Senior Demand Lead (GenMed)

About the job

As Senior Demand Lead (GenMed) within our General Medicines Supply Chain team, you'll be the focal point for Integrated Business Planning across key franchises — aligning stakeholders, driving forecast accuracy, and ensuring patients always have access to the medicines they need. Ready to get started?

Join the team transforming how healthcare is delivered for chronic and specialty conditions worldwide. In General Medicines, you'll help drive meaningful outcomes in diabetes, transplant, and immunology — with the scale and urgency patients deserve.

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.

Main responsibilities

• Lead the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process for selected franchises, coordinating stakeholders across demand, supply, finance, regulatory, and quality to align on one shared business plan.

• Partner with Demand Planners and Business Units to ensure accurate, up-to-date forecasts that reflect real market needs, constraints, and opportunities.

• Oversee product portfolio changes — including launches, divestments, and sourcing changes — and ensure planning tools and master data remain accurate and current.

• Drive performance by monitoring key supply chain metrics (service levels, forecast accuracy, inventory, and write-offs), identifying gaps, and leading action plans to close them.

• Orchestrate the Management Business Review, including risk and opportunity tracking, minutes, and follow-up actions to prevent shortages, returns, and write-offs.

• Act as the key point of contact for Global Product Leaders and GBU Supply Chain, representing market needs in global product reviews and ensuring seamless two-way communication.

• Lead accountability for new product launches and network changes, ensuring flawless, on-time implementation without supply disruption.

About you

• Experience: 10+ years in Supply Chain, including Demand Planning required, within the pharmaceutical industry

• Technical skills: Proficiency in planning systems (SAP and/or Kinaxis preferred); strong analytical and scenario planning capabilities

• Soft skills: Excellent communication and negotiation skills; ability to influence and align cross-functional stakeholders without direct authority; strong problem-solving mindset

• Education: Bachelor's degree (Supply Chain, Business, or related field preferred)

• Languages: Native-level Japanese and strong business-level English, both required

Why choose us?

• Help shape the future of care for chronic and complex conditions — our medicines reach more than 100 million people each year, and your work will directly support that impact.

• Be part of a simpler, digital- and AI-powered business that's rethinking how supply chains work, with tools and platforms at the cutting edge of the industry.

• Turn bold ideas into breakthrough launches, with multiple new therapies planned through 2030 and beyond — and your role at the heart of making them happen.

• Stretch your career in a true development environment, with opportunities across functions, regions, and the full product lifecycle.

• Take on a high-visibility, cross-functional leadership role where you'll collaborate with global teams and directly influence business outcomes.

• Enjoy a well-rounded rewards package that supports your success — with top-tier healthcare, flexible working, and 14 weeks of gender-neutral parental leave.

PursueProgress. DiscoverExtraordinary.

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what's never-been-done-before. You'll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people's lives? Let's Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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