Launch Franchise Head, Turkiye

Launch Franchise Head, Turkiye

• Hiring Manager: General Manager Pharma & Eurasia MCO Lead

  
  

• Location: Istanbul, Turkey

  
  

• Job type: Permanent

  
  

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. As an R&D-driven, AI-empowered biopharma company, we are at the forefront of transforming the practice of medicine by working to turn the impossible into the possible. Our Türkiye team plays a critical role in bringing life-changing innovations to patients across the Eurasia region.

Why This Role Matters:

We are entering an exciting era of launches in Türkiye, with a robust pipeline of innovative assets poised to transform patient outcomes across multiple key therapeutic areas. This is a defining moment for the Launch Franchise.

The Launch Franchise Head is a pivotal leadership role that sits at the intersection of strategy, execution, and cross-functional collaboration. You will be the architect of launch excellence, driving the successful introduction of priority assets from pre-launch planning through market establishment. This is a rare opportunity to shape the commercial future of Sanofi Türkiye, lead a high-performing team, and make a tangible impact on patients' lives.

As a member of the Country Leadership Team, you will have a seat at the table where strategic decisions are made, influencing not only your franchise but the broader direction of our business in Türkiye.

About the Job

Strategic Context:

The Launch Franchise Head is a critical role responsible for driving launch readiness activities across multiple high-impact therapeutic areas, ensuring flawless execution of launch excellence frameworks across the Launch Hub where applicable.

Main Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership & Launch Execution:

• Drive local implementation of launch strategies for assigned therapeutic areas and priority assets
• Deploy the launch excellence framework locally, defining critical success factors, pre- and post-launch KPIs aligned with global standards, and establishing timelines for successful launch execution
• Lead the development and execution of the long-term franchise vision, ensuring strategic alignment and commercial excellence

Team Leadership & Performance Management:

• Lead and inspire Brand/Launch Leads and salesforce across various therapeutic areas to maximize commercial success of promoted assets
• Build and develop a high-performing team capable of executing complex, multi-asset launch strategies

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Governance:

• Establish robust project management, governance, and change management processes to support launch activities
• Collaborate with and coach local teams across Medical, Commercial, Public Affairs, and Market Access functions to ensure deep understanding of launch strategies and industry best practices
• Partner with cross-functional teams to localize and implement critical launch activities across the pre-launch continuum

Business Planning & Financial Management:

• Contribute to comprehensive local business cases, ensuring strong commercial rationale for brand investments
• Oversee local commercial launch budgets, monitor expenses, optimize resource allocation, and deliver regular financial reports to senior management

Risk Management & Launch Readiness:

• Map, monitor, and track core activities across all functional teams to ensure launch readiness and milestone achievement
• Develop and execute risk mitigation strategies to address potential impacts on launch timelines and deliverables
• Lead launch readiness governance with global and local stakeholders, providing regular progress updates and ensuring strategic alignment

Operational Excellence:

• Manage ad-hoc requests, resource allocation, and internal launch communications to support seamless execution

About You

Soft Skills:

• Ability to collaborate with a range of different functions at global and country level to achieve outcomes
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including written and verbal communication of information and recommendations at management level as well as global and cross-functional communication
• Strong interpersonal skills reflecting cultural awareness and sensitivity
• Unique ability to manage group/team dynamics and resolve conflicts
• Solution-oriented and pragmatic mindset
• Entrepreneurial spirit with the ability to build and scale businesses in emerging therapeutic areas

Technical Skills:

• Ability to synthesize complex and diverse inputs to a problem and recommend solutions
• Strong planning and PMO skills with the ability to lead, move at pace, and simplify large complex programs / PMO certification preferred
• Strong Medical/Market Access acumen
• Experience of external/customer interactions
• Robust experience with contributing to global/country brand plans
• Strategic business planning and P&L management experience

Experience in Sales & Marketing Leadership Roles:

• Progressive experience in Marketing/Sales leadership roles, including development of therapeutic area strategy, positioning, and development of new disease areas
• Proven track record of delivering launches in new greenfield therapy areas
• Preferred: successful launch experience in specific therapeutic areas
• Medical Affairs/Market Access experience or acumen
• Experience managing multi-therapeutic area portfolios is highly desirable
• Fluent in English and Turkish

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.

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