Head of Global Supply Chain, Strategy & Excellence - Global Launch Center

• Hiring Manager: Head of Global Supply Chain

• Business Unit: Manufacturing & Supply (Global Supply Chain)

• Location: Zug, Switzerland

• Legal Entity: Sanofi International AG

About Sanofi

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

About the job

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.

As Head of Global Supply Chain, Strategy & Excellence, you will drive strategy and excellence through standardisation, simplification, innovation and digitalization, redesigning work, enabling people, and providing expertise. You will be a member of the Global Supply Chain Leadership Team, reporting to the Head of Global Supply Chain.

Main Responsibilities

• Leading global strategy for Global Supply Chain (GSC), including multi-year strategic planning, GSC annual priorities in line with the Head of GSC’s guidance and close collaboration with the GSC leadership team.

• Accountable for leading the Global Supply Chain Strategy and Excellence Team (~100 employees), with focus on Employee Engagement, Talent Management, Succession Planning, Leadership Development and Driving High Performance / Outcomes.

• Developing capabilities, processes and standards from design into implementation, monitoring and adherence assurance, bringing an outside in perspective and benchmarking.

• Implementation of global change programmes in line with Manufacturing & Supply and company strategy

Leading the Global Supply Chain Strategy and Excellence organization by leveraging the following functions within the GSC Strategy & Excellence:

• Change Management /PMO: Oversees GSC change programmes (UnleaSC, for example) ensuring rollout as defined by the strategic transformation plan.

• Supply Chain Planning Excellence: Ensure best in class process design, evolution, roll-out, audit and adherence in the areas of IBP, demand and supply planning. Provide E2E visibility from market to suppliers.

• Customer Fulfillment Excellence: Ensure best in class process design, evolution, roll-out, audit and adherence in the areas of sustainable network/logistics and customer care.

• Global Supply Chain Analytics: Build and deliver the data and analytics strategy, deploy innovation including Agentic AI and new technologies at scale.

• SMS2.0 Flow & Supply Ecosystem: Ensure rollout and implementation of Flow and Supply ecosystem as per agreed multi-year roadmap to engrave SC standards into the manufacturing sites DNA to achieve next level process excellence and business outcomes.

• Projects & Business Excellence: Manage the project portfolio management process for Global Supply Chain. Drive successful rollout of key global transformational projects. Ensure aligned implementation of global projects and leverage best practices sharing. Drive the implementation of Digital Tools to enable E2E Visibility, Collaboration, and Innovation.

Dimension & Scope

Global role leading Strategy & Excellence for Global Supply Chain, working across all areas of Supply Chain: Market Supply Chains, Supply Planning, Logistics, GBU Supply Chains and Transformation. Leads team of ~100 with 8 direct reports leading on topics including: Change Management & Communications, Supply chain Planning Excellence, Customer Fulfilment Excellence, Global Supply Chain Analytics, SMS2.0 Flow & Supply Ecosystem and Projects & Business Excellence.

Level of complexity

Leads a team of ~100 under Strategy and Excellence who provide leadership across a range of topics to develop and improve the quality of Supply Chain practices / processes / technology at Sanofi. In addition, the role holder liaises with Leadership Team colleagues in Global Supply Chain to ensure effective collaboration with Global Business Units, Global Supply Planning, Logistics and Market Supply Chains.

Level of innovativeness

• The Manufacturing & Supply themes of Standardization, Simplification and Digitalization are critical in this role, as we seek for Common Standard and to maximize the deployment of new Technology in Global Supply Chain. 

• In addition, the role holder will play a key role in the review, design and transfer of work to our Hubs under M&S Services. 

About you

Skills/ Experience/ Expertise/Education /Language:

• Seasoned and pragmatic Supply Chain leader, with a strong background in leading strategic or operational function/s at regional or global level in Supply Chain

• In-depth understanding of end-to-end Supply Chain is a prerequisite

• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to drive Transformation and Innovation and to influence stakeholders

• Ability to engage and collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and deliver short, medium- and long-term strategies

• Ability to translate operational vision into strategy, excellence and performance

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate & inspire at all levels (including ExCom-level) across the matrix structure

• High levels of emotional intelligence and business integrity

• Demonstrated role model for behaviours consistent with the company values

• Pharmaceutical / biotechnology experience and consulting background are considered an asset

Join Sanofi’s New Launch Excellence Center in Switzerland – Where Innovation Meets Impact

Sanofi International AG, based in Switzerland, is establishing a new transformational global commercialization center— at the cornerstone of Sanofi "Launch Powerhouse" strategy.  We are building a new world-class, centralized launch engine designed to orchestrate end-to-end commercialization for breakthrough medicines and vaccines across our Immunology and Specialty Care portfolios, that will reinforce and strengthen Sanofi’s existing launch expertise and network.

This is not a traditional pharmaceutical role. You will be part of a new pioneering, entrepreneurial entity with real decision-making authority over global launch strategies, pricing corridors, market access, lifecycle management, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial execution. Working alongside a diverse, cross-functional team of approximately 150 dedicated professionals co-located in Switzerland, you will drive standardized, data-driven, AI-powered launch excellence at unprecedented scale.

Why co-location matters: Success in this role requires seamless, daily collaboration across medical affairs, commercial strategy, regulatory, manufacturing & supply, market access, and digital teams. By working together in one location, we eliminate silos, accelerate decision-making, foster innovation through continuous coordination, and create the agility needed to transform patient access worldwide. This is where strategy meets execution—where your work directly impacts millions of patients awaiting our next generation of therapies.