Supply Chain Manager, India

Our Team:

The India Supply Chain team is a department that aims to provide added value to the market. In a market with complex landscape, stringent quality and regulatory requirements, the team aims to contribute to the company's growth in terms of high-quality service and improved BOI, and to be fully committed to Sanofi's growth strategy.

• Turnover 2025: 280m Euro (GEM/Speciality Care 222m Euro/Vaccine:58m Euro)
• Stakeholders: 3 GBUs - GEM/Speciality Care/Vaccines
• Number of SKUs: 138 for GenMed/SPC & Vaccines India

Job Purpose

• Define and drive the Supply Chain strategy to support top and bottom-line growth ambition of Commercial Operations of the markets in scope
• Represent the affiliate as the key Supply Chain stakeholder, both internally and externally to the company, acting as the primary contact for that country in the regional and global Supply Chain organization
• Lead the Supply Chain department transformation: Continuously review and recommend changes in the Supply Chain procedures and working practices; Contribute to the company’s cost optimization through project generation and implementation; Build a truly customer-centric organization
• Optimize cross-functional support needs in the local organization, ensuring effective communication between direct reports and with other teams serviced or impacted by the Supply Chain function, in particular Quality Operations, Sales & Marketing, Regulatory Affairs and Finance
• Lead and direct the Supply Chain team, ensuring that staff are qualified and competent, properly coached, drive team engagement, given the opportunity to develop in the company and continually motivated to handle the demands of their jobs and achieve their objectives
• Ensure a permanent & full compliance to all guidelines, such as Legal, Internal and External Control, GxP and HSE requirements. This includes proactive prevention and in case of gaps timely and transparent actions to rectify gaps.

Key Accountabilities

• Lead, coach and support the Supply Chain team
  • Develop capabilities and potential through individual development programs
  • Focus on team engagement as an enabler for building a winning team that demonstrates our Sanofi Play to Win culture
  • Drive the diversity and inclusion agenda in managerial actions
• Inventory Management
  • Manage, control and optimize local inventory levels
  • Review Inventory holding & take actions for stock optimization to the achieve local / regional KPIs
• Cost Management
  • Define adequate action plans to optimize distribution costs
  • Ensure the control of expenditures and track performance versus approved budget
• Demand Planning and Supply
  • Coordinate a demand plan for importation that will ensure on-time availability of products and to lower potential impact of Out Of Stock
  • Liaise with Sales & Marketing and Finance to ensure an effective rolling-forecast process is in place
  • Coordinate and guide the trans-functional S&OP and IBP process, bringing anticipation/long term visibility & one single set of data
  • Contribute to reduce level of destruction while improving forecast accuracy
  • Support key launches and ensure 100% In Time Launches
  • Ensure local coordination on all Sanofi Group (internal) and third-party (external) sourcing issues
• Customers Focus
  • Knowing who are our customers, not just traditional buyers or prescribers, but all stakeholders and their influencers
  • Lead the Supply Chain customer engagement road map
• Prioritize cross collaboration across departments
  • Marketing / Regulatory /Quality / Health Authorities
    • Collaboration with marketing for demand planning, new launches, promotions
    • Collaboration with Regulatory and Quality on artworks, new packs, etc
    • Ensure reliable information to Health Authorities and Public Affairs when applicable
  • Distributor
    • To manage the Distributor KPIs
    • Provide logistical expertise within the local organization, ensuring complete adherence to local legislation and implementation of Sanofi policies and procedures
  • Finance
    • Provide to finance organization the relevant data (obsolescence risk, sales impact due to Out Of Stock, forecast numbers and gaps identification etc…)
    • Act as a business partner in identifying the risks and opportunities of consolidated forecasts
• Ensure compliance
  • HSE
  • Legal, External audit requirements
  • Internal Control and procedures, Demand to Cash
  • Quality, and GxP
• Health, Safety and Environment
  • Take reasonable care of the health and safety of self and others
  • Undertake duties in accordance with the current Sanofi Policies and Procedures
  • Cooperate with Sanofi management in the provision of a healthy and safe workplace
  • Identify and correct unsafe conditions or behaviors and immediately notify the Manager and HSE of any serious incidents
  • Relevant when market owns the warehousing operations, responsible to drive the annual program and safe operations

Skills/Expertise/Experience:

Education:  

Degree in Business/Logistic/Engineering/Management

Experience & knowledge:

• Minimum 5-7 years operational experience and success in Supply Chain operations (purchasing, materials management, logistics, customer services, S&OP)
• Experience in a multi-national environment in Supply Chain
• Proven ability to support the business and handle organizational and people-management topics

Required Skills:

• Computer literate (Word/Excel/Analytical tools); knowledge / exposure to SAP and PowerBI
• Demonstrates capacity to understand key business issues which impact on Supply Chain activities and the role and impact of Supply Chain on commercial operations
• Soft skills: Effective communication, People Leadership, Strong negotiation and Stakeholder engagement skills
• Technical skills: Analytical, Strategic Thinking, Technology road-map, Process Improvement to drive simplification, Customer & Key Account Engagement, Vendor Management, Knowledge of GDP, Regulatory Requirements and Local Legislation.
• Languages: Fluency in written & spoken English

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