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Job Title: Senior Director Transactions, Immunology Business Development and Licensing

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

The Senior Director Transactions, Immunology Business Development and Licensing role, within the Global Business Development (BD) department drives external growth initiatives aligned with Sanofi’s strategic priorities, particularly in reshaping the portfolio and sustaining innovation in R&D. The BD team focuses on searching, evaluating, structuring, negotiating, and closing strategic alliances with external companies. Within this, the Immunology BD Team has played a key role in building a leading pipeline in Immunology & Inflammation and continues to seek external growth opportunities. Reporting to the Head of Immunology BD, this role will oversee deal structuring and execution, business case development, strategic valuation analysis, and stakeholder management. Key objectives include securing external partnerships to enhance Sanofi’s pipeline and portfolio, leading negotiations, and supporting acquisitions and divestitures to drive Global Business Unit (GBU) and company growth.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities:

• Support the Immunology BD function to prioritize and close key deals of strategic and / or financial significance for Sanofi.

• Lead and direct deal structuring, term sheet and contract development, terms and deal negotiation, and deal execution.

• Lead and direct teams in business case development, financial modeling, and accounting and valuation analyses incorporating probability, time, cost, budget impacts, and returns to allow for optimal strategic and investment decision making.

• Contribute to team and Therapeutic Area efforts to screen, evaluate, and prioritize external opportunities for collaborations, partnerships, in-licensing, etc.

• Lead executed deal handover, including post-mortem analysis and formal meeting, to transition each deal to business owners, sponsor and alliance management as needed.

• Establish relationships and trust while collaborating across all levels of the organization

• Present opportunities and make recommendations to executive management.

• Develop and maintain relationships with a wide array of industry participants including management teams of biotech companies, venture capitalists, academic institutions, and investigators, and investment bankers.

• Represent company at industry, investor, and partnering conferences.

About You:

• A BA/BS degree required, with a strong preference for an MBA, MD, or PhD in a biomedical field.

• Extensive experience in biotech/pharma, with a successful track record in negotiating and executing partnership, licensing, and acquisition deals.

• Deep industry knowledge spanning drug discovery, development, and commercialization, with experience implementing partnerships.

• Proven negotiation skills to effectively engage with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.

• Strategic thinker and problem solver, with a creative approach to deal structuring, execution, and financial modeling.

• Excel in project management, balancing multiple priorities while driving high-performance results

• Globally minded, able to travel 20-30% and work across international markets.

The position is based in the Cambridge, MA with availability to travel as required for interaction with external groups and companies, internal teams and stakeholders.

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

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse 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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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.

Watch our ALL IN video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) !

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Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally inclusive and diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; natural or protective hairstyles; 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.

Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo)

As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live.

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