Global Therapeutic Area Head, Respiratory

Job title : Global Therapeutic Area Head, Respiratory

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

You will be working at the heart of the Global Alliance Immunology Franchise where we take pride in our commitment to excellence and value our team culture. What drives us is the opportunity to make an impact with Immunology products that truly can transform the lives of people living with COPD, Severe Asthma, Atopic Dermatitis, Chronic Rhinosinusitis with Nasal Polyposis, Prurigo Nodularis, Chronic Spontaneous Urticaria, Bullous Pemphigoid, Eosinophilic Esophagitis and Allergic Fungal Rhinosinusitis.

As Global Therapeutic Area Head, Respiratory, you will report to the Global Head of Alliance Immunology and own the end-to-end global strategy for our multi-indication Respiratory portfolio across Severe Asthma and COPD. You will lead a high-performing, multi-disciplinary franchise team, as well as specialists across International Markets, Customer Engagement, Patient Marketing, and Market Development, serving as the internal champion and external face of the Respiratory franchise.

This role is an opportunity to transform the practice of medicine in Respiratory and cement Sanofi's position as an undisputed global leader in immunology.

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs.

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

Global Strategy & Execution Excellence

Develop and own the global brand strategy, positioning, and go-to-market plan for the Respiratory portfolio across Asthma and COPD, ensuring full alignment with Sanofi's vision, alliance commitments, and market opportunities

Co-create bold short-, mid-, and long-term strategic ambitions together with key markets, alliance partners, and external stakeholders, translating deep insights into a compelling and differentiated value proposition

Facilitate regular strategy reviews, alignment forums, and knowledge-sharing sessions with local markets to drive global-to-local coherence and accelerate in-market performance

Develop global campaigns, best practice playbooks, and modular content that empower local markets to execute with excellence and speed

Develop targeted, market-relevant initiatives to address and dismantle barriers to biologic uptake in COPD, ensuring Sanofi is positioned as the category-defining leader in this space

Drive a differentiation strategy across both Asthma and COPD that ensures a compelling, distinct, and leading value proposition

Irresistible Team & Culture Ambition

• •Attract, develop, and retain world-class talent and lead a high-performing cross-functional team
• •Act as a member of the Global Immunology Alliance Leadership Team, demonstrating enterprise leadership through best practice sharing, mentoring, and active contribution to franchise-level initiatives
• •Create and articulate an inspiring vision for the organization that engages teams across functions, geographies, and levels — and brings them along on the journey

Commercial Leadership & P&L

Own full P&L accountability for the global Respiratory franchise, leading strategic and financial planning to maximize portfolio value across both indications

Own, develop, and regularly update the global revenue forecast across markets, ensuring projections are grounded in rigorous analysis and aligned with strategic priorities

Own and manage the global commercial operating budget, ensuring ROI-driven investment allocation and disciplined resource management

Develop and track KPIs to measure the impact of global and local/regional commercial activities, holding the franchise accountable to ambitious performance standards

Pipeline & Life Cycle Management

Collaborate closely with R&D, Medical Affairs, Clinical Program Management, and alliance partners to develop a life cycle strategy aligned with the Respiratory franchise vision and long-term leadership ambition

Represent the global commercial perspective in Life Cycle Management governance and R&D clinical development programs, ensuring commercial viability and patient relevance are embedded in development decisions

Lead commercial strategy development, conduct commercial assessments, and support the development of robust business cases for pipeline and life cycle opportunities

Serve as a key voice in Alliance governance and EXCOM-level discussions, representing the franchise's commercial interests with clarity, credibility, and strategic conviction

About You

Experience

15+ years of progressive experience in biopharmaceutical commercialization, with a track record of delivering exceptional results in complex, matrixed, global environments

Demonstrated Marketing leadership experience at Global and Local level (preferably with US commercial experience), including ability to build marketing strategies, experience in launch, brand planning, omnichannel and Forecast/ Budget/ Resource allocation

Mastery of cross functional collaboration with R&D, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Public Affairs with a proven biologics launch experience and demonstrated ability to collaboratively drive market shaping activities and evidence generation

External stakeholder engagement: fluent in advancing Customers & Patient engagement, at a Country and Global level

Experience in Respiratory would be a strong differentiator

Alliance management experience and exposure to executive committee (EXCOM) governance is a significant advantage

Demonstrated experience in leading and inspiring teams as well as in attracting, developing and retaining top talents

Strong P&L management experience, including global revenue forecasting, budget ownership, and ROI-driven investment decision-making

Leadership skills

Strategic thinking: ability to disrupt status quo with innovation while remaining pragmatic and focused on priorities. When under pressure, ability to bring others along to explain how strategic ideas fit into the larger context, and approach challenges thoroughly with a broad view, considering different potential outcomes. Be organizationally astute and know how to manage politics with integrity.

Growth Accelerator: A high level of comfort taking calculated risks, pushing limits, and stimulating new opportunities — both for the franchise and for the broader enterprise. Driven to transform the industry, not just compete within it.

People Leadership: ability to lead through influence, inspire teams, engage and leverage everyone’s strengths while being highly self-aware. Set high standards and expectations, communicates proactively, collaborative and approachable and ability to provide meaningful feedback, coaching and support.

Relationships and Influence: Culturally savvy and adaptable, with the ability to operate effectively across diverse cultural environments. Effective stakeholder management, politically astute and role models teamwork and collaboration

Result orientation: driven to develop and execute optimal strategy meeting corporate objectives, while creating pragmatic solutions. Comfortable with ambiguity and ability to adapt with agility, take calculated risks and anticipate potential issues.

Education

Bachelor's degree required, preferably in life sciences, marketing or business

MBA or other advanced degree strongly preferred

Languages

Fluent in English

Why Choose Us

Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused te