Job detail for 6-month internship – Public Affairs Vaccines

Job title: 6-month internship – Public Affairs Vaccines

● Location: Lyon

● Starting date: February

About the job

As a Public Affairs Vaccines intern within our Global Vaccine Public Affairs team, you will take part in disease and vaccine policy, stakeholder engagement, and advocacy tools and processes. Ready to get started?

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

About Sanofi:

We are 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 :

• Take part in the finalization of the Pneumococcal Stakeholder Engagement Plan

• Participate in the stakeholder mapping of policy makers, experts, influencers, and civil society

• Contribute to the analysis of policy evolution, drivers, and barriers

• Collaborate with public affairs colleagues in key countries to build local stakeholder engagement

About you

● Soft and technical skills: analytical skills, proactivity, autonomy. Knowledge of healthcare issues, the policy environment, lobbying, and vaccine market dynamics. Experience in public affairs.

● Education: Master's degree (bac +5) in management, public affairs, or pharmaceutical sciences.

● Languages: fluent in English.

Why choose us?

• Launch your career with a company that invests in you — and empowers you to reimagine what’s possible.

• Build your future with access to the latest tools, digital innovation, and continuous learning that keep you ahead of the curve.

• 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.

• An attractive internship bonus.

• Depending on your location, access to a company restaurant with a contribution from Sanofi.

• Our recruitment process is designed to be fast and efficient. If your application is accepted, you will receive a call from our recruiter for an initial telephone interview, followed by a quick meeting with the manager.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never been done before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all 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.

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!