Medical Scientific Liaison Autoimmune T1D

Role Overview

Medical Scientific Liaison – Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes (AT1D) at Sanofi, located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. You will build trusted partnerships with healthcare professionals and institutions, driving meaningful scientific exchange in the rapidly evolving Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes landscape within the General Medicines team.

Company Overview

Sanofi is an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people's lives and delivering compelling growth. With deep understanding of the immune system and an innovative pipeline, Sanofi invents medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world.

Role Purpose

To engage healthcare professionals, key opinion leaders, and institutions in high-quality scientific exchange on Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes, facilitate medical education activities, identify unmet medical needs, and support evidence-based treatment approaches in alignment with company strategy and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Engagement

• Engage proactively with healthcare professionals, KOLs, and institutions to share balanced, high-quality scientific information on AT1D, including disease staging, screening, diagnosis, and disease-modifying treatment approaches.
• Plan and facilitate local scientific meetings, hospital staff meetings, webinars, and other medical education activities in line with the Country Medical Plan and Stakeholder Engagement Plan.
• Develop and execute individual stakeholder engagement plans aligned with identified scientific needs and the AT1D Medical Plan.

Insight Generation & Medical Support

• Generate high-value, actionable insights on unmet medical needs, patient identification, treatment barriers, and evidence gaps – and propose appropriate solutions.
• Respond to unsolicited requests for medical information and support investigators in Independent Investigator Research (IIR) submissions and local advisory board activities.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Compliance

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Medical, RWE, HEVA, Pharmacovigilance, Medical Information, Market Access, and Commercial teams, ensuring full compliance with company, industry, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain accurate and timely records of customer engagements through CRM tools to support reporting and insight generation.

Qualifications & Experience

• Education: MD, Pharmacy degree, or postgraduate-level science qualification.
• Experience: Proven background in stakeholder engagement and strategic planning within a medical or scientific field; experience in the AT1D or broader diabetes/immunology therapeutic area is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong scientific communication skills.
• Familiarity with CRM tools.
• Ability to leverage multiple channels and formats to maximize stakeholder impact.
• Strategic thinking and business acumen.
• Learning agility.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Collaborative mindset across functions and teams.
• Arabic (required).
• Advanced spoken and written English (required).

Additional Information

• Help shape the future of care for people living with Autoimmune Type 1 Diabetes, where scientific expertise can directly change patient outcomes.
• Medicines reach more than 100 million people each year at global scale.
• Work in a simpler, digital- and AI-powered organization rethinking how medical teams engage with the world.
• Career development opportunities across functions, regions, and the entire product lifecycle.
• Global scale combined with local expertise backed by a strong culture of collaboration and shared purpose.
• Top-tier healthcare, flexible working, and 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave included in rewards package.
• Sanofi provides equal opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.