Regional Patient Advocacy Lead - Transplant

About the role

• Location: Remote, US
• Territory: Preference for the candidate to be based on the west coast to cover priority states including, but not limited to, California, Arizona, Washington, & Colorado.

About the Job

The Regional Patient Advocacy Lead - Transplant will be responsible for developing and executing strategies to engage Patient Advocacy Groups (PAGs) and support community-based activities that advance kidney donation, transplantation and related policy changes. This role will report to the Head of

Transplant Regional Patient Advocacy and is part of the US General Medicines Public Affairs and Patient Advocacy team. This role partners closely with Sanofi's Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) cross functional teams and informs strategy and execution with PAGs and other key stakeholders in the external transplant ecosystem.

It requires coordination across corporate affairs, commercial, medical, and other Sanofi teams to drive awareness and action at the national, state, and community levels. Key responsibilities include creating and executing external stakeholder engagement strategy, embedding advocacy programming into community-level strategies to improve public health and patient outcomes.

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.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop deep understanding of the solid organ transplantation landscape across key communities and regions, including barriers to both living and deceased donation
• Align Public Affairs and Patient Advocacy Strategies to regional strategy
• Design PAG specific community engagement plans to improve public trust and increase donations and transplantation rates
• Engage with appropriate local stakeholders to advance state-level policies that support living donation, organ donation, and equitable access to transplantation
• Lead education efforts of high-visibility initiatives such as donation events, peer mentorship programs, community health worker/ patient navigation, and aligned campaigns
• Identify and nurture local champions and PAG influencers; support their ability to engage media, policymakers, and peers on improving public trust in transplantation and willingness to donate
• Maintain the strategic link between national advocacy efforts and local activation, ensuring alignment of messages, resources, and timing
• Serve as the advocacy partner within cross-functional teams to support matrix-driven strategies that require targeted community or PAG engagement
• Represent Sanofi at advocacy summits, patient forums, and relevant external coalitions; support regulatory-compliant participation in community-based activations
• Contribute to cross-functional planning and performance tracking by understanding and communicating KPIs and MBOs related to local advocacy-driven impact and engagement
• Maintain strict adherence to all regulatory, legal, compliance, and corporate guidelines

Basic Qualifications

• B.A. / B.S. degree required
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in healthcare in patient advocacy, market access, publicaffairs, corporate affairs, HEOR, or medical affairs
• Demonstrated experience engaging with Patient Advocacy Groups (PAGs), policy stakeholders, or community-based organizations.

Preferable Qualifications

• Advanced degree (e.g., MBA, MPH, PharmD) preferred
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams
• Have a valid driver's license
• Ability to travel up to 50% of the time for regional and national events, including field team engagement and community activities

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.
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• Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Additional information

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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Pay and benefits

The salary range for this position is: $148,500.00 - $214,500.00

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.