Job title: Pricing & Patient Affordability Manager
- Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates or Saudi Arabia
About the job
As Pricing & Patient Affordability Specialist within our Market Access team, you'll analyze the local pricing environment at country level and ensure prices are aligned with global pricing strategy while developing patient support programs that remove financial barriers to medication access across the Greater Gulf MCO. Ready to get started?
Ready to push the limits of what's possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.
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
- Analyze the local pricing environment at country level and ensure prices are aligned with global pricing strategy to achieve optimal and targeted prices for all products commercialized by Sanofi across Greater Gulf MCO markets
- Play an active part within brand teams to achieve brand objectives in relation to international reference pricing, competitive pricing and reimbursement, communicating global pricing strategies within the MCO
- Evaluate price requests (business cases), assess tender and discount price requests, process price certificates, conduct price risk assessments, and analyze financial impact
- Support MCO team with price negotiation with governmental stakeholders by providing relevant information and documentation, manage pricing related procedures (SOPs)
- Design, implement, and manage patient affordability programs to remove financial barriers to medication access, owning program strategy, budget management, and vendor oversight
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Commercial, Market Access, Medical, Legal, Compliance, and Finance teams to ensure regulatory compliance and optimize program performance
- Maintain and update price-related databases for each market, including governmental price regulations, competitor prices, and list prices of existing products
- Collect and update price data tariff on global pricing system, ensuring accuracy and timeliness of all pricing information
- Analyze program performance, optimize costs, and deliver exceptional patient experiences while measuring success through improved patient access rates, program ROI, and cost efficiency
- Generate clear, concise, and business-relevant reports that "tell the story" and provide informed interpretations and recommendations beyond the numbers
About you
- Experience: 2-5 years of experience in Pricing, Market Access, and Commercial Functions in the pharmaceutical industry or consultancy. Previous experience in pricing, Market Access, commercial, or both in the pharmaceutical or consultancy industry required. Experience with patient assistance program design and implementation is preferred.
- Soft and technical skills: Expert in Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint; strong understanding of healthcare insurance, reimbursement, and pricing principles; knowledge of pharmaceutical industry regulations and compliance requirements; ability to multitask with several initiatives under pressure; quality and timely delivery of reports; insights gained from data analysis; ability to "go beyond the numbers" and provide informed interpretations and recommendations; strong analytical and problem-solving skills; excellent communication and presentation abilities
- Education: University degree required from technical departments such as pharmacy, science, economics, or finance. A background in health economics is a plus.
- Languages: Fluency in English is required. Arabic is a plus.
Why choose us?
- Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet
- Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably
- Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed
- Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges into real-world solutions
- Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition
- Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what's next
- Work directly on pricing strategies and patient access programs that have immediate, measurable impact on patient lives across the Gulf region
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.
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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