Clinical Outcome Assessment; COA Lead

Job Title:

Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) Lead

Grade: L3

Hiring Manager:
Benoit Arnould

Location:

Cambridge, MA or Morristown, NJ (Hybrid policy applies, 3 days/week in office)

Are you ready to shape the future of medicine? The race is on to speed up drug discovery and development to find answers for patients and their families. Your skills could be critical in helping our teams accelerate progress.

The remit of the Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA) team at Sanofi is to incorporate the patients’ perspective (and other subjective perspectives) into clinical research through the utilization of Clinical Outcome Assessments (COAs) and other methods.

The COA team is part of Sanofi’s Global Research and Development (R&D), and reports into the Patient-Informed Development & Health Value Translation (PID&HVT) department.

Consultation with regulators and key opinion leaders is common.

Example research activities for the COA team include development of a disease conceptual model; selection of COA instruments to measure specific concepts of interest; psychometric assessment of the measurement properties; development and validation of new COA instruments; development of briefing books or dossiers for regulatory consideration of COAs.

Internal customers include primarily R&D, HEVA, Medical Affairs, Market Access, Biostatistics, and Commercial.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

The COA Lead is accountable for the definition of COA endpoint strategies and responsible for the conduct of related activities in relation to specific programs, assets or indications. The scope evolves as the COA Lead gains experience in role and demonstrates ability to take more in quantity (TA portfolio), impact (primary and key secondary endpoints) and exposure (strategic assets or indications).

• Contribute to the Target Value Proposition with respect to patient-centric outcomes value messaging
• Contribute to a successful strategy for innovative product by an optimized COA endpoint strategy aligned with Sanofi’s Best In Class / First In Class approach
• Generate a comprehensive understanding of a disease and treatment paradigm through primary and secondary research
• Advise on the use and/or development of Fit-for-Purpose COA instruments in clinical research projects; including gap analyses, implementation, statistical analyses, psychometric validation and dissemination
• Manage the qualitative and quantitative research projects to close the validation gap(s) on the selected COA instruments (including vendor management)
• Prepare the scientific documents (reports, regulatory documents, publications,...) for internal and external communication

Specific role activities for a COA Lead also include advanced activities:

• Leads specific internal organizational initiatives, within COA and PID-HVT (eg. RACI, templates, guidance)
• Advocate for the role of quantitative and qualitative COA across Sanofi, participate in creating and delivering education on COAs for internal business partners
• Mentor more junior COA scientists, share specific knowledge and expertise with the COA team; provide direction and delegate specific tasks to associate COA scientist
• Implement new methodologies and promote innovative approaches.
• Define or update overarching approach and framework to COA endpoints strategies in strategic area (eg Oncology, I&I, rare diseases)

• Relevant experience in COA in Pharma/CRO/Consultancy: ideally proven track record from scientific publications in core COA disciplines such as COA data analyses and/or creation or validation of new COAs and/or COA endpoint strategy implementation
• Knowledge of the drug development process and the regulatory (FDA, EMA, local agencies) and payer (EUnetHTA, NICE,…