Job title: Public Affairs Lead Pharma Turkey
- Location: Istanbul, Turkey
About the job
Key Dimensions:
- This role is crucial in Turkey Market environment considering strong portfolio and projected launch pipeline in Pharma Turkey.
- Public Affairs Lead Pharma Turkey will be responsible from all public affairs activities for Pharma portfolio in Turkey.
Main responsibilities:
- Drive the strategy-setting, engagement and activation of all external stakeholders who lead or influence the policies that determine Sanofi’s ability to successfully secure patient’s access to pharma products.
- Develop and manage good relations with stakeholders to support market access processes, reimbursement & pricing activities, and shape environment proactively in public policies.
- The role’s large spectrum extends from identification of gaps and needs in the pharma ecosystem, to the development of strategies, build-up of advocacy, generation of data to support elaboration of policies and innovative access models for Sanofi products.
- Support launches and ramping up access of patients to Pharma products in line with company strategy.
- Support health and economic data generation for policy shaping. Drive disease burden, economic impact and other projects that would allow robust decision making for policies development in the aim of increasing pharma product access.
- Engage with external stakeholders for serving the public health priorities.
- Strong collaboration with Business Units, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Commercial and Regulatory
- Lead & participate transversal cross-functional projects related to public affairs road map.
- Identify public health priorities, needs and gaps that are in line with Pharma products and ensuring development of strategies for addressing them and strengthening Sanofi’s position.
- Shape environment on policies related to health, investment, R&D and access.
- Provide policy support to new product launches and Regulatory and market access issues and difficulties.
- Screen the government’s health, R&D and investment policy programs and regulations; communicate Sanofi impact internally and identify action plans.
- Lead the necessary coordination within the Sanofi Group in order to ensure that Sanofi is represented effectively, and its priorities are overseen through the representatives of relevant industry associations and NGOs in which Sanofi Group companies are a member.
- Participate in working/expert groups of NGOs, industry associations, conferences and other events to communicate company position and issues.
- Ensure management of customer engagement projects in line with company strategy
- Identify strategies for enhancing patients’ journey and customers’ experience for Sanofi products, digital solutions and PPP’s.
- Ensure the needs for PPP, NGOs and cooperation partnership projects are defined, internal communication is managed, tracked and monitored.
- Support the public health agenda and economic development plans, identifying opportunities for partnership in Turkiye
- Position Sanofi as a strategic partner to health authorities through impactful and differentiated strategic project.
- Compliance: Respects corporate commitment and compliance guidelines.
About you
Critical skills & experiences:
- Proven record of public affairs and market access experience.
- Exposure to international environment with track record of performance in Public Affairs and Market Access,
- Experience with contributing to Global initiatives and local implementation,
- Understanding of the evolution of the public affairs landscape
- Turkish (native speaker) and English (fluent in business environment)
Soft Skills
- Glocal mindset: able to understand and contribute to the global framework combined with local execution
- Capacity to challenge the status quo to enhance efficiency with an entrepreneurial mindset respecting global approaches.
- Entrepreneurial and agile mindset, unconventional thinking, always looking for new ways to achieve business goals
- Empowerment & People leadership: create engaging environment, delegation, giving responsibility and lead trustfully, ability to coach, develop and manage feedback effectively.
- Communication, Stakeholder & Change Management Skills: effective communication skills to influence and move to action to very diverse stakeholders (global, peers, cross-functional teams and external stakeholders)
- Customer orientation: Motivate teams to connect with patients/customers to understand their needs and provide value-added solutions
- Role model of PTW behaviours
We do not stop there, Explore:
Hybrid Working Options (for Istanbul HQ and for eligible white collar positions at M&S site)
Comprehensive Medical Plan
Company Private Pension Plan
Flexible Benefits Program for YOU to design your benefits
Company car for eligible positions & attractive lunch voucher/cafeteria at M&S site
Birthday Leave to celebrate YOU
14-week Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan dedicated to Sanofians
Kindergarten Allowance for female employees
Employee Assistance Program
Access to various learning & development resources, career development opportunities
& MORE!
Pursue progress, discover extraordinary
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, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.
Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!
Pursue
progress, discover
extraordinaryBetter 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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!
