Ext. Man. Supply Planning Lead, Molecules

Job Title: Ext. Man. Supply Planning Lead, Large Molecules

Location: Cambridge, MA or Framingham, MA

About the Job

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and  Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster.

We at Sanofi are chasing the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. In our Supply Planning Team we are contributing to this vision every day by building the bridge between Sanofi Manufacturing & Supply Sites, CDMOs and our Customers and Patients across 111 markets to ensure we supply our customers and patients with our Medicines and Vaccinations. We are a high performing team of c.2000 Supply Chain professionals with Patients and Customers at the heart of everything we do.

The new Global Supply Planning organization is a fully integrated team owning the 3-36 months’ Supply Planning horizon to provide a robust supply plan to internal sites, to increase reliability of IBP-horizon planning for key CMO as well as internal sites to the following nodes and to optimize our assets across the network to better serve our customers. The team is part of a network connecting the dots between demand, supply and logistics by close cooperation with Sites, local SC and global SC functions and focuses on Supply to meet patient and business needs.

Job Purpose:

The EM&S Planning lead manages the E2E flow in a network of key CMO ensuring transparency and reliability on the net demand, supply balance and the supply plan across the network. The accountability and focus of this role is the 3-36 months Supply Planning horizon to identify risks and opportunities in advance and mitigate those in close cooperation with EM&S and the CMO to ensure supply as well as planning and supply data reliability.

Main Responsibilities

• Responsible for the mid-term
  capacity equation, contractual alignment and reliability of MPS
  for complex network of main CDMOs. Balance supply risks and opportunities related to limited capacities at CMO and consider competition on CMO capacities with other companies

• Manage E2E flow in the network for the relevant horizon to ensure alignment across all nodes considering impact on supply and inventory

• Drive net demand review:aggregate the net demand for key CDMOs / capacity unit and challenge relevant SCPP / SCPLs on the net demand of their respective products to ensure the correctness of the total net demand provided to the CDMO. Work closely with EM&S Team for CDMOs not managed by GSP.

• Ensure reliability of planning parameters and hypothesis:clarify and validate assumptions (capacity constraints as per contract, MOQs, binding period…) to ensure accuracy of MPS plan within the planning system (at term, Kinaxis for all).Adjust master data based on
  info provided by EM&S teams
  on CDMO performance monitoring
  (OTIF, PPA, RCT, OOS…)

• Analyze resulting plans generated by Kinaxis to identify D/S gaps
  and volume alerts on mid- and long-term horizon (net demand diverging from contracts, material availability risks on upstream flows).
  Identify business risks
  related to the new plan (OOS risks, idle capacity, inventory risks…) and ensure resolution of mid-term capacity issues in the relevant forums (EM&S SSR for key CDMOs, One EM&S GSR/ GBU Global Supply Review)

• Create supply scenarios and collaborate with different functions (e.g. GSP, GBU SC, virtual site SC, ...) to facilitate decision making

• Contribute to revenue growth by delivering the pipeline. Drive robust and reliable capacity and supply planning and decision taking to ensure timely launches and growth of strategic products

• Prepare and collaborate with Site SC Head
  to build Site Supply Review deck:
  Align on deep dive/ escalation topics for CSR/GSR, KPIs

• Prepare fluid horizon topics and recommendations to be presented to the monthly supply review with guidance
  from the EM&S Supply Planning Head (key decision-making instance at EM&S level) for endorsement by EM&S Leadership Team: valorize elaborated scenario based on input from EM&S schedulers and global finance (e.g., BOI, added value, etc.).

• Support EM&S function to prepare for monthly review with CDMOs
  providing topics…