Commercial Excellence Manager - Vaccines

Location: Remote; ability to travel to the home office and key sales meetings is required.

Company

Sanofi is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company developing medicines and vaccines through immunology, mRNA innovation, and next-generation science.

What you will do

• Provide operational excellence and strategic support for product and portfolio sales strategy execution.
• Lead national and regional business planning and business review processes, holding matrix teams accountable for critical business priorities.
• Coordinate preparation for business updates, key meetings, and priority projects with regional sales directors and commercial excellence leadership.
• Partner with business operations, digital, marketing, and sales teams to improve insights, analytics, omnichannel execution, and ways of working.
• Develop and implement brand and marketing strategies, account initiatives, plans of action, and field-based tactics.
• Define KPIs, analyze call activity and regional performance trends, lead pull-through initiatives, and share best practices to improve sales force effectiveness.

Requirements

• BA/BS degree from an accredited school.
• Ability to influence without authority across a matrix team comprising sales, business operations, digital, and marketing.
• Experience leading or supporting multilevel operational plans or key projects.
• Understanding of sales and marketing strategy with the ability to provide practical support and solutions.
• Strategic and analytical skills, including translating complex datasets into action plans.
• Effective communication, change agility, and willingness to travel to the home office and key sales meetings.

Nice to have

• Business, life sciences, or public health background.
• 3+ years of successful field leadership experience with home office, operations, or commercial excellence responsibilities.
• Experience in both marketing and sales-related functions.
• Change management experience and the ability to influence new ways of thinking and working.
• Experience managing conflict with composure and demonstrating managerial courage.

Culture & Benefits

• Supportive, future-focused environment centered on science and healthcare innovation.
• Opportunities for promotion, lateral career moves, international mobility, and mentoring across four continents.
• Health and wellbeing benefits, including healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.
• Work with AI-driven research, smart manufacturing, and mRNA platforms in immunology.
• Contribute to a global vaccination effort protecting approximately half a billion people each year.