Area Commercial Lead

(0641) Sanofi India Limited; Mumbai; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 3,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanofi is seeking an Area Commercial Lead in Hyderabad to translate brand strategy into impactful customer engagement initiatives for chronic conditions. You will drive field programs, omnichannel experiences, and data-driven decisions across the General Medicines portfolio.

You will partner with field teams and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure execution excellence, budget management, and talent development for a high-performing team.

Qualifications

• Experience in commercial excellence and related pharmaceutical roles.
• Ability to translate strategy into execution with measurable outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience using data and analytics to drive commercial decisions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute customer engagement plans aligned with brand strategy and priorities.
• Translate commercial strategies into field initiatives to enhance customer experience and performance.
• Collaborate with field teams and cross-functional stakeholders for seamless execution.
• Use metrics and insights to support data-driven decisions and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate omnichannel engagement across multiple touchpoints.

Skills

Commercial excellence

Product management

Customer engagement planning

Sales leadership

Data analytics

Omnichannel engagement

Stakeholder management

Project management

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Business, or related field

Job description

Job Title: Area Commercial Lead Location: Hyderabad

About the Job

As an Area Commercial Lead within our General Medicines team, you'll play a key role in translating brand strategy into impactful customer engagement initiatives, helping drive meaningful outcomes for patients living with diabetes and other chronic conditions. Ready to get started? Join the team transforming 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

• Develop and execute customer engagement plans aligned with brand strategy and business priorities across the assigned area.
• Translate commercial and marketing strategies into actionable field initiatives that enhance customer experience and business performance.
• Partner closely with field teams and cross-functional stakeholders to drive seamless execution and customer-centric outcomes.
• Leverage performance metrics, customer insights, and campaign analytics to support data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
• Coordinate omnichannel engagement activities, ensuring consistent customer experiences across multiple touchpoints.
• Support regional events, speaker programs, and strategic engagement initiatives while ensuring effective budget management.
• Foster agile ways of working, collaboration, and talent development to build a high-performing and future-ready team.

About You

• Experience in commercial excellence, product management, customer engagement planning, sales leadership, or related pharmaceutical commercial roles.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into execution and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience using data and analytics to drive commercial decisions and improve performance.
• Understanding of omnichannel customer engagement and customer-centric commercial models.
• Strong communication, influencing, and project management capabilities.
• Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Pharmacy, Business, or a related field.

Why Choose Us?

Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions like Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, transplant, and cardiovascular disease. Drive meaningful impact at scale, helping improve outcomes for millions of patients worldwide. Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered organization that's transforming how healthcare teams engage with customers. Grow your career through cross-functional exposure, development opportunities, and internal mobility across Sanofi. Play a pivotal role bridging strategy and execution, with significant visibility across commercial and leadership teams. Gain exposure to innovative customer engagement models, omnichannel capabilities, and data-driven commercial excellence. Collaborate with diverse teams committed to delivering better experiences for healthcare professionals and patients. 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 and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com! We are an R&D driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and creating compelling growth. Our team is guided by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We want to build a healthier, more resilient world, and turn the impossible into the possible by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines for millions of people around the world. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi Start a career that makes a difference. Reinvention is in our DNA. It’s what drove our evolution from a small French enterprise to one of the world’s leading biopharma companies. Whether it’s using AI to shorten drug-discovery times or building trust in healthcare, you could be helping our teams make life better for patients, partners, and communities. This is where you grow your career. We open the door for you to explore new opportunities, push your limits, and connect with people who are driven by a shared purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.