Senior Director, HCP Marketing — Flu portfolio (Fluzone HD, Fluzone SD, Flublok)
Description
Job title: Senior Director, HCP Marketing — Flu portfolio (Fluzone HD, Fluzone SD, Flublok)
- Location: Morristown, NJ
About the role
Lead U.S. HCP marketing for Sanofi flu vaccines portfolio Fluzone, Fluzone High-Dose, Flublok) positioning each product within the broader U.S. vaccines portfolio. This is not a single-product role: you will navigate a complex, competitive and evolving market, where portfolio positioning drives revenue. You will own sales-force engagement, end-to-end NPP and omnichannel performance, precision-targeted customer engagement, and health-system/account activation translating strategy into adoption, standardization, and sustained utilization. You will manage a team of marketers, ranging from Associate Director to Product Manager, orchestrate agencies/third parties, and serve as a central leader across workstreams. Reports to the U.S. Head of Flu franchise.
Join the team protecting half a billion lives every year with next-gen science, mRNA innovation, and AI driven breakthroughs. In Vaccines, you’ll help advance prevention on a global scale - and shape the future of immunization.
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
- Sales force execution: Primary liaison to four distinct sales teams, set field engagement model, content sequencing, field/NPP orchestration, and KPIs; deliver field‑ready tools and trainings; drive account-level activation across two distinct moments, pre-book execution and in-season activation, each with its own call to action and tactics (e.g., EHR/health-maintenance prompts during flu season)
- Own NPP & omnichannel: Lead media planning, channel mix, creative, measurement, optimization, and precision engagement strategies; build full‑funnel KPIs; run weekly performance governance; reallocate spend dynamically by region/segment; deploy precision marketing approaches to maximize reach and engagement across customer segments beyond available field capacity.
- Brand & content leadership: Convert insights (ATU, VCR drop-off, EHR signals, field intel) into clear value propositions, personalized customer journeys, and disciplined messaging across pediatric and adult practices/health systems. Lead market research initiatives, informed by but separate from these insights
- Agency/partner leadership: Manage a multi-agency ecosystem (no single agency of record) spanning creative, media, martech, analytics and data partners; direct each with tight briefs/SOWs/SLAs and understand how they intersect with strategy and tactics across all four sales teams. Ensure on-time, on-budget delivery and measurable ROI.
- Cross‑functional & global: Align Sales, Market Access, Medical/HEOR, Analytics, Supply, Training, Communications, Legal, Regulatory and Compliance; serve as U.S. point person with Global Marketing; integrate latest evidence into compliant storytelling.
- People leadership: Lead and develop a high-performing team with a range of levels and skill sets; raise talent density; set clear OKRs; foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, and P&L ownership.
- Performance & governance: Own targets, dashboards, and leadership presentations and readouts; manage advertising and promotion /NPP budgets; ensure RC/MLR readiness and full compliance.
- Accountable for meeting or exceeding brand and financial targets by fiscal and seasonal year-end, using analytics to identify leakage and deploying rapid corrective HCP interventions; partner with Sales/Medical/Value for maternal defense and infant immunization standardization.
- Dynamic OPEX allocation - geo‑segmented prioritization; shift to lower‑funnel levers (EHR, workflow, point of care); tie spend to measurable behavior change.
- Transform omnichannel - embed journeys, trigger personalized follow-ups, and optimize ecommerce platform VaccineShop; integrate personal + non-personal promotion as one orchestrated system.
- Strengthen franchise ownership & talent - clear governance; succession planning; capability building.
About the Job
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA/advanced degree preferred.
- 10+ years pharma/biopharma commercial experience with 8+ years in brand/HCP marketing; launch and/or seasonal brand experience preferred.
- Proven success in sales force engagement, precision marketing, and NPP/omnichannel with measurable outcomes, including positioning individual products within a portfolio against competitors to drive revenue.
- Data‑driven operator with strong cross‑functional influence and executive communication.
- Pediatrics/respiratory/IDN and global collaboration experience a plus.
- Travel: Up to 30%.
Why Choose Us
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- 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 at the forefront of AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and groundbreaking mRNA platforms that are redefining the future of immunology.
- Help protect half a billion people every year, contributing to one of the largest global vaccination efforts in healthcare.
Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.