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 0-to-3 years horizon, covering both IBP and S&OE horizons. He/she ensures that markets demand is covered by available supply, in order to provide timely, high-quality and cost-effective supply of our medicines to our patients.

Main Responsibilities

• End-to-End Supply Chain Planning & Execution: Ensures 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: Responsible for creation and continuous accuracy of product related master data and planning parameters in Kinaxis, ensuring alignment with End-to-End Product Leader's strategy/segmentation guidelines.
• Sole accountable for the master data values owned and to be entered in workflows, according to site Master Data governance; Documenting the way and potential calculation to determine Master Data Values they own; Contributes to Master Data CI loop in coordination with Master Data Stewards and the Data & Process Manager (sites) and SC Centers of Excellence; Adhere to the governance of meetings established in playbooks of reference to ensure regular revision of MD values; Responsible for ensuring that the value of the Master Data they own comply with the business rules featured in the M&S Master Data Playbook, and are reviewed when the triggers specified in the M&S Master Data Playbook occur.
• IBP (monthly) and S&OE (weekly) cycles: Contributes 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: Assists in product-driven strategic and budget planning, provide data-driven insights for long-term decisions, and incorporates strategic changes into planning systems.

About You

• Basic Qualifications: Bachelors degree with 4+ years of experience in Supply Chain Planning (Demand planning, Supply chain management, inventory), E2E supply chain planning, or any related fields.
• Strong background in Supply Chain Planning, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry, with proven track record of building plannings and aligning stakeholders, driving decision making.
• Proficient with advanced planning system (i.e. Kinaxis, SAP, dVSM, Plai or others).
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems and regulatory submissions process.
• Successful experience and demonstrated ability and successful experience working in matrix environments (cross Functional and multi global location stakeholders’ management).

Preferred Qualifications

• Educational background in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations management, logistics, or related fields.
• Advanced understanding and experience with the Integrated Business Planning and Sales & Operations Execution processes.
• APICS certification is an asset.
• Experience of working with Financials and Budgeting.

Soft Skills

• Interpersonal skills: 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 is a must, given the anticipation component of the position.
• Capacity to work transversally (with different functions such as market SC-BP, Site product planner, External manufacturing....)
• High analytical capabilities and creativity to analyze data, collect insights and build Mitigations.
• Synthetic mind to build recommendations and drive decision making.

Languages

• Fluent in English