Aventis Pharma Limited Posted August 20, 2026

Vaccines Business Development Manager

Restricted Posting, United Kingdom Full time
Sales Vaccines & Infectious Disease Manager

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About this opportunity

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 diversity.recruitmentUKIE@sanofi.com. 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 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.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com !

Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Sales
Therapeutic area
Vaccines & Infectious Disease
Location
Restricted Posting, United Kingdom
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Sales role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 659 comparable Manager Sales roles across 81 biopharma companies.

659Comparable roles tracked
603Currently active
81Companies hiring similar roles
54Countries represented

Salary context

189 of 659 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.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Lowest disclosed · Sr. Inside Sales Business Development Manager · AbbVie $27/hr – $48/hr (≈ $56,160–$99,840/yr)
Highest disclosed · Regional General Manager - Vaccines Southeast · Sanofi Vaccines US Inc. $232,500/yr – $387,500/yr
Peer group range $78,000 – $310,000 (median $185,000)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 659 comparable roles

United States385
India35
China34
Germany27
Poland13
Vietnam12

+ 48 more countries

Seniority mix

659 of 659 peers have a known seniority level

Manager606
Associate Director40
Associate13

Therapeutic area mix

180 of 659 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

Oncology75
Dermatology & Aesthetics23
Rare Disease20
Vaccines & Infectious Disease15
Cardiovascular / CVRM15
Neuroscience11
Immunology10
Respiratory8
Gastroenterology2
Ophthalmology1

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