COMPLETE Head of Medical - Vaccines Japan - Tokyo

Role & Responsibilities

• Define medical strategy with special focus on prioritized strategic evidence generation plans for Vaccines Japan, aligned with Regional and Global Franchise strategy
  • Lead and consolidate the required medical information and activities to develop a robust and comprehensive strategy aligned with local objectives and priorities
  • Proactively identify emerging trends, integrate them into business strategies for launch and life-cycle and assessment of public market access/ private market needs
• Shape clinical strategies pertaining development activities and post-licensure commitment of Vaccine products
• Build strong external medical and scientific relationships
  • Identification and management of all external key opinion leaders (KOL) that will help advocate the public health need of Vaccine products
  • Interact with the different KOLs and other medical specialists, facilitating scientific exchange
  • Build and maintain good relationship and partnership of Sanofi Vaccines with external stakeholders and institutions
  • Generate clinical and epidemiological evidence in close collaboration with external investigators
  • Address clinical/medical queries from external stakeholders
• Share and disclose outcome from company-sponsored studies and develop review articles that contribute to medical education and scientific exchange associated with Sanofi’s vaccine franchise and public health impact
• Provide vaccine related medical leadership and input to the Pharmacovigilance team
• Foster and encourage strong cross functional collaboration with internal stakeholders, demonstrating medical leadership and partnership
  • Work in collaboration with the different functions (eg marketing and sales, public policy, regulatory, R&D, pharmacoviligance, project management) at Global, Regional or Country level in the definition and implementation of the strategy.  
  • Provide scientific/medical input and insights to marketing and sales colleagues to maximize asset value based aligned with Franchise medical strategies
  • Provide and contribute to training activities
• Lead and manage Vaccines Japan’s medical organization
  • Drive scientific planning and content for Vaccines activities at scientific meetings
  • Execute scientific meetings with local experts (e.g. advisory board, clinical research update, masterclass)
  • Develop a leading medical organization
  • Nurture and develop Vaccines Japan Medical team members
  • Promote high performance culture
  • Provide valuable medical expertise in a compliant & ethical manner
• Be accountable for Medical Governance for Vaccines Japan
  • Medical review and approval of promotional and non-promotional materials
  • Oversight of interaction and engagement with healthcare providers

Essential Skills and Experience

• Physician with 5+ years experience in Pharmaceutical Industry leading a Medical/Clinical function
• Vaccines experience an advantage
• Knowledge/experience and/or degree in infectious disease field, vaccine field and/or healthcare
• Ability to synthesize information and translate it into actionable intelligence
• Strategic mindset with focus on execution
• Business and Market access acumen
• Ability to navigate in a matrix environment and to cooperate transversally
• Strong ability to build and maintain networks with internally and key external stakeholders
• Good Leadership and management skills
• Strong communication, influencing & negotiation skills
• Inspirational leader, flexible, self motivated, ability to establish credibility
• Interest in talent development
• Language - Japanese, English

Desirable Qualifications

• Medical Degree
• Post graduate degree/qualifications in Public Health or Infectious Disease

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