General Medicines

“I have always looked for ways to help patients and this has been made possible at Sanofi.”

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at the age of 13 and experience has taught me that it is essential to know the disease well enough to be able to live life to the fullest. At the age of 20 and while finishing my nursing studies, I founded a patients’ association in my city. Since then, my purpose has always been to educate people living with chronic diseases to improve their future.

I have been able to fulfil my purpose at Sanofi in the work that I do in Public Affairs with DIGUAN, an educational project launched in 2013 that helps young people with diabetes to control their disease, increase adherence to treatment and improve their quality of life. Our goal at Sanofi will always be to take care of patients and support key stakeholders on this journey.

Montserrat Queralt Viñals

Public Affairs, General Medicines & Vaccines Spain

“At Sanofi there are no ‘yours’ or ‘mine’ tasks, we have one common goal – our patients’ health.”

Like never before, spreading the word on flu vaccination may not only protect people’s lives but decrease the burden on healthcare systems during the overlapping flu season and COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why hand in hand with Sanofi Pasteur, a big part of our General Medicines team volunteered to make extra calls to the uncovered General Practitioners in support of flu vaccination in Ukraine, contributing in this way during the global pandemic. I believe that as human beings, we are more resilient than we give ourselves credit for. I am strongly convinced that at Sanofi, we can do anything for our patients, as long as we put our minds to it.

Oleksandr Nosonovych

Commercial Operations Head, General Medicines Ukraine

“You will never make history if you stay in your comfort zone”

Access to healthcare is the greatest challenge in my market and being part of General Medicines gave me the opportunity to make the greatest impact. Drawing on the passion, resilience and unparalleled support of a cross functional team, we successfully developed Project Apollo, a unique partnership between Milvik (Bima), a micro-insurance company, and Sanofi Pakistan. The vision of the project is to improve health outcomes by promoting access to specialized healthcare, affordable medicines and improved clinical practice through capacity building. This partnership could only be achieved due to Sanofi’s work environment that has the right set of people, culture and tools. This is how I am making a difference. How will you make yours?

Shaheryar Kazi

Senior Executive Manager Market Access & Public Affairs, Pakistan

“I’m very enthusiastic about customer satisfaction, innovation & technology: Sanofi is the right place to be.”

Over my 7 years working at Sanofi, I’ve had countless opportunities to participate in initiatives addressing our patients’ or customers’ needs. I have seen great support from leadership and partner areas. The most recent example is a partnership with a drugstore to develop a direct to patient e-commerce with the purpose of delivering health through a digital experience, fasten our capabilities and knowledge within a new conversion platform in e-channel, providing high quality services and competitive prices. I`m confident that we will lead the transformation on patients' care through digital experiences.

Marcelo Nadruz

Digital Acceleration Head, General Medicines Brazil

“No matter which position I take in Sanofi, the customer is always my top priority!”

I joined Sanofi in 2014 and in 6 years, I’ve been able to explore multiple functions, from new product planning, to brand marketing, and operations. In 2021, I’m taking a new challenge! I’m leading a team of 80+ people to re-invent our future Healthcare Professionals engagement model in China with 3 key medicines. COVID-19 has accelerated the digital transformation and bringing the whole industry to a “new normal”. At Sanofi, we innovate our way to engage our customers and provide value-driven and precise services to them with 100% remote interactions. The digital solutions such as smart engine, will enable us to better understand our customer needs, tailor and personalize our services, and partner with them by holding customer-centricity as our core.

Weizhen Fu

Head of Multi-Channel Liaison, China

“Opportunities don’t happen, you create them.”

It started as a general Friday coffee discussion between us where we discussed – “How a company the size of Sanofi can leverage partner led innovation to unlock value through new technologies?” That’s how BRIDGE was born, with a mission to co-create with external stakeholders to develop meaningful solutions, reinforce connecting with customers as a tech-driven community conscious healthcare company, and to build a culture of innovation and supplier diversity within Sanofi. From identifying the right startups/entrepreneurs to collaborate with, to designing the framework of the program and even providing a platform to the BRIDGE startups to be finalists and winners at a global event like Vivatech, we loved every bit of establishing the brand BRIDGE.

Karan Bhatia (left)

Global Head of Source to Value Solutions, India

Chandani Palshetkar (right)

Business Process Owner – Global Business Solutions, India

“In the new Virtual Healthcare franchise agility allows you to work in terms of responsiveness, speed and above all, innovation”

Virtual Healthcare Franchise is a population health solution provider bringing personalized disease management solutions to improve patient experience of care, health outcomes and optimize costs for chronic disease management. When it was set up, the challenge was to figure out how to build a completely new business line for Sanofi. We made an ambitious bet: to build a totally flat organization, relying on agile ways of working, not on hierarchy. We adopted agility as our core working principle in the setup of Virtual Healthcare ways of working. The tribe collectively set priorities, then self-organized into smaller purpose-driven squads either supporting priority geographies or supporting transversal topics such as population health. I believe agility has really pushed me out of my comfort zone and given that much needed “organized chaos” to innovate and chart my own course for success. I am excited for the huge opportunity ahead of us to make an impact on population health and to ultimately chart the way for a completely new business for Sanofi.

Indira Umareddy

Global Population Health Strategy Lead, Virtual Healthcare Franchise

“Thanks to the work being done at Sanofi, I’m traveling on a long road to be inclusive and build a diverse organization.”

I believe I am an inclusive leader that strives for a diverse organization. In the year 2020 with the pandemic and significant loss of life due to social injustice, I took a look in the mirror and knew I needed to do more. I’m fortunate to work for an organization that promotes Inclusion & Diversity. Throughout my career in transplantation I have worked with the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS). In 2020, the ASTS initiated The Boldly Against Racism campaign. This provided a logical partnership between Sanofi and the ASTS focused on hidden bias and inclusion and diversity. The goal of this partnership will be to educate transplant surgeons to understand hidden bias and purposefully work to ensure equal access to care across ALL patients.

Kevin Campbell

Head of Transplant, General Medicines, US