Job Title: Population Health Strategy Lead – Greater Gulf
About the job
As Population Health Strategy Lead – Greater Gulf within our General Medicines team, you'll pioneer the screening and monitoring strategy for a first-in-class therapy in Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes — shaping how people at risk are identified, supported, and connected to care across the GCC. Ready to get started?
Join the team transforming how healthcare is delivered for chronic and specialty conditions worldwide. In General Medicines, you'll help drive meaningful outcomes in diabetes, transplant, and immunology — with the scale and urgency patients deserve. In this role, you'll lead a high-visibility mission at the intersection of science, digital health, and patient access — building the infrastructure and partnerships that bring Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes screening to life across the Greater Gulf region.
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
- Adapt and lead the global people-at-risk screening, monitoring, and infrastructure strategy at local level — coordinating all related activities and stakeholders across the GCC to improve identification of people at risk and patients.
- Identify and develop new screening and monitoring channels — including digital health solutions — and advocate for screening reimbursement and funding initiatives in collaboration with Medical, Public Affairs, and Market Access teams.
- Map the screening and monitoring ecosystem (diagnostic labs, centers of excellence, electronic medical record platforms, telemedicine, and registries) and define optimal referral pathways for seamless patient journeys.
- Build and manage cross-functional partnerships with diagnostic companies, data providers, and digital health platforms to improve testing accessibility, standardization, and patient profiling.
- Collaborate with Patient Experience and field teams to implement end-to-end journeys — from person-at-risk identification through to treatment readiness.
- Adapt global messaging to create compelling, locally relevant screening narratives tailored to healthcare providers, patients, and families across the GCC.
- Identify operational barriers along the patient pathway, manage risks in collaboration with Ethics, Legal, and Compliance teams, and share best practices with country and global teams.
About you
- Experience: 10 years in pharmaceutical and/or diagnostic commercial roles, with experience in marketing to healthcare providers, patient activation, and product launches in specialty, rare disease, or Type 1 Diabetes; GCC experience is a plus.
- Soft skills: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; highly collaborative with the ability to work across global and cross-functional teams; strong networking and negotiation capabilities; self-driven, results-oriented, and able to prioritize multiple projects with agility and creativity.
- Technical skills: Proven experience launching products requiring screening or monitoring programs; ability to build partnerships with screening infrastructures and develop data-driven solutions; deep understanding of care pathway operations; strong commercial, financial, and strategic thinking acumen; solution-oriented mindset with a focus on customer needs.
- Education: University degree in health sciences; advanced degrees are a plus.
- Languages: Fluent in English and Arabic, with strong communication and presentation skills in both.
Why choose us?
- Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes — and make a real impact at scale, with medicines that reach over 100 million people each year.
- Turn bold ideas into breakthrough launches, with multiple new therapies planned through 2030 and beyond.
- Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that's rethinking how we work and engage with the world.
- Work in a place that combines global scale with local expertise, backed by a strong culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
- Play a pioneering role in shaping population health strategy for a first-in-class therapy in Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes — a space where your work can genuinely change how a disease is detected and managed.
- Lead a high-visibility, cross-functional mission across the GCC, working at the intersection of science, digital health, and patient access.
- Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice.
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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