About this opportunity
JOB PURPOSE:
The Central Medical Lead assumes overall responsibility for leading the Medical Manager (MM) team in the Dupilumab Dermatology & Respiratory therapeutic area. This role is tasked with building a robust medical foundation and driving excellence across the full product lifecycle, establishing scientific credibility with external stakeholders, and partnering with Marketing and Business Units to achieve business objectives. By aligning internal and external resources to maximize medical value, the role advances Sanofi’s healthcare mission and vision.
KEY RESPONSIBILITY
Ø Lead end-to-end lifecycle management, deliver measurable results, and retain a high-performing team within the Dermatology & Respiratory therapeutic area.
Ø Oversee the MM team in developing and executing medical strategy and plans, providing comprehensive medical support for Dupilumab in alignment with organizational priorities and requirements.
Ø Establish academic platforms and collaborative channels with leading Chinese academic societies in the defined therapeutic area, to deliver Sanofi’s product messaging to key opinion leaders (KOLs) and stakeholders, and maintain and strengthen the Group’s scientific standing. Build strategic partnerships to shape policy through evidence-based medical expertise.
Ø Drive cross-functional collaboration across medical excellence, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, clinical operations, R&D, marketing, sales, government affairs, medical information services, epidemiology/health economics/outcomes research, medical education, and medical publication functions, to ensure optimal execution of the medical plan.
Ø Provide scientific input and guidance for post-marketing clinical programs (including Phase IV trials and registries) for Dupilumab. Ensure all data is scientifically valid, aligned with strategic objectives, and effectively communicated to relevant stakeholders (via reports, publications, presentations at congresses, or company-sponsored events). Offer scientific support for the management of investigator-sponsored studies, in strict adherence to the Group’s policies and guidelines.
Ø Collaborate closely with Regulatory Affairs and R&D teams to deliver scientific input on unmet medical need assessments and product value propositions, ensuring an optimized local registration strategy for new products and/or new indications.
Ø Deliver medical and scientific support to marketing and sales activities, including: providing medical point-of-view input into marketing strategy, supporting round tables, symposia, and medical education initiatives, liaising with key opinion leaders, developing scientific communications, delivering sales training, reviewing and validating promotional materials for scientific integrity and compliance with Group procedures
Ø Ensure robust scientific and medical compliance, governance, and risk management, centered on an optimized patient-focused risk/benefit framework, for all assigned products and tasks.
JOB-HOLDER ENTRY REQUIREMENTS:
Education:
Medical , master degree or above
Experience & knowledge:
Ø 10+ years’ experience in industry and 3+ years in team management positions
Ø 5+ years’ clinical experience (dermatology or respiratory or immunology) is preferred
Ø Solid skill in team managing, coaching & collaborating is preferred
Core competencies:
Ø Medical and scientific knowledge in clinical research, publication, and medical projects
Ø Business acumen
Ø Influencing communication
Ø Planning and Organizing
Ø Building Partnership
Ø Fluent English speaking and writing quality
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
How this role compares
Computed from every other active Medical Affairs role in our database, not just this employer's listings.
We currently track 1694 comparable Medical Affairs roles across 180 biopharma companies.
Salary context
375 of 1694 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)
Peers share this role's job function. This posting doesn't list a seniority level, so peers aren't narrowed by seniority either -- the range below may span more levels than usual.
Where these roles are based
Top locations among the 1694 comparable roles
+ 58 more countries
Seniority mix
1039 of 1694 peers have a known seniority level
Therapeutic area mix
595 of 1694 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden
Similar opportunities
The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.
Notify me about similar jobs
Get an email when we spot other openings like this one – same job function, comparable seniority, roles you'd actually want to see.
Or follow a whole field: get every new Medical Affairs job in China, and choose locations and companies.
How we calculate "similar"
No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.
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.
0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.