Industrial Network Capacity Planning Specialty Care and Business Process Owner

Job Title: Industrial Network Capacity Planning Specialty Care and Business Process Owner

Location: Cambridge, MA

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.

As a global manufacturing industry, we’re the bridge between the science that happens in our research laboratories and the communities and patients we serve.  

Our M&S ambition is to build a modern, industry-leading manufacturing & supply network, bringing together talented people and cutting-edge process technologies and data to reliably deliver high-quality, affordable & sustainable medicines and vaccines in the short, mid, and long term.  

Sanofi's manufacturing and Supply organization decided to strengthen its Strategy, Industrial Network Management, and manufacturing System Processes. This new global support function will contribute to the modernization and transformation of the organization, working closely with GBUs in a One Sanofi mindset on the Long-Term Industrial Capacity Plan (LTIP) to secure both our current brands’ portfolio and future launches. It will also optimize our One Sanofi Industrial Network, enabling us to anticipate better our needs and leverage simplification, standardization of our processes, and digitization.

To support this ambition, the newly created Industrial Manufacturing Network team needs strong capability in Capacity Planning and Capacity Modeling as well as strong capability as Business Process Owner to design and implement the necessary processes on Network Capacity Planning for Drug Substances (DS), Drug Products (DP), and Finished Products (FP) across the different GBUs.

This role is critical to accelerating our transformation journey and delivering the Performance trajectory, which will enable the supply and affordability of our medicines and vaccines to all our patients.

The role will work in close collaboration with M&S functions (incl. GBUs, Strategy, Launches & OpEx Team, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance, External Manufacturing, MSAT) as well as Commercial and R&D, and will interact directly with M&S GBU’s LT and Site’s LT.

As Business Process Owner, close collaboration with the Network Capacity Planner Leads, Digital Support Leads, and Strategic Demand BPO within the Industrial Network Capacity Planning team will be critical as well.

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:

Capacity Planning and Modeling for Specialty Care

Strategic Demand Plan 

• Manages strategic demand plan (commercial and non-commercial) for a portfolio of brands and launches (time horizon 3+ years) 

• Partners with Commercial/IFLs, GBU and Supply Chain on annual Strat Plan to understand and consolidate strategic demand plan and assumptions, including seamless integration of the data between the IBP and the Strategic Horizon

• Collaborates with Commercial and Global Supply Chain on commercial demand updates and / or new scenario for assigned product portfolio, ensuring demand and capacity plans are updated and communicated to impacted teams (eg. Product Teams) 

Capacity Modeling 

• Lead capacity modeling and scenario planning exercises to enable strategic and operational decision making for all platforms current and future portfolio and optimize network facilities long term allocations. Contribute to the financial impact assessment.

• Provides recommendations for network capacity balancing in the mid to long-term

• Provides recommendations of shift patterns, OEE improvement, strategic inventories, investments or any other industrial need to optimize network capacity

• Establish the long-range capacity and resource utilization plan recommendations, working closely with sites and cluster heads

• Focal point for all questions and changes related to Long-Term Capacity modeling.

Industrial Network Strategy 

• Scope: End-to-end DS/DP/device/packaging & development /launch /commercial /LCM 

• Provides supply plan scenario input to Strategic capacity decisions, through the operational and long-range plan horizons 

• Maintains Industrial Network Long Term Industrial Capacity Plans together with GBU StratPlan Leaders, GBU Network Strategy SPOC & GBU IFLs 

• Together with the Techno Platform Strategy Owners (Global or GBU) contributes to investment decision recommendations. 

• Supports the elaboration and alignment with the various functions and get endorsed the long term (3-10 years) Industrial Network strategy for the products across platforms.

Capacity Planning Business Process Owner

Capacity Planning Process Design 

• Lead the design of all processes and ways of working related to Network Capacity Planning mid to long-term (time horizon 3+ years) for DS, DP, and FP

• Define the relevant governance to support the successful completion of the processes

• Design the relevant KPIs for each process and analytics needed (e.g. process efficiency improvements, alignment across stakeholders, change management success, Data quality improvements, system adoption rates, etc..).

• Capacity data ownership: define and own the capacity data requirements and be part of the data governance model (drive data quality in alignment with all stakeholders)

• Define system(s) requirements with associated data and rules

• Ensure alignment of the LTIP digital solution with the Network Capacity Planning processes

• Integration across Planning horizons: ensure the smooth integration of capacity data between the long-term planning horizon and the tactical horizon (e.g., IBP).

• Responsible for the documentation related to Network Capacity Planning processes and ways of working (incl. Playbook)

• Responsible for the periodic communication (e.g. specific network and global platform capacity overviews).

Process Implementation and Continuous Improvement

• Drive the implementation of a core model based on the standardization of the Network Capacity Planning processes.

• Ensure process execution is harmonized and aligned across the organization. Monitor E2E process KPIs through associated reporting. Partner with stakeholders and senior management to identify processes, system, performance indicators, or data concerns and define mitigation actions

• Responsible for innovation and continuous improvement of process performance and ways of working related to Network Capacity

• Location: Cambridge, US

About You

Basic Qualifications

• MSc/PhD level education in Process Engineering, Biotechnology, Biochemistry or Biology OR a BS with similar experience in Biologics Manufacturing / Process Development / Supply Chain / Business in biopharmaceutical industry and project management.

• Broad experience with biomolecular pharmaceutical entities (e.g. Monoclonal Antibodies or Antibody-Derivatives, Gene Therapy, Peptides, Fusion-Proteins, Vaccines) and Sterile Filling

• 10+ years of experience in Business Operations (i.e. Supply Chain) with a deep understanding of the pharmaceutical environment

• 3+ years of experience in Business Process Excellence

• Proven leadership and management skills in matrix environments

• Track record of change management and improvements

• Digital experience and familiarity with planning tools and systems (fast learner of new tools)

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong Project Management and Communication skills

• Pragmatic, efficient, innovative

• Strives for continuous improvement; “can do differently” attitude

• Contributes to an environment of strong team spirit and transparency

• Ability to engage others and to influence at all levels and across functions

• Ability to drive alignment within groups with different perspectives, cultures, technical competencies, and organizational levels

• Ability to prioritize and facilitate decision-making

• Active and visible change agent, promoting experimentation and learning, flexible and open mindset to new opportunities

• Takes accountability for actions, drives results

• Superior problem-solving skills; ability to anticipate issues and propose solutions

• Passion for collaboration and customer service mentality

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.

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