Head Rare XLSD Marketing

Cambridge, MA (Hybrid)

$233K/yr – $336K/yrSenior LevelFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and scale the Rare/xLSD portfolio, leading AI-driven marketing, digital transformation, and a multi-disciplinary team across brand strategy, patient experience, congress strategy, and KOL engagement.

  • Own portfolio strategy, forecasting, and KPI discipline
  • Lead digital and AI-enabled marketing initiatives across the portfolio
  • Coordinate cross-functional teams and external partnerships to drive patient-centric growth

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Own portfolio vision, strategy, forecasting, and supply planning across the full Rare/xLSD franchise
  • Build and scale AI and large language model (LLM) marketing capabilities across the portfolio
  • Lead, develop, and manage the xLSD marketing team across portfolio strategy, account marketing, patient experience, digital innovation, congress and key opinion leader (KOL) engagement, speaker bureau, and marketing operations
  • Drive brand planning, campaign and messaging strategy, and key performance indicator (KPI) development and tracking across account and patient workstreams for each brand
  • Serve as the senior U.S. commercial voice for the xLSD portfolio, ensuring brand strategies are grounded in market insights, patient journey understanding, and competitive dynamics
  • Oversee development and execution of awareness month programming, community engagement activities (including Rare Ambassadors and awareness days), and congress strategy across the portfolio
  • Champion and drive the strategic ambition to transition the xLSD franchise to a fully digital marketing model within two years
  • Partner with the Director of Account & Patient Digital Innovation to lead AI-enabled patient identification and brand conversion initiatives — including 1Rare.Ai, IQVIA, and Turing — across the portfolio
  • Oversee digital strategy development including account and patient websites, paid and organic media, search engine optimization (SEO) and geo-targeting, customer relationship management (CRM), social media execution (Meta, TikTok, Reddit, YouTube), and representative-triggered email programs
  • Ensure digital innovation capabilities are leveraged as shared services across the xLSD portfolio for maximum efficiency and impact

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree required. Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.
  • Extensive pharmaceutical or biotech marketing experience, with meaningful rare disease, specialty, or orphan drug marketing experience strongly preferred

Preferred

  • Extensive pharmaceutical or biotech marketing experience, with meaningful rare disease, specialty, or orphan drug marketing experience strongly preferred
  • Familiarity with digital and AI-enabled marketing tools and platforms — including Veeva, CRM systems, 1Rare.Ai, IQVIA, and social media platforms — strongly preferred; experience managing complex budgets and marketing operations across a multi-brand portfolio
  • Experience managing a portfolio of brands simultaneously, ideally across multiple disease areas or indications preferred.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and scale AI and digital marketing capabilities in a rare disease or specialty pharmaceutical environment preferred.
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We are an R&D driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. We apply our deep understanding of the immune system to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world, with an innovative pipeline that could benefit millions more. Our team is guided by one purpose: we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives; this inspires us to drive progress and deliver positive impact for our people and the communities we serve, by addressing the most urgent healthcare, environmental, and societal challenges of our time. Interactions with this account must comply with the Terms: https://bit.ly/sanofi-terms

Founded in 2014
Paris, Île-de-France, FRA
90K employees (5,755 in marketing)
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$233K/yr – $336K/yr

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$3B
Post IPO Debt, 5 months ago

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    Post IPO Debt • $3B
  • Jun 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $1.7B
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