Associate Director, Health Informatics Technology (HIT)

About the position

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 Health Information Technology (HIT) Associate Director helps drive health information technology initiatives with health systems and other organized customers (PBGs, W/Ds, GPOs, etc.) in improving COPD care delivery. The HIT Associate Director will work closely with the Strategic Solutions Team, Account Managers, and Medical Value and Outcomes (MVO) team in supporting health system C/D suite stakeholders in identifying opportunities to optimize their clinical workflows by utilizing existing technology investments (ex. EHR, PHM, CRM, Digital Solutions). They will also engage to help navigate systems gather, interpret, and organize data into actionable insights that health systems and other organized customers (PBGs, W/Ds, GPOs, etc.) can use to improve operations. 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.

Responsibilities

  • Align Sanofi’s HIT capabilities with health system HIT capabilities.
  • Identify and develop HIT market shaping opportunities between Sanofi and relevant HIT vendors, influencers, policy makers, customers, or multiple stakeholders within key market ecosystems.
  • Establish relationships with HIT decision makers within health systems and other large organized customers to facilitate access to Sanofi’s respiratory portfolio.
  • Capture actionable insights about health systems and other organized customers and local market dynamics.
  • Organize and execute workflow assessments to identify opportunities for customers to improve their respiratory workflow for before, during, and after the patient visit.
  • Help understand current healthcare data and how it could be utilized to help improve operations.
  • Work collaboratively with cross-functional team to uncover opportunities, and/or uncover underlying or unexpressed clinical/customer technology needs.
  • Play an active role in executive briefings and business roles with the Account Managers
  • Contribute to the business plans to include opportunity development, strategic account targeting and planning, and developing competitive strategies to successfully meet sales goals.
  • Ensures key stakeholders; marketing, IT, medical affairs, market access, and operations, are fully briefed and aligned on relevant business opportunities.
  • Provide insights to marketing to help them develop new resources and tools for use in-market.
  • Assist marketing in monitoring external technical and business environment.
  • Provide educational support to the Account Team regarding existing HIT capabilities and emerging trends.
  • Act as a technical expert to the broader Account Management and Respiratory Business Unit.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, marketing, healthcare or related field.
  • Minimum of 10 years of experience in health information technology, marketing, or commercial field.

Nice-to-haves

  • Strong IT acumen & knowledge of HIT platforms and applications.
  • Understands clinical workflows, how to evaluate them, and the ability to recommend ways to optimize them utilizing technology.
  • Strong knowledge and understanding of how HIT is currently leveraged in US market and within health systems.
  • Experience working for an HIT Vendor, Digital Health Vendor, or within IT at a health system.
  • Epic certified.
  • Solid project management skills.
  • Leader in an ever-evolving environment, with demonstrated use of change management strategies/tactics to influence new ways of thinking and working.
  • Manages conflict with composure and demonstrates managerial courage.
  • MBA or other relevant advanced degree.

Benefits

  • 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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