Nicole Farmer

Nicole is currently the General Manager for UK & Ireland Sanofi Genzyme, the specialty business unit of Sanofi. She has over 30 years of experience of working in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector.

Nicole joined Sanofi Genzyme in 2016 as Head of MS for the UK & Ireland franchise, where she continued to build on the success and develop Sanofi’s MS franchise. She then moved on to lead the MS franchise for Europe for two years before returning to the UK & Ireland business in her new role, in May 2020.

Before joining Sanofi Genzyme, Nicole spent 2 years with Baxter, where she led the spin-out of the bioscience business to form Baxalta, where she was the UK Managing Director. Prior to this Nicole spent 26 years at Bayer (formally Schering Health Care) where she had roles ranging for sales representative for fertility care to UK Divisional Head, leading the radiological business for capital equipment, software and contrast media.

Nicole has a biochemistry degree and an MBA from Aston Business School.

Nicole has a passion for supporting others. She is a listening volunteer for Samaritans, an organization supporting people in crisis or suicidal, and mentors’ new volunteers. She has led teams of “non-sporty” people to complete triathlons and multi-day triathlons, and adventure races, with the strong conviction we can all do so much more than we imagine.