Associate Director, Rare Blood Disorders, Patient Services

Associate Director, Rare Blood Disorders, Patient Services

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 Associate Director, Sutimlimab Patient Solutions will report into the Director of Patient Services for Rare Blood Disorders. The AD is responsible for the overall patient journey assessing and implementing services and education, how we can increase the quality and efficiency of these services. They will need to ensure that we meet the patient preferences for engagement. They will actively review market research, collect insights from field / case managers and assess data to evolve program offering. This position will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of the Sutimlimab Blood Disorders Patient Solutions, including vendor and performance management. This position will also partner with Quality and Compliance and financial programs, to ensure that all members involved in the Patient Support Programs remain compliant to all relevant SOPs. This role will lead projects related to the optimization of the patient and provider support, including management of program SOPs, call guides and workflows, program reporting and metrics, as well as interface with partner support programs such as Copay, PAP, and Case Management. This is a Cambridge, MA, USA based position.

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

• Build and operationalize best-in-class services to support the rare blood disorders community.
• Assess service levels and capabilities needed for current services.
• Ensure compliance with pharmacovigilance monitoring and reporting requirements. Ensure compliance with Sanofi Genzyme policies.
• Recommend capabilities to scale personalized services. Identify opportunities to streamline processes, leverage technology and champion continuous improvement.
• Maintain knowledge management tools, SOPS, workflows. Ensure approved resources are available to support patient needs.
• Develops annual contracts for PSP that fall within remit, and manage day to day contract compliance.
• Provide direction and guidance to vendor partner(s) on program structure and day-to-day program operations.
• Develop / obtain / maintain approval and training on SOPs related to PSP daily activities.
• Ensure PSP members are trained on all applicable requirements and maintain accurate training records per SOPs.
• Oversee the monthly reconciliation process for Adverse Event (AE) reporting of vendors providing support to Sutimlimab.
• Partner with VENDOR manager to collaborate and understand program utilization of PAP and copay assistance.
• Manage annual budget needed to operate Sutimlimab patient support programs.
• Manage multiple patient and provider support program projects that require alignment of internal and external resources within specified timelines.
• Build and sustain strong working relationships with key internal stakeholders, including field sales, customer operations, patient access, corporate accounts, commercial operations, business analytics, marketing, legal and finance.
• Implement, monitor and analyze program data / reporting and key performance metrics.
• Identify trends and present data insights and complex issues in a clear and concise manner.
• Act as the internal primary point of contact for patient and provider program issues, address and resolve escalated issues, and implement improvements to avoid recurrence.
• Serve as the liaison to the sales and market access teams.
• Lead launch planning for in-house project implementation as applicable.
• Be an active leader on the Patient Services leadership team as we build our best in class patient experience model. Be a leader for change.
• Share best practices across different Sanofi Genzyme Patient Services therapeutic areas.

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