Global Supply Chain Therapeutic Area Head - Global Launch Center

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Job title: Global Supply Chain Therapeutic Area Head - Global Launch Center
* Manager: Head of Global Supply Chain - Specialty Care
* Business Unit: M&S
* 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. As a global manufacturing industry, we're the bridge between the science that happens in our research laboratories and the communities and patients we serve.

The Global Supply Chain Therapeutic Area (TA) Head leads and delivers the end-to-end supply chain strategy for their designated TA (Rare Blood Disorders) - driving operational excellence, overseeing E2E product supply, and shaping long-term strategic plans in close partnership with the Global Business Unit (Franchise & IPL).

Main responsibilities:

Establishing Therapeutic Area Supply Chain strategy for a group of products/assets in Rare Blood Disorders (RBD):
* Ensuring the TA supply chain team has a clear set of strategic principles based on Product and Brand and its lifecycle, which is aligned with global supply chain ambition
* Designing and implementing supply chain strategies, including both product strategies as well as collaboration on network strategies
* Hold accountability of inventory levels of his/her Therapeutic Area and endorse relevant stock policies depending on product flows and process risk management in close alignment with his/her product leader.
* Responsible for E2E value stream on 0-3/4 years horizon for his / her products of TA incl. Product-Lifecycle Management (new launches, regulatory changes, transfers, post approval submission) 
* Acting as senior leader to drive execution of key product strategies across sites and functions in collaboration with Global Supply Planning 

Supporting commercial growth for new and established products 
* Act as a primary contact of Supply Chain to the Head of Global Franchise  
* Supporting commercial operations with a focus on new launches and launch excellence as well as established products with the objective to ensure one plan for all
* Represents supply chain in management committees, working in close partnership with the commercial franchise head and Industrial Franchise leader 

Drive and oversee E2E Therapeutic Area Supply Chain performance and continuous improvement initiatives   
* Set product supply policies across the network within global guidance 
* Work collaboratively within the value stream, with Global Franchise teams, Manufacturing & Supply, Sourcing committees as well as other Global organizations when/where appropriate
* Responsible for the SC partnership with the alliance partner to oversee supply chain deliverables and support for SC communications and decision making as part of the joint governance processes
 
Build/maintain a first-in-class team

* Identify required resources and expertise, implement effective team structures, and establish processes and communications to deliver commitments while fostering a culture of safety, quality, and continuous improvement.
* Build a pool of expertise within the team, establishing harmonized ways of working across Product Leaders and Product Planners.

About you

Experience:
* Experience in developing strategies and budgeting long-range planning 
* Solid knowledge of IBP process   
* Experience with performance and capability in enabling and driving change 
* Advanced knowledge of Demand Forecast and Supply Management 
* Experience modelling scenarios with multiple variables incorporating identification of key drivers, risks, financials, and sensitivity analysis. 
* Understanding of business requirements, especially in key markets
* Understanding of manufacturing processes and operations 
* Experience of managing Financials and budgeting 
* Degree in Engineering, Business Administration or Supply Chain 
* Successful Leadership experience in complex matrix environments across multiple teams and geographies 
* Experience in coaching, motivating, and developing people. 

Soft and technical skills:
* Enterprise Leader with an E2E vision of the business, prioritizing the common interest for the benefit of Sanofi and the patients
* Strategic thinking and a disruptive approach to challenge the status quo and consider long-term implications
* Leadership skills to partner with multiple internal stakeholders and capacity to work transversally
* M&S Leaders Decision Support: Provides timely and data-based decision-making scenarios in a fast-moving and complex environment to drive performance and progress

Languages: Fluent English

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.

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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, ability or gender identity.

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