Associate Director, Health Informatics Technology (HIT)

Sanofi; United States; Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing benefits

Parental leave

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

A leading biopharmaceutical company seeks an Associate Director of Health Informatics Technology to drive health informatics initiatives. This role requires strong IT acumen and a minimum of 10 years in health information technology. The successful candidate will align HIT capabilities with health systems, develop market opportunities, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. This position offers a dynamic environment to improve operations and enhance patient care delivery with innovative technology solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in health information technology, marketing, or commercial field.
• Strong understand of clinical workflows and ability to optimize them.

Responsibilities

• Align Sanofi’s HIT capabilities with health system HIT capabilities.
• Identify and develop market shaping opportunities.
• Establish relationships with HIT decision makers within health systems.
• Capture actionable insights about health systems and other organized customers and local market dynamics.
• Organize and execute workflow assessments to identify opportunities for customers to improve their respiratory workflow for before, during, and after the patient visit.
• Help understand current healthcare data and how it could be utilized to help improve operations.
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional team to uncover opportunities, and/or uncover underlying or unexpressed clinical/customer technology needs.
• Play an active role in executive briefings and business roles with the Account Managers
• Contribute to the business plans to include opportunity development, strategic account targeting and planning, and developing competitive strategies to successfully meet sales goals.
• Ensures key stakeholders; marketing, IT, medical affairs, market access, and operations, are fully briefed and aligned on relevant business opportunities.
• Provide insights to marketing to help them develop new resources and tools for use in-market.
• Assist marketing in monitoring external technical and business environment.
• Provide educational support to the Account Team regarding existing HIT capabilities and emerging trends.
• Act as a technical expert to the broader Account Management and Respiratory Business Unit.

Skills

Strong IT acumen

Leadership

Project management

Change management strategies

MBA or related degree

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, healthcare or related field

MBA or other relevant advanced degree

Tools

Epic certification

Health Information Technology platforms

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Associate Director Health Informatics Technology (HIT)

Location: Cambridge, MA / Remote, US

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.

The Health Information Technology (HIT) Associate Director helps drive health information technology initiatives with health systems and other organized customers (PBGs, W/Ds, GPOs, etc.) in improving COPD care delivery. The HIT Associate Director will work closely with the Strategic Solutions Team, Account Managers, and Medical Value and Outcomes (MVO) team in supporting health system C/D suite stakeholders in identifying opportunities to optimize their clinical workflows by utilizing existing technology investments (ex. EHR, PHM, CRM, Digital Solutions). They will also engage to help navigate systems gather, interpret, and organize data into actionable insights that health systems and other organized customers (PBGs, W/Ds, GPOs, etc.) can use to improve operations.

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.

External

Main Responsibilities:

• Align Sanofi’s HIT capabilities with health system HIT capabilities.
• Identify and develop HIT market shaping opportunities between Sanofi and relevant HIT vendors, influencers, policy makers, customers, or multiple stakeholders within key market ecosystems.
• Establish relationships with HIT decision makers within health systems and other large organized customers to facilitate access to Sanofi’s respiratory portfolio.
• Capture actionable insights about health systems and other organized customers and local market dynamics.
• Organize and execute workflow assessments to identify opportunities for customers to improve their respiratory workflow for before, during, and after the patient visit.
• Help understand current healthcare data and how it could be utilized to help improve operations.

Internal

• Work collaboratively with cross-functional team to uncover opportunities, and/or uncover underlying or unexpressed clinical/customer technology needs.
• Play an active role in executive briefings and business roles with the Account Managers
• Contribute to the business plans to include opportunity development, strategic account targeting and planning, and developing competitive strategies to successfully meet sales goals.
• Ensures key stakeholders; marketing, IT, medical affairs, market access, and operations, are fully briefed and aligned on relevant business opportunities.
• Provide insights to marketing to help them develop new resources and tools for use in-market.
• Assist marketing in monitoring external technical and business environment.
• Provide educational support to the Account Team regarding existing HIT capabilities and emerging trends.
• Act as a technical expert to the broader Account Management and Respiratory Business Unit.

About You

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, healthcare or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in health information technology, marketing, or commercial field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong IT acumen & knowledge of HIT platforms and applications.
• Understands clinical workflows, how to evaluate them, and the ability to recommend ways to optimize them utilizing technology.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of how HIT is currently leveraged in US market and within health systems.
• Experience working for an HIT Vendor, Digital Health Vendor, or within IT at a health system.
• Epic certified.
• Solid project management skills.
• Leader in an ever-evolving environment, with demonstrated use of change management strategies/tactics to influence new ways of thinking and working.
• Manages conflict with composure and demonstrates managerial courage.
• MBA or other relevant advanced degree.

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.