**Job Title:** **Launch Excellence Lead** **Location:** **Reading, UK** **Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time** **About This Job** As Launch Lead within our Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes team, you'll lead the strategic launch of a groundbreaking, first-in-class therapy that delays the onset of Type 1 Diabetes - giving families precious time and hope while transforming preventive healthcare. This is your opportunity to shape the future of autoimmune disease management, work at the forefront of medical innovation, and make a meaningful difference in countless lives while fast-tracking your career in this high-visibility, transformative role. Ready to get started? Join the team to transform how healthcare is delivered for chronic and specialty conditions worldwide. In General Medicines, you’ll help drive meaningful outcomes in diabetes, transplant, and immunology - with the scale and urgency patients deserve. **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** + Lead the UK launch strategy for a first-in-class therapy in Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes, ensuring all activities are aligned with global frameworks and local market needs. + Collaborateacrossteams including Commercial, Market Access, Medical, and Public Affairs to deliver a cohesive and impactful launch plan. + Define and tracksuccessmeasures byestablishingkey milestones, timelines, and performance indicators tomonitorprogress before and after launch. + Manage the launch budget by overseeing resource allocation,monitoringexpenses, and providing regular financial updates to senior leadership. + Identifyand mitigate risks by proactively developing contingency plans to address challenges that could affect launch timelines or deliverables. + Drive effective governance and communication by coordinating leadership meetings, enabling swift decision-making, and keeping global and local stakeholders informed of progress. + Support team development by helping onboard new roles,identifyingskill gaps, and fostering ways of working that promote agility and collaboration. **About You** **Experience:** + Launchexpertise in specialty pharmaceuticals, rare diseases, or diabetes, witha track recordof successfully bringing products to market + Strategic marketing background that includes developing therapeutic area strategies, positioning, and building awareness in new disease areas **Soft and Technical Skills:** + Collaborative leadership with the ability to influence and align diverse teams across functions and regions + Project management capabilities to coordinate complex launch activities, simplify processes, andmaintainmomentum + Communication excellence in presenting complex information clearly to various stakeholders, from senior leadership to cross-functional teams + Customer insight with experience in external stakeholder engagement and understanding market access dynamics + Problem-solving approach that can synthesize complex information and develop practical solutions **Education:** + Bachelor’s degreein business, life sciences, or a related field **Languages:** + Strong Englishproficiency in both written and verbal communication **Why Choose Us?** + Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like aT1D, Type 2 diabetes, transplant, and cardiovascular disease. + Drive meaningfulimpact atglobal scale: our medicines reach more than 100 million people each year. + Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered businessthat’srethinking how we work and engage with the world. + Turn bold ideas into breakthrough launches, with multiple new therapies planned through 2030 and beyond. + Stretch your career in a development playground, with opportunities across functions, regions, and the entire product lifecycle. + Work in a place that combines global scale with localexpertise, backed by a strong culture of collaboration and shared purpose. + Contribute to innovations that improve outcomes, relieve pressure on healthcare systems, and expand access worldwide. + Join a teamthat’snot just transforming treatment - but asking what’snext, andmaking it real. + Join a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core, with Employee Resource Groups and leadership programs that celebrate every voice. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, committed to offering interviews to candidates who request consideration under the Scheme and meet the minimum requirements for this role. If you have a disability and require adjustments for the interview process, please email us at diversity.recruitmentUKIE@sanofi.com. We are dedicated to ensuring an inclusive and supportive experience for all applicants. Visas for those who do not already have the right to work in the UK will be considered on a case by case basis according to business needs and resources. **Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.** Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together. At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law. **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, 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) ! Global Terms & Conditions and Data Privacy Statement (https://www.sanofi.com/en/careers/global-terms-and-conditions/) 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. All in for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Sanofi - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=2s)