Team Assistant and Technical Coordinator

Job description

Job Title

Team Assistant and Project Coordinator

About the Opportunity

The Team assistant and project Co-ordinator is an administrative and project facilitation role. The successful candidate will be responsible for supporting Market Access and Health Technology Appraisals (HTA) processes e.g. Submissions to the National Institute for Health and Care excellence (NICE).

About Sanofi Business Unit

The Patient Access (Market Access) Team works with the NHS to understand a constantly evolving environment and ensure Sanofi's medicines and vaccines are suitably aligned to offer maximum long-term value for our customers. Patient Access brings insight into the organisation and builds strategy based on the insight, working with colleagues across Public Affairs, Communications and across Sanofi's UK business units for whom we act as a business partner. Patient Access produces a coherent ‘access' strategy that considers optimal price, HTA strategy and supporting uptake and use in the NHS. With a portfolio that spans Rare Diseases to Vaccines we rely on collaborative ways of working and creative solutions in order to maintain access to new medicines and vaccines for UK and Irish patients.

As the Sanofi portfolio continues to grow it is an exciting time to be joining us.

Key responsibilities

·  Supports project management processes on HTA submissions;
·  Monitors HTA agencies' activity and reporting, including in the policy environment and disseminates key information within the organisation;
·  Acts as a point of contact for HTA agencies and responds to issues as they arise via the dedicated mailbox (UKIE-HTA);
·  Responsible for the development of HTA systems and records and analysis;
·  Monitor activity on the GB Patient Access mailbox, ensuring that the appropriate individuals are contacted and monitoring responses, so we maintain positive One Sanofi responsiveness through the mailbox;
·  Supports the administration activities for the Patient Access team as required (45% approx);
·  Proactively supports and assists the Head of Patient Access.

About You

To excel in this role you will need to have:-

Essential requirements:

·  Previous administrator experience in a fast paced environment OR graduate;
·  Experienced in SharePoint, project management, systems and processes is essential, and a formal qualification is desirable;
·  High level knowledge of UK Patient Access (Market Access) processes and procedures is desirable;
·  Self-motivated with a demonstrated experience of working effectively in teams;
·  Demonstrated flexibility and the ability to multi task;
·  Demonstrated experience of being able to influence without authority, ensuring others adhere to agreed processes and deadlines;
·  Demonstrated experience of prioritising, working to tight and conflicting deadlines and under pressure;
·  Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (Office 365), particularly excel is essential and advanced level would be desirable.

What Sanofi can offer you

·  A role where you are instrumental to creating best practice and as the organisation grows, you can too;
·  We offer a generous package including flexible benefits, and are committed to helping you have a healthy work-life balance throughout your career with us;
·  Development into other roles through a wide & diverse business;
·  We have highly subsidised restaurant with free tea and coffee;
·  A newly refurbished gym is available for a small and highly competitive annual membership fee;
·  The role is office based in Reading, Thames Valley Park;
·  Parking available onsite;
·  This is a full time role and we support flexible working.

About Sanofi

Empower Life Everyday

At Sanofi we work across human health from vaccines to rare diseases, and consumer healthcare. This creates opportunities to work across different areas to build a diverse and exciting career. Sanofi has the capabilities and resources to support your aspirations to fulfill your ambitions and be the best you can be.

Our purpose at Sanofi is to work passionately every day to understand and solve healthcare needs of people across the world. Our ambition is by 2025, to be a top 3 innovative, global and diversified human healthcare company. One that embraces transformative technologies and is focused on its area of excellence, which means we're not there to try to solve everybody's problems. We want to focus on those areas where we know we are making a difference.

The values we are live by are teamwork, courage, respect and integrity.

At Sanofi diversity and inclusion is foundational to how we operate and embedded in our Core Values. We recognize to truly tap into the richness diversity brings we must lead with inclusion and have a workplace where those differences can thrive and be leveraged to empower the lives of our colleagues, patients and customers. We respect and celebrate the diversity of our people, their backgrounds and experiences and provide equal opportunity for all.