External Manufacturing Supply Planning Lead

• Location: Barcelona, Spain

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About the job

As External Manufacturing Supply Planning Lead within our Global Supply Planning team, you'll manage the end-to-end flow across key Contract Manufacturing Organizations (CMOs), ensuring robust supply plans and reliable delivery for patients across 111 markets. Ready to get started?

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. Our new Global Supply Planning organization is a fully integrated team owning the 3-36 months' Supply Planning horizon, providing robust supply plans to internal sites and increasing reliability of IBP-horizon planning for key CMOs. We focus on optimizing our assets across the network to better serve our customers and patients through close cooperation with Sites, local SC and global SC functions.

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.

Main responsibilities:

• Lead the management of key CMO networks, working through EM&S teams to oversee inventory, SKUs, and strategic partnerships

• Drive net demand reviews by aggregating and challenging demands across CMOs/capacity units, ensuring accuracy of total net demand and translating into production volumes

• Ensure reliability of planning parameters by validating key assumptions (capacity constraints, MOQs, binding periods) and adjusting master data based on CMO performance monitoring

• Analyze plans using Kinaxis to identify supply/demand gaps and volume alerts, developing mitigation strategies for business risks

• Build and present comprehensive Site Supply Review materials, aligning with stakeholders on deep dive topics and KPIs for monthly reviews with CDMOs

• Lead monthly handovers with EM&S short-term planners, sharing critical hypotheses and escalation points for key CDMOs

• Drive decision-making in monthly supply reviews by preparing fluid horizon topics and recommendations based on scenarios and financial impact

About you

• Experience: Strong background in Supply Chain Planning, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry, with proven success in building plannings, aligning stakeholders, and driving decision-making. Experience with CDMOs is an advantage.

• Soft skills: Outstanding interpersonal abilities to engage multiple partners within EM&S functions. Change agent mindset to ensure best practice implementation and system adoption. Proactive approach for anticipating and resolving challenges.

• Technical skills: Proficiency with advanced planning systems (Kinaxis preferred) and ERP (SAP). Strong analytical capabilities to analyze data, collect insights, and build creative mitigations. Strategic thinking to develop and drive recommendations.

• Education: Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or similar field. APICS certification is an asset.

• Languages: Fluent English required for working within this global function.

Meeting participation:

• Site Supply Reviews for virtual sites for CDMOs in scope

• Monthly Net Demand Review meetings for assigned perimeter

• Monthly inventory reviews for assigned perimeter

• GBU GSR monthly cycle participation as needed

Why choose us?

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

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

• Transform lives worldwide by ensuring reliable access to life-changing treatments across 111 markets

• Work with advanced planning systems in an organization that invests heavily in digital transformation

• Develop your career through cross-functional opportunities in a diverse, international environment

• Join a high-performing team of 2,000 supply chain professionals dedicated to serving patients and customers

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