Global Supply Chain Product Planner

Job Title: Global Supply Chain Product Planner

About the job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as Global Supply Chain Product Planner within our [Team Name], will be to [summary of opportunity].

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 with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:

The main purpose of a Product Planner is to ensure that market demands for a product are met by supply along the IBP and S&OE horizon for commercial and new launch products including ramp up phase.

Job Purpose

• E2E Supply Chain Planning: Executes IBP and own S&OE horizon ensuring product balancing between demand & supply and gap remediation, responsible for net demand propagation, validation, and product deployment plans in Kinaxis.
• Master Data & Planning Parameters: Responsible for creation and continuous accuracy of products related master data and planning parameters in Kinaxis, ensuring alignment with E2E Product Leader's strategy/segmentation guidelines.
• IBP monthly cycle: contributes to the standard monthly and weekly E2E Planning process & decision loop in collaboration with Supply Planning and Site Planners
• Long term Strategy Support: Assist in strategic and budget planning, provide data-driven insights for long-term decisions, and incorporate strategic changes into planning systems.

Key Accountabilities

Responsible for End-to-End Supply Chain Planning for a product or set of products leveraging Kinaxis, dVSM and Plai.

IBP Horizon

• Drive ownership of product supply chain by validating net demand across all nodes (E2E) in Kinaxis on IBP horizon for a product or set of products.
• Shares net demand requirements with CMOs via EM&S
• Decides on escalations on exceptions on demand replenishment and deployment rules to Supply Planners and/or Product Leader
• Ensure that the deployment plan is aligned to the Global IBP Plan endorsed by the Franchise, to include enforcement/escalation of policy, inventory targets and financial impact.
• Validates supply plan provided by Supply Planning for product(s) E2E and monitors closely safety stock health.
• In relationship with other departments, especially GSP and Market Supply Chain, simulate scenarios across the network to develop risk management plans, address large scale supply issues and in response to GBU demand scenarios.
• Find solutions for provided supply response scenarios (constraints) e.g. product prioritization.

S&OE horizon

• Conduct Distribution Requirements planning: Finished Goods Packaging from markets to sites.
• Support production prioritization in case of crisis situation.
• Providing guidelines for sites to prioritize short-term issues.
• Understand the impact of risks/issues on the sites/CMO side on scheduled deliveries/FG availability.
• Report short-term issues impacting the IBP-horizon via S&OE process.

Responsible for Products Inventory Management & optimization:

• Implement inventory strategy defined by E2E Product Leaders and set inventory planning parameters in system (Kinaxis) across all nodes at sites and CMOs.
• Monitor and adjust inventory levels in Kinaxis to meet market demands and minimize costs, leveraging dVSM as a strategic tool.

Responsible for creation and update of Master Data for a product or set of products in Kinaxis in accordance with the strategy defined by the E2E Product Leader

• Maintain proper product related planning parameters (e.g., BOD = Bills of distribution, inventory targets, PV=Production Version priorities) needed to support plans and ensure changes are made and formally aligned across the SC.

Monthly Planning Cycle – IBP decision loop:

• Support preparation for the Global Supply Review
• Maintain product performance metrics and drive corrective actions.
• Assess, coordinate, and implement mitigation plan from IBP. 

Long term Strategy Support:

• Support the E2E Product Leader in strategic tasks such as strategic planning and budget planning.
• Provide data-driven insights and recommendations to facilitate long-term planning and decision-making.
• Incorporate strategic decisions into planning and systems (e.g., Product to be produced in new site à reflect in planning system)

About you:

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Engineering or Supply Chain or equivalent
• 4+ years in manufacturing or supply in biopharmaceutical industry or equivalent
• 3+ years’ experience conducting data-driven analysis and communication findings to management.
• Fluent in English

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced understanding and experience with the Integrated Business Planning and Sales & Operations Execution processes.
• 3+ years of demand forecast and supply planning management experience.
• Experience in launch and ramp up of new products.
• Knowledge of pharmaceutical manufacturing quality systems and regulatory submissions process.
• Knowledge of management systems and tools as Kinaxis, SAP, dVSM and Plai
• Experience of working with Financials and Budgeting
• 5+ years of successful experience and demonstrated ability and successful experience working in matrix environments (cross Functional and multi global location stakeholders’ management).
• Capacity to work transversally (with different functions such as market SC-BP, Site product planner, External manufacturing....)
• APICS certification

Languages: Fluent in English

Why Choose Us?

• Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
• Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.

Sanofi Inc. and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employers committed to a culturally diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.