Location: Netherlands

Job type: Permanent, Full time

This is a hybrid (field/office-based) position that can be performed from anywhere in the Netherlands

About the job:

The Medical Engagement Lead (MEL) within our Transplant Medical Affairs team, serves as the strategic medical leader for the therapeutic area (specifically chronic GVHD), responsible for shaping and executing the medical engagement strategy across the product lifecycle. This role ensures strong scientific leadership, impactful stakeholder engagement, and close cross-functional collaboration to drive the medical excellence and credibility of the company within the transplant landscape. The MEL acts as the key medical point of contact internally and externally, representing the company’s scientific vision while ensuring ethical, compliant, and evidence‑based medical activities.

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:

• Engage proactively and reactively with healthcare professionals and institutions in an omnichannel manner, exchanging medical and scientific information during one-to-one interactions and group settings

• Organize and facilitate local group scientific meetings (hospital staff meetings, webinars, etc.) with KOLs and HCPs according to the Stakeholder Engagement plan, aligned with the Transplant Medical plan

• Develop and maintain trusted partnerships through scientific engagement and exchange with healthcare professionals and institutions in a rapidly evolving healthcare environment

• Provide high-quality, accurate, balanced, and directed information to key external stakeholders in response to unsolicited requests, support investigators in IIR submissions, and manage local advisory board

• Develop and execute individual stakeholder engagement plans aligned with the Medical Plan, generating high-value, actionable insights and proposing solutions

• Contribute to and manage evidence-generation activities, supporting both internal evidence-generation projects and investigator-initiated studies (IISs)

• Collaborate with Market Access teams by contributing to market access dossiers and providing medical-specific input, while communicating clinical value to population-health and formulary decision makers

• Maintain full compliance with company, industry, legal, and regulatory requirements while collaborating effectively with internal stakeholders and overseeing approval of medical and marketing materials

About you:

• Experience: Proven track record in stakeholder strategy, planning, and engagement within the pharmaceutical or healthcare industry; experience in field-based medical roles is highly valued

• Soft skills: Strategic thinking with strong business acumen; excellent interpersonal relationship skills with ability to build trust and collaborate across functions; learning agility and adaptability in dynamic environments

• Technical skills: Profound ability to deliver impactful scientific exchange; disease and therapeutic area knowledge; proficiency with CRM tools; understanding of country market access frameworks; effective in using multiple channels and formats for scientific engagements

• Education: MD, Pharmacist/PharmD, PhD, or Master of Science degree (required)

• Languages: Fluent level in spoken and written business English; native or mother tongue proficiency in local country language

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it's through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally

• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact

• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks' gender-neutral parental leave

• Work in a hybrid role with autonomy and flexibility, building meaningful relationships with leading healthcare professionals in the Transplant field

• Be part of bringing innovative therapies to patients with serious transplant-related conditions

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what's never-been-done-before. You'll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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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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