives.
Professional Skills That Make the Difference
Customer-first mindset with the ability to understand and address customer needs.
Strategic thinking and ability to identify new business opportunities.
Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building capabilities.
Ability to adapt strategies based on market insights and customer feedback.
Strong collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
Ability to embrace new ways of working and agile methodologies.
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, ability or gender identity.
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How this role compares
Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 436 comparable Manager Sales roles across 63 biopharma companies.
Salary context
85 of 436 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 436 comparable roles
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Seniority mix
436 of 436 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
122 of 436 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
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Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.
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