CHC AMET Supply Chain Head

At Opella Healthcare, we are united by one sharedMission– we work passionately every day, to putHealth in Your Hands. We are committed to making healthcare as simple as it should be, thus helping people help themselves. This Mission is the core of our philosophy, driving all that we do to focus on people—our consumers, customers, healthcare professionals, employees, and the Opella Brands that support them.

As a top-three global player in Consumer Healthcare, we are raising the bar with a bold ambition to grow, perform, and outpace the market. We aim to build a more agile and responsive organization capable of delivering our Vision and Mission. To achieve this, we need exceptional talent to shape Opella’s future and help us succeed. Together, we embrace our Challenger spirit, driven by our commitment to be Outcome-obsessed, Courageous, Radically Simple, and All In Together.

About The Job

As a Supply Chain Lead for the AMET Zone Consumer Healthcare business, you will be responsible for defining and executing the end-to-end supply chain strategy to drive both top-line growth and bottom-line efficiency. You will lead the transformation of the AMET Supply Chain team into a high-performing, tech-enabled, and customer-centric organization.

In this role, you will oversee Integrated Business Planning (IBP), demand forecasting, inventory management, and supply optimization to ensure seamless operations. You will also act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for all supply-related matters, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders—including manufacturing partners, logistics providers, and commercial teams—to proactively manage supply risks and opportunities.

Reporting directly to the AMEA Consumer Healthcare Supply Chain Head, this position offers a unique opportunity to drive operational excellence, cost efficiency, and sustainable supply chain strategies in a dynamic and high-growth market.

Key Tasks and Accountabilities

• Lead the IBP process in AMET Zone to best in class standards to ensure that sales and profitability targets are achieved.
• Drive demand planning excellence via statistical forecasting in Kinaxis, leveraging available data/information such as sell in, sell out and stock in trade data and business or trade intelligence to be able to develop a robust 36-month forecast and sustainably achieve forecast performance targets.
• Deliver service excellence at optimum cost and inventory. Proactively manage risks or opportunities on product supply from internal or external manufacturing with appropriate and timely communication to key business and operations partners and manage arbitration with key stakeholders (GM, Commercial, Finance, Science Hub, etc.).
• Identify and execute the appropriate sourcing, logistics and distribution strategies to continuously drive efficiencies and cost optimization, while ensuring sustainable supply and delivering service excellence
• Anticipate and surface potential consequences of regulatory events relating to new product launches, site transfers or variations with various stakeholders (GSC, internal or external manufacturers, Science Hub, etc.).
• Establish a governance and drumbeat with internal and external manufacturing sources, and logistics and distribution service providers on performance reviews, long term capacity planning and BCPs to ensure stable and continuous supply.
• Spearhead logistics and distributor contract performance management to ensure agreed service level agreements are met to deliver high customer service satisfaction and strong growth.
• Ensure all supply contracts comply with relevant Acts, legal demand and ethical standards.  Regularly update SOPs and internal procedures to ensure adherence across the organization.
• Identify and correct unsafe conditions or behaviors and immediately surface serious incidents.  Promote and role model healthy and safe workplace environment and policy in distribution centers, warehouses, distributors, office.

Skills, Experience & Knowledge Requirements

• The position is both strategic and operational and requires an individual with strong experience in the management of the end-to-end supply chain, internal and external manufacturers, and stakeholders to structurally transform the Supply Chain team in AMET Zone.
• Exceptional leadership skills to engage and grow the team toward a culture of high performance and collaboration.
• Possess excellent communication skills to articulate, motivate and interact with senior management teams.
• Influencing and negotiation skills to drive sustainable change in a high growth potential zone in the AMEA region.
• In depth knowledge of key supply chain processes (IBP, forecasting, customer care, distribution, cost, compliance) and internal and external manufacturing management.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills, including the proven ability to adapt to a dynamic project environment and manage multiple projects.
• Fluent in English.
• French is a plus.

Why Choose us?

• an international work environment, in which you can develop your talent and realize ideas and innovations within a competent team.
• access to internal recruitment and development libraries - you can create your own career path within Sanofi; your professional development will be supported purposefully.
• flexible home office policy, with a possibility to work up to 50% of time from home, where you can easily schedule your office days
• an attractive package of benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (mental health support, legal and financial consulting)
• Gender neutral paid parental leave as well as volunteer days

PursueProgress.DiscoverExtraordinary.

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s discover extraordinary together.

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