Job Title: Global Supply Chain Product Planner

Location: Cambridge, MA

About the Job

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?

Our team is responsible for the End-to-End product supply for products within the Specialty Care Business Unit of Sanofi. Reporting into the Manufacturing and Supply organization, we support worldwide internal and external manufacturing for a portfolio of products representing € 18B in revenue and growing.

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

• 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.
  

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

• 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)
  

• 5+ years in manufacturing or supply in the biopharmaceutical industry, or equivalent
  
• 4+ years' experience conducting data-driven analysis and communication findings to management.
  

• Advanced understanding and experience with the Integrated Business Planning process.
  
• 3+ years of demand forecast or supply management experience.
  
• demand forecast and supply management experience.
  
• 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
  

• 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.