Job title: Demand Planning Team Lead

• Location: Bogotá

About the job

We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as Demand Planning Team Lead within our M&S Services Bogota Hub, is being responsible for leading a regional demand planning team to ensure alignment with the organization’s vision and goals. This role is critical in driving demand planning processes, overseeing daily operations, mentoring team members, and acting as a liaison between the demand planning function, global hub leadership, and key stakeholders. The Team Lead will also ensure compliance with both internal and external regulatory frameworks while fostering continuous process improvements.

We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities:

• Provide direction, oversee daily operations, and ensure alignment of demand planning activities with company objectives.
• Lead, mentor, and coach the demand planning team to ensure professional growth and high performance.
• Facilitate team performance evaluations and encourage continuous improvement and team collaboration.
• Drive improvements in demand planning processes and methodologies, leveraging advanced planning tools and ERP systems (SAP and Kinaxis preferred).
• Ensure accurate use of master data and proper configuration of demand planning parameters in planning systems.
• Conduct performance reviews and oversee root cause analysis for significant demand plan changes and forecast deviations.
• Implement corrective action plans to prevent recurrence of identified issues.
• Oversee team performance based on SLAs/KPIs to ensure efficient and effective operations.
• Ensure alignment with internal and external regulatory frameworks.
• Act as the communication bridge between the demand planning team, global hub leadership, and key stakeholders.
• Partner with stakeholders to integrate local market knowledge and operational requirements into planning processes.
• Prepare and present demand planning reports for senior management

About you

• Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in the supply chain/manufacturing industry. Prior experience in demand planning roles with demonstrated team leadership capabilities, preferably with knowledge of pharmaceutical primary and secondary manufacturing processes.
• Soft and technical skills: Advanced proficiency in demand planning tools and EPS systems (SAP and Kinaxis preferred). Strong skills in mentoring, coaching and team development to facilitate team performance, ability to provide direction, oversee daily operations and ensure alignment of demand planning activities with company goals, driving process and methodology improvements.
• Education: Advanced degree (e.g., Master's or PhD) in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Languages: Advance english level is a MUST.

Why choose us?

• Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
• You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.
• You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.
• Flexible working policies, including up to 50% remote work.
• Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral paid parental leave
• Colombia is one of Sanofi’s key locations for new talents, having a big footprint with the Bogota HUB and its best-in-class operation.
• Mexico and Argentina Play an instrumental part in creating best practice and innovation within our 3 vaccines production plants.

Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

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. You can be one of those people. Chasing change, embracing new ideas and exploring all the opportunities we have to offer. Let’s pursue progress. And let’s 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, or gender identity.

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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.

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