Head of Supply Chain, Key Markets - Global Launch Center

• Manager: Head of Market 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.

At Market Supply Chain for Key Markets we are contributing to this vision by building the bridge between Sanofi Manufacturing & Supply sites to ensure we able to supply our customers and patients with our medicines and vaccinations. We are a high performing team of c.230 Supply Chain professionals who are based across 24 markets and always have our patients and customers at the heart of everything we do.

As Head of Supply Chain - Key Markets, you will be accountable for all Supply Chain activities across all Global Business Units across 24 markets. You will ensure first-class business partnership with GBU leaders and General Managers in Key Markets to maximize the contribution of the Market Supply Chain Teams. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities:

• Leading the Market Supply Chain Team, with focus on Employee Engagement, Talent Management, Succession Planning and Leadership Development

• Accountable for setting the strategy and tactical execution of the Market Supply Chain in line with Global Supply Chain strategy and in close collaboration with Global Business Process Owners

• Partner closely with GBU Leaders and Key Market GMs to align objectives, establish clear governance, and drive standardized excellence across Market Supply Chain teams for One Sanofi

• Ensures that SC Design, Planning and Execution deliver Patient, Customer and Business needs

• Scope includes all in market SC activities: Customer Care, Distribution (local management of 3PLs) and Demand Planning (including market IBP process)

• Representation of Key Markets at the Market Supply Chain Leadership Team

• Optimize Supply Chain performance by meeting KPI and budget targets, harmonizing processes and tools across markets, and implementing corrective actions to address country-level gaps.

• Ensure a first in class and diverse team by leveraging people competencies, reinforcing capabilities, developing all supply chain people.

• Drive adoption of Global Supply Chain tools and digital platforms (KINAXIS, ERP, EDI), advance IBP maturity, and embed standardized ways of working across markets.

• Implement key organization changes, transformational programmes and projects.

• Review and optimise route to markets with strong focus on balancing business and product strategy, patient needs and cost to serve.

• Ensure presence and active participation of Sanofi in local and EU trade associations on the topics of Supply Chain

About you: 

Experience

• Strong background in end-to-end supply chain management and people leadership

• Delivering transformation and breakthrough results in an established and complex market environment

• Developing organization capability and talent

• Leading large, geographically dispersed teams

Soft skills

• Demonstrated leadership skills with the ability to drive transformation and innovation

• Ability to engage and collaborate with internal partners to develop and deliver short – medium term strategies with a 0-5 year time horizon

• Demonstrated ability to collaborate & inspire at all levels across a matrix structure up to executive level

• High level of emotional intelligence and business integrity

• Demonstrated role model for behaviours consistent with our company values

Technical skills

• Ability to understand and interpret Supply Chain and Business KPIs and data to orchestrate the strategy making

• Ability to perform annual strategy cycle and tactical execution

• Knowledge of business frameworks

• Rounded presentation and negotiation skills

• Experience in implementing AI/ Digital Solutions are considered an asset

Education:

• Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or similar

• APICS certification is an asset

Languages: Fluent in English, additional languages are considered an asset.

Why choose us?

• Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply

• Help deliver 30+ new product launches by 2030, ensuring patients get treatments faster than ever

• Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation – at speed and scale

• Grow, thrive, and make an impact in a workplace that empowers you to bring your best self every day, with pride

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.