Supply Chain Product Planner

About the role

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere faster. The Supply Chain Product Planner is responsible for End-to-End Supply Chain planning for a set of rare disease products along a 0-to-3 year horizon, covering both IBP and S&OE horizons. They ensure that market demand is covered by available supply, in order to provide timely, high-quality and cost-effective supply of medicines to patients.

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, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible.

Main Responsibilities

• End-to-End Supply Chain Planning & Execution: Ensure product balancing between demand & supply and gap remediation across both 0–3 months (S&OE) and 4–36 months (IBP) horizons; responsible for net demand propagation, validation and product deployment plans in Kinaxis.
• Master Data & Planning Parameters: Create and maintain product-related master data and planning parameters in Kinaxis, ensuring alignment with End-to-End Product Leader’s strategy/segmentation guidelines; sole accountable for master data values owned and entered in workflows according to site Master Data governance; document methods and calculations for determining master data values; contribute to Master Data Continuous Improvement loops in coordination with Master Data Stewards, Data & Process Manager, and SC Centers of Excellence; adhere to governance of meetings established in playbooks to ensure regular revision of master data values; ensure that master data values comply with business rules in the M&S Master Data Playbook and are reviewed when specified triggers occur.
• IBP and S&OE cycles: Contribute to the standard End-to-End Planning & Execution decision loop in collaboration with key stakeholders (Markets Supply Chain, Global Supply Planning, Global Logistics, Franchise, Regulatory, Finance).
• Product Strategy Support: Assist in product-driven strategic and budget planning, provide data-driven insights for long-term decisions, and incorporate strategic changes into planning systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 4+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning (demand planning, supply chain management, inventory), E2E supply chain planning, or related fields.
• Strong background in Supply Chain Planning, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry, with proven track record of building plans and aligning stakeholders, driving decision making.
• Proficient with advanced planning systems (e.g., Kinaxis, SAP, dVSM, Plai).
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems and regulatory submissions process.
• Successful experience working in matrix environments (cross-functional and multi-global location stakeholder management).

Qualifications

• Educational background in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations Management, Logistics, or related fields.
• Advanced understanding and experience with Integrated Business Planning and Sales & Operations Execution processes.
• APICS certification is an asset.
• Experience working with financials and budgeting.

Skills

• Interpersonal: Ability to engage and collaborate with multiple partners within and across sites to build scenarios and optimize business outcomes.
• Change agent: Ensure best practice implementation and system adoption/evolution.
• Proactivity: Anticipate and act on planning needs.
• Transversal collaboration: Work effectively with different functions such as market SC-BP, Site product planner, External manufacturing.
• Analytical & creative: Analyze data, collect insights, and build mitigations.
• Synthetic thinking: Build recommendations and drive decision making.
• Fluent in English.