Strategic Context
- Sanofi is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Now, with its Take the Lead Strategy the objective is to make a greater impact on patients, healthcare systems, and society at large scale. This means (i) pioneering an innovative pipeline and executing transformative launches at scale to bring life-changing new medicines and vaccines to more people, more quickly (ii) modernizing and deploying resources with agility (iii) building a sustainable business that tackles the most urgent healthcare, environmental, and societal challenges of our time
- Sanofi India is implementing an ambitious transformation plan aligned with our Take the Lead Strategy and Values, with 3 main objectives (i) achieve our target growth for the Diabetes portfolio in Public and Private market (ii) Foster empowerment and autonomy at customer level to create a customer centricity approach (iii) Implement contemporary ways of working for better efficiency
Key Dimensions
- As an Area Commercial Lead, the role entails developing and coordinating customer engagement plans aligned with brand strategies across the assigned area. The position is responsible for driving data-driven decision making and facilitating cross-functional collaboration to optimize customer experience and business outcomes.
Role & Responsibilities
- The Area Commercial Lead, is responsible for bridging the strategy and field execution, ensuring consistent customer experience across all touchpoints while driving data-driven decision making within the organization. his role is pivotal in orchestrating omnichannel customer engagement and facilitating cross-functional collaboration to deliver superior customer value.
- Strategic Planning & Execution:
- Identify and develop area customer engagement plans in collaboration with Zonal Commercial leads
- Drive and coordinate customer engagement initiatives by translating global/brand strategies into field tactics
- Support strategic planning and ensure alignment between brand objectives and field execution
- Area campaign planning with proper budget control
- Cross-functional Collaboration & Liaison:
- Liaise with Zonal Commercial leads (ZCL) on market development & brand engagement activities aligned with Customer Engagement Manager (CEM) and Customer experience planner (CEP)
- Work in close coordination with Key Account Managers (KAMs) to ensure smooth transition of every account to the calling list of field teams for meaningful engagement
- Bridge between HQ and commercial team based on analysis of campaign feedback, insight, execution KPIs and objective evaluation
- Facilitate collaboration
- Data-Driven Decision Support:
- Support and facilitate data-driven decision-making for field teams by providing regular performance data and analytics
- Alert FFs on SFKPIs of each center & monitor outcome efficiencies of efforts
- Analyze campaign feedback, insights, and execution KPIs to continuously improve engagement strategies
- Omnichannel Orchestration:
- Play the bridge role between HQ omnichannel customer strategy and field force execution
- Recognize customer channel preferences and orchestrate seamless experiences
- Partner with Commercial Lead on omnichannel and KOL engagement planning and feedback
- Event & Speaker Program Management:
- Log speaker engagement programs & liaise with Medical Operations
- Coordinate slides & documents required for sessions
- Implement regional events, speaker programs, and strategic initiatives
- Agile Ways of Working:
- Foster collaboration and agile work seeking to become a self-organized team
- Promote continuous improvement and adaptation
- Talent management
Build a strong diverse team that is future ready , agile & learning
About You
- Experience: 10+ years in Pharma sales with prior experience in a people management role is preffered
- Skills Required: Sales Management, People Management , Strategic and innovative thinking, Conceptualizing, Achievement Orientation, Teamwork & Collaboration, Influencing & execution and Monitoring & evaluation, Learning Agility, Change Management / Leading Transformation
- Education: Graduate degree in Science/ Pharmacy, master’s degree in business administration with Marketing Specialization(preferable).
- Regional Experience - Prior experience/understating of respective regions/markets is preferred. Multiple market exposure will be an added advantage.
- Prior experience in diabetes & diverse insulin segments is preferred
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