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Head of Immunology Portfolio Development

Synthorx

Synthorx

Gentilly, France
Posted on Oct 17, 2025

Job Title: Head of Immunology Portfolio Development

Location: Paris, France

About the Job

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.

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?

Main Responsibilities:

  • Lead Global Project Team Heads: Lead a team of 8-10 GPH who have projects from research through commercialization. Serve as their manager and coach, helping them achieve excellence in their roles at team leaders. Ensure appropriate GPT leadership across the immunology portfolio

  • Drive Portfolio Execution: Help the GPTs attain portfolio goals for their programs and manage resources efficiently in line with the TA strategy

  • Contribute to TA Strategy: Work with cross-functional leaders, including commercial, medical, clinical development, translational medicine, and research to develop the Immunology TA strategy.

  • Serve as a member of the TA leadership team, participating the success of the TA management and portfolio development and optimization.

About You

Qualifications:

  • Education: A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree is Required. An advanced degree (e.g., PhD, MD/PhD, PharmD) in immunology or a related field is preferred.

  • Experience: 10+ years of experience in research, biotech, or pharmaceutical development is required.

  • Experience within multiple disease areas is preferred.

  • Prior experience as an asset team lead is preferred, especially including late development and regulatory submission experience, and including more than one asset.

  • Experience across multiple disease areas and multiple functions is favorable. Prior experience as a manager is preferred.

  • This position may require up to 25% overall travel.

An ideal candidate will

  • Think strategically about opportunities and risks

  • Manage a large portfolio, but understand the details of individual asset programs

  • Solve problems

  • Make challenging portfolio trade-off decisions

  • Communicate accurately and succinctly, tailored for different internal and external audiences

  • Be a coach, mentor, and role model to other leaders

  • Work collaboratively

Why Choose Us?

  • Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.

  • Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or a lateral move, at home or internationally.

  • Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.

  • Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs, and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

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!