Regional Public Affairs Manager

• Location: Lombardy

About the job

As Regional Public Affairs Manager within our Public Affairs Team, you’ll

serve as Sanofi’s strategic representative in the Italian regional healthcare landscape, accountable for developing and executing comprehensive public affairs strategies – in synergy with the National Public Affairs Leads and in accordance with the Public Affairs Plan – to advance the company’s policy and business priorities and ultimately to enhance its reputation, through innovative activities.

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This role is critical in navigating Italy’s regionalized healthcare system, where understanding local dynamics and building trusted relationships are essential for successful policy advocacy and patient access to innovation.

This role requires a passionate understanding of Italy’s complex regional healthcare systems and governance structures.

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.

Main responsibilities

• Policy Analysis: Monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on regional legislative initiatives and policy trends, reimbursement decisions, and regulatory developments that may impact on Sanofi areas of interest.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Establishing and nurturing productive relationships with key regional stakeholders including regional health authorities, local government officials, healthcare provider organizations, patient advocacy groups, and professional associations such as FIMP, FIMG and FederFarma.
• Strategic Advocacy: Identifying/anticipating policy opportunities as well as potential challenges at regional levels, developing ad hoc tailored approaches to establish a constructive dialogue with regional healthcare decision-makers regarding Sanofi’s therapeutic areas and business objectives.
• Cross-functional Leadership: Working closely with clinical study unit, communication, medical, market access, marketing, and commercial teams to educate about the evolution of external political environment and public affairs opportunities in supporting broader patient access to innovation in line with business goals.
• Crisis Management: Providing strategic counsel during public affairs challenges, helping to protect and enhance Sanofi’s reputation through effective communication and stakeholder management.

About you

• Experience: Should ideally have five or more years of working experience in healthcare either in pharma company or public affairs consultancy agencies, Proven experience in building and managing an extensive network of Stakeholders; Solid track record in elaborate and execute multistakeholder projects.
• Soft and technical skills: Political acumen and deep-knowledge of the regional environment; Ability to identify and segment decision-makers and other relevant stakeholders; Strategic thinking and planning; Cross-functional collaboration with other Sanofi functions; Problem-solving and analytical skills; Communication and negotiation skills.
• Education: Should ideally hold a Politic Science, Economics, Communication or Scientific degree; a master’s degree in healthcare management/policy will be an additional advantage.
• Languages: Italian as mother tongue, fluent in English.

Why choose us?

Ready to push the limits of what’s possible? Join Sanofi in one of our corporate functions and you can play a vital part in the performance of our entire business while helping to make an impact on millions around the world.

• Make your work count by supporting a company that brings life-changing treatments to millions — and is committed to doing right by patients, communities, and the planet.
• Drive progress from within by helping simplify, scale, and modernize how a global biopharma business delivers smarter, faster, and more sustainably.
• Support teams across science, medicine, and operations by building better systems, shaping bold strategies, and enabling innovation at speed.
• Make an impact across borders and functions, collaborating with leaders to turn complex challenges into real-world solutions.
• Advance your career through stretch roles, cross-functional moves, and development opportunities designed to match your ambition.
• Thrive in inclusive, high-performing teams where every role matters and every voice helps shape what’s next.

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