Director, HEVA (HEOR) Business Partner

Sanofi (US)
Cambridge, MA
Job Title: Director, HEVA (HEOR) Business Partner

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

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.

Sanofi Specialty Care has pioneered the development and delivery of transformative therapies for patients affected by debilitating diseases for over 30 years. We accomplish our goals through world-class research, collaboration with the global patient community, and with the compassion and commitment of our employees. Sanofi Specialty Care’s portfolio of transformative therapies, which are marketed in countries around the world, represent ground-breaking and life-saving advances in medicine. Sanofi Specialty Care employees benefit from the reach and resources of one of the world's largest pharmaceutical companies with a shared commitment to improving the lives of patients.

Sanofi’s Rare franchise has a diverse and fast-growing portfolio. This includes late-stage launching candidates as well as several promising compounds in the pipeline. HEVA’s mission is to conduct, communicate, and translate evidence to demonstrate the value of Sanofi’s products and support optimal access and treatment outcomes for patients. The Rare HEVA team is responsible for designing and fulfilling evidence generation plans that meet the strategic goals of Rare Blood disorders portfolio.

The HEOR/HEVA business partner in this position will support Rare Disease portfolio to plan and generate robust evidence to maximize the value propositions from both a global and US perspectives working within the market access team.

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:

This role will be responsible for development of Health Economic and Outcomes Research (HEOR) strategy and execution of relevant tactics to support the value proposition of Rare Disease products. The incumbent will interface with market access, Clinical, Medical Affairs, and commercial teams including Global and US. The role is accountable for the planning, design, implementation, and completion of innovative evidence-based research programs that are consistent with program/product strategies. The research programs will provide appropriate evidence and/or tools to be used for internal decision making and for external audiences at product launch and over product life cycle.
  • This role will be responsible for the design and execution of Health Economic and Outcomes Research (HEOR) research in the forms of economic modeling, database analysis, observational research, systematic literature review, evidence synthesis, value dossier development and other types of HEOR research, and provide trial design recommendations.
  • This role will set the HEOR evidence generation priorities and plan for the assigned Rare Disease indications in life cycle or under development and incorporate them into broader Sanofi planning documents such as the integrated evidence generation plan (IEGP).
  • This role will operate as part of a multi-functional global Brand team and development team that is responsible for designing clinical research programs to meet the evidentiary standards of regulators, health technology assessment (HTA) organizations, reimbursement authorities, third-party payers and other organizations that review evidence relevant to Sanofi medicines.
  • This role will develop collaborative research relationships, e.g Payers, that inform value to decision makers. This role will leverage payer interactions to identify strategies that will improve the impact of research and build advocates for data
  • This role will serve as a subject matter expert to provide input in various commercial, medical, market access teams, and strategy development
  • This role is expected to demonstrate effective communication, organizational and interpersonal skills to be able to work effectively as part of a multidisciplinary team. The incumbent is expected to work independently, but in concert with the direction provided by their management, in accordance with defined functional policies and precedents, budgetary guidelines, company values, ethics and applicable law.

Key Stakeholders:

Internal:
  • Market Access & Pricing, Global, US and x-US affiliates
  • Cross functional Brand team
  • Medical Affairs - GBUs, affiliates, HEVA Analytics, Clinical Outcomes Generation
  • Commercial team
  • R&D - Global project teams and Clinical Affairs, Clinical Outcomes Assessment (COA), Health Value Translation (HVT) and Regulatory Affairs
  • Public Affairs, Communications
  • Compliance and Legal

External:
  • Payers/Reimbursement Authorities
  • Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs)
  • Health Technology Assessment (HTAs) and other review bodies

Key Performance Indicators
  • Timely design and execution of the HEVA plan
  • Demonstrated contributions to product success
  • Development and execution of strategies that address data gaps and customer needs
  • Expertise recognized within the function
  • Develops and maintains peer relationships to establish HEVA as an expert in HEOR.
  • Anticipates communication needs to cross-functional audiences and pre-empts issues with timely and effective action
  • Established track record of scientific and/or methods publications in peer-reviewed journals
  • Compliance with all relevant internal SOPs and external laws and regulations.

About You

  • Advanced degree (PhD, MD, MS, MPH, or PharmD) in a scientific discipline
  • Minimum of 5 years of combined experience in health economics, outcomes research, or a related field
  • Demonstrated experience in applying various HEOR methods to specific research projects and have supported global launches.
  • Proficiency in principles of evidence-based medicine and clinical research methodology, economic modeling, and COAs.
  • Understands, creates, and applies relevant methods (e.g., observational data, post hoc analysis of clinical trials, meta-analysis, indirect comparison, etc..) to demonstrate product value potential
  • Provided recommendations to clinical development programs aimed at ensuring differentiation for payer value demonstration
  • Has US product launch experience, understand US payer evidence requirements and value demonstration in a competitive market
  • Has experience in translating Target Value Propositions and access strategies into evidence hypotheses, requirements and generation plans addressing payer/provider/health system unmet needs
  • Publication in peer-reviewed journals
  • Knowledge of global HTA processes and guidelines, experience with HTA submissions preferred
  • Knowledge of US payers and guidelines, experience with US submissions preferred
  • Strong ability to partner with colleagues from other (i.e. non-HEOR) functional areas
  • Demonstrated understanding disease physiopathology, drug mechanism of action, clinical development principles, epidemiology, biostatistics, statistical programming COA development, systemic literature reviews, and network meta-analyses

Skills & Competencies:

  • English fluent, both written and oral
  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, including presentation skills. Significant experience making presentations to senior management is strongly desired
  • Understanding of the legal and regulatory environment of the pharmaceutical industry, demonstrated integrity on work-related compliance considerations and solid ethics
  • Entrepreneurial and team spirit and ability to develop creative solutions to complex problems

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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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
Posted 2026-01-12

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