• Location: Porto Salvo
• Start date: 1st December 2025
• Duration: 1 year
• Work Model: Hybrid – 3 days per week in the office (Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday)

About the job

As a Public Affairs Trainee, you will support Sanofi’s Market Access, Public Affairs, and Trade team in implementing strategies that improve patient access to treatments. This role offers hands-on experience at the intersection of healthcare policy, patient engagement, and business strategy. You'll gain valuable insights into the pharmaceutical industry while helping to integrate patient perspectives across Sanofi’s operations.

Ready to grow your skills while helping shape the future of healthcare? At Sanofi, you’ll be empowered to learn, ask questions, and bring your ideas to life – all while supported by inspiring mentors and collaborative teams.

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:

• Build relationships with patient groups and other key partners
• Bring patient voices into our work across all stages
• Create easy-to-understand materials for various projects
• Join team meetings to share outside perspectives and patient needs
• Keep up with healthcare policy changes and what they mean for us
• Help organize events that connect patients with our work
• Ensure our projects always keep patients at the center

About you

To excel in this role, you will need to have:

• A degree (or current enrollment) in Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, Science Policy, Communications, Marketing, or a related field, and be able to sign a university agreement to participate in the trainee program.
• Fluency in Portuguese and good working knowledge of English.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain complex topics clearly
• Interest in healthcare and willingness to learn about the pharmaceutical industry
• Collaborative mindset with good organizational abilities
• Confidence in using Microsoft Office tools, especially PowerPoint and Excel.

Nice to have:

• Spanish language proficiency is a plus

Why choose us?

• Stretch your skills through apprenticeships, internships, graduate programs, and international experiences that grow with you.
• Learn from inspiring mentors and collaborative teams while contributing to real projects that shape the future of healthcare.
• Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve.
• Explore more with personalized development plans, short-term gigs, and internal mobility across functions and countries.
• Grow in a purpose-driven company where your voice matters and your work helps improve millions of lives.
• Thrive in inclusive, flexible workplaces that support your personal and professional well-being.
• Launch your career with a company that invests in you — and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.

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Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn’t happen without people – people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let’s be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!