Performance Tracking, External Benchmarks & Continuous Improvement Manager

• Location: Barcelona - Spain
• Grade: 4.1
• Hiring Manager: Joan Subirana
• Hybrid
• Full time

About the job

At Sanofi we are chasing the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We at Global Supply Chain Strategy & Excellence support this ambition by driving strategy and excellence through innovation and digitalization, redesigning work, enabling people, and providing expertise.

At Supply Chain Business Analytics Center of Excellence, we are on a mission to ensure everyone can harness the power of data in every decision. Our ambition is to transform and disrupt the SC practice to make it data-driven and digitally enabled to simplify, accelerate and improve the impact of the decision making processes steering for best-in-class SC performance.

We believe in empowering the business with execution visibility, advanced analytics and with interactive data visualizations from multiple data sources.

Our scope includes all Supply chain processes: Customer Care, Logistics (Warehousing, Distribution and transportation), Supply chain planning (Distribution requirements planning, Demand planning, Integrated Business Planning, Inventory and Supply Planning) and Production/Scheduling Planning, across all Plants, Regions and Markets and for all Business units (GBUs).

You will contribute to empower the life of our patients worldwide by extracting meaning from data and providing tangible and actionable outcomes using the latest available technics and technologies (AI/ML/GenAI).

Join us in this adventure!

Main responsibilities:

• Focal point for Global SC Reporting & Performance and responsible to run the monthly performance cycle - High exposure to Senior management (Global SC & M&S leadership team, Global M&S and SC Strategy and Excellence leadership)
• Lead the design and coordinate deployment team of the Global SC Executive Dashboard in line with GSC 2023 Compelling Business needs and priorities
• Perform adhoc analysis to support decision making of senior management in global SC and M&S
• Manage External benchmarking, business performance diagnosis and coordination of performance improvement initiatives
• Build, implement and keep up to date the internal policies, operating procedures & associated compliance:
  • Lead the definition and formalization of team governance, operating procedures and ways of working to maintain and optimize service level
  • Ensure organization alignment, process adoption and learning path set up if needed
  • Conduct regulatory monitoring and ensure compliance to our standards, requirements and core operating model (Self-Assessment)
  • Anticipate, actively coordinate and contribute on activities linked to audits/inspections when applicable.
• Improve continuously the operational performance of SC Analytics organization processes:
  • Ensure to build partnerships with all our stakeholders to set up the best win-win collaboration
  • Detect process improvement area promoting and driving culture of feedbacks
  • Conduct risk assessment to identify gaps and make recommendations on actions plan
  • Drive and support DAI and R&R definition and application.
• Lead communication (internal and external, through social media) and change management activities of Global Supply Chain Business Analytics team
• Responsible to coordinate external partnerships (Universities mainly, but also other Sanofi functions)
• Leads and coordinates the overall animation of the community of practice for Analytics.
• Measures Global Supply Chain Analytics performance (value delivered, integration to business processes of solutions delivered, adoption)
• Strive for standardization, simplification & digitization.
• Ensure that data is managed/analysed in compliance with applicable quality, regulatory (Data Privacy, GxP, SOX, etc.) and cybersecurity requirements

About you

• Experience:
  • +8/10 years of experience in Supply chain
  • Strong background in Supply Chain Management AI, Digital, Data & Analytics.
  • Significant experience of SAP Order to cash and Customer Fulfilment or SC Planning processes.
  • Project Management skills are a plus

• Soft skills:
  • Ability to engage and collaborate with external partners to develop and deliver short, medium- and long-term projects; demonstrated ability to collaborate & influence. High level of emotional intelligence and business integrity;
• Technical skills:
  • Advanced software development skills in at least two of the standard data science languages (such as Python, R, Scala, C++, Julia), and familiarity & flexibility with database systems (e.g. SQL, NoSQL, graph,..).
  • Comfortable working in cloud high-performance environments (e.g. Snowflake, AWS, GCP, Apache Spark).
  • Advanced skills in PBI and QS and other data visualization tools

• Education:
  • Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Engineering or similar.
  • APICS certification is an asset.
• Languages: Fluent in English, and fluency in Spanish considered an asset.

Manufacturing & Supply - Leadership Skills

• Enterprise Leaders: Are able to have the E2E vision of the business, prioritizing the common interest for the benefit of Sanofi and the patients. Are able to connect the dots for their teams and keep them engaged with the vision.
• Transformation Leader: Acts as change management and culture role model to foster employee's engagement and build a psychologically safe and collaborative workplace.
• Decision Maker: Takes timely and data-based decisions in a fast moving and complex environment to drive performance and progress. Promotes an environment where decisions are taken at the right level.
• Performance Champion: Embrace digital innovation,AI, GenAI to democratize data and drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance efficiency, quality, safety, and cost effectiveness.
• Business Ally: Understand business landscape Industry & business/client groups knowledge to translate the challenges & bring added value. Stay current with global external trends and integrate insights into strategies achieving sustainable competitive advantage.
• People Developer: Unleashes the potential of each one and prepares the leaders of the future. Takes bold decisions to ensure the right talents are at the right place.

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.
• Contribute to a company that is not only a leader in healthcare but also a pioneer in digital transformation, shaping the future of global health.
• Work on Global programs in a truly International and multi-cultural environment.
• Work with highly qualified teams using state-of-the-art technologies to shape the future of Sanofi.

Pursue progress, discover extraordinary

Better is out there. Better medications, better outcomes, better science. But progress doesn't happen without people - people from different backgrounds, in different locations, doing different roles, all united by one thing: a desire to make miracles happen. So, let's be those people.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

Watch our ALL IN video and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com!

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