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# Global Lead, Health Ecosystem & Innovation

- **Company:** Sanofi
- **Location:** Morristown, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $206,250.0 - $297,917.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, EHealth, Data Management
- **Published:** July 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.nexxt.com/job.asp?id=3322534989&tx=FK906PFK&pt=1&aff=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54&utm_source=Job%20Feed&utm_medium=textkernel&utm_campaign=DE&utm_term=0B19D771-A501-4A5E-8338-2A822B784D54

## About the Role

* 10+ years of experience in Medical Affairs, Business Development, Digital Health, or Healthcare Innovation with a focus on external partnerships and ecosystem development within pharmaceutical, healthcare, or health technology sectors.
 * Advanced scientific degree (MD, PhD, PharmD, or Master's in life sciences or related field) preferred; additional qualifications in Business, Health Innovation, or Digital Health are a strong plus.
 * Demonstrated track record of building and managing external innovation partnerships with start-ups, academic institutions, or DTx companies in a pharmaceutical context.
 * Experience with patient-finding platforms, real-world evidence partnerships, or digital therapeutics ecosystem development.
 * Familiarity with AI applications, digital health platforms, and DTx regulatory and commercial models strongly preferred.
 * Strong external network in digital health, life science venture, or health-tech innovation communities.

Leadership & Skills:

 * Strategic ecosystem builder with a proven network in the digital health, start-up, and academic innovation communities relevant to biopharma.
 * Experienced in brokering and managing complex external partnerships, including opportunity evaluation, use case design, and performance governance.
 * Deep understanding of Digital Therapeutics, patient-centric innovation, and real-world evidence strategies in pharmaceutical development and medical affairs.
 * Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify high-potential external opportunities and translate them into structured, actionable innovation partnerships with clear business cases.
 * Ability to engage credibly with start-up founders, academic researchers, innovation accelerator leaders, and internal senior stakeholders with equal effectiveness., 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.

## Description

Health Ecosystem Strategy & External Innovation:

 * Define and own the Health Ecosystem & Innovation roadmap, bringing "outside-in" innovation from start-ups, academia, digital health, and patient communities into Sanofi's medical innovation pipeline.
 * Build and manage a strategic external innovation ecosystem encompassing start-up partnerships, academic collaborations, Digital Therapeutics (DTx) alliances, and patient-centric data platforms.
 * Lead the Patient centric strategy, building capabilities that improve Sanofi's ability to identify, understand, and engage patient communities in support of medical and evidence-generation objectives.
 * Identify, evaluate, and broker partnerships with digital health start-ups and DTx companies whose capabilities complement or enhance Sanofi's medical portfolio and patient engagement strategy.
 * Build and maintain a dynamic map of the external health innovation landscape, including competitive intelligence across digital health, AI-powered medical tools, and DTx.
 * Represent Sanofi at external innovation forums, accelerators, and academic conferences, serving as the company's ambassador to the health innovation ecosystem.

Innovation Incubation & use case Management:

 * Function as the primary incubator for external medical innovation partnerships - manage the full pipeline from opportunity scouting through due diligence,KPI definition, and handoff to GBU operational teams.
 * Design and manage structured test and learn use case programs with external partners, establishing clear success criteria, governance frameworks, and escalation pathways.
 * Collaborate with the Global Head of Medical Innovation, GBU leadership, and Digital Partners to assess and prioritize external innovation opportunities based on medical value, technical feasibility, and strategic fit.
 * Present curated external innovation opportunities to the Medical Innovation Council, providing structured assessments of strategic fit, risk, and potential impact.
 * Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Procurement to ensure external partnerships are structured, governed, and executed in accordance with Sanofi's standards.
 * Ensure external partnerships are designed to deliver actionable use cases - not one-off engagements - with clear KPIs, milestones, and handoff criteria to the broader Medical Innovation team.

GBU & Cross-Functional Partnership:

 * Serve as the embedded health ecosystem partner to Medical GBUs, ensuring the external innovation pipeline reflects GBU-specific therapeutic area priorities and evidence-generation needs.
 * Collaborate with the Global Lead for Scientific Platforms to ensure external content and education innovations are integrated into platform strategies.
 * Collaborate with the Global Lead for Medical Intelligence to connect patient-level data innovations with intelligence and predictive analytics platforms.
 * Partner with R&D, Commercial, and Digital teams to identify cross-functional innovation opportunities that span medical, clinical, and commercial objectives.
 * Represent the Health Ecosystem function in the Medical Innovation Council, contributing to DAI governance on external partnership investments and approvals.
 * Serve as an internal ambassador for health ecosystem innovation, educating Medical Affairs colleagues on emerging external trends and partnership opportunities.

Governance & Compliance:

 * Ensure all external partnerships, DTx collaborations, and patient data initiatives comply with applicable healthcare regulations, data privacy standards and ethical research principles.
 * Develop governance frameworks for evaluating, onboarding, and managing external innovation partners within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.
 * Stay current on the evolving digital therapeutics regulatory landscape, patient data governance standards, and start-up partnership models in biopharma., * Ecosystem Intelligence: Maintains a current, actionable understanding of the digital health and health-tech innovation landscape relevant to Sanofi's therapeutic areas, identifying signals of strategic relevance before they become industry standard.
 * Partnership Architecture: Designs multi-stakeholder innovation partnerships that deliver measurable medical value while managing complexity, risk, and the cultural differences between pharma and start-up environments.
 * Patient-Centricity: Grounds external innovation strategy in genuine patient needs, ensuring innovations improve care journeys and patient-relevant outcomes across therapeutic areas.
 * GBU Orientation: Translates enterprise innovation goals into GBU-specific partnership strategies, ensuring external innovations meet real commercial and medical needs rather than innovation for its own sake.
 * Entrepreneurial Agility: Navigates ambiguity in early-stage partnership development, pivoting quickly while maintaining strategic focus and governance discipline.


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