Global head of m&s procurement – vaccines

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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 Global Head of M&S Procurement – Vaccines, within our Global Procurement M&S Team, will be to co-create our company sourcing strategies, embed them into the ways of working and the financials of the GBU.

Throughout a consent engagement of executive stakeholder, this position will be at the forefront of the company and GBU strategy, financials, and its manufacturing performances.

This position is managing a large global team organized by business clusters and anchored on our manufacturing sites. This position is also representing the Vaccines GBU within the Procurement M&S Leadership team as well as the procurement function with the M&S Vaccines Leadership team.

You must be a broadly skilled and strategically sound leader with a high level of intelligence, business acumen, and executive presence, as well as a penchant for innovation and a clear sense of progressive strategic sourcing practices. While demonstrating strong leadership skills and a transformative mindset, the leader in this role must have a pragmatic execution approach and a track record of impacting and contributing to a world-class procurement organization within a large company.

This associate will engage at the executive level across Vaccines shaping the global strategy by influencing the R&D, commercial and manufacturing roadmap driving commercial expertise with a focus on commercial excellence, best practices, and driving operational efficiency with Sanofi’s most critical partners.

Main responsibilities:

Strategy

* Co-create, deploy, and execute the sourcing strategy within the GBU and ensure successful implementation of structural procurement programs to create savings opportunities, deploy the GBU sustainability agenda notably on Scope 3 and drive the continuous improvement agenda with various key M&S functions.
* Ensure that GBU commercial strategy is supported by best-in-class commercial execution strategy to operate at best-in-market margins/costs while making our medicines accessible to all of Sanofi patients.
* Contribute significantly to the business as the organization is going through a phase of change and transformation.

Operations

* Responsible for meeting overall Procurement KPIs at GBU level.
* Collaborate with various Global and GBU functions to identify and deliver Cost, sustainability, supply resilience, and operational improvement projects.
* Deploy and maintain Procurement tools on sites.
* Contribute actively to Budget and Long-Range-Plan cycles providing the strategic alignment and link to operational projects and targets.
* Manage risk and compliance across the GBU.
* Ensure local engagement of Global suppliers.
* Ensure that Vaccines commercial strategy is supported by best-in-class commercial execution strategy ensuring we operate at best-in-market margins/costs while ensuring we make our medicines accessible to all of Sanofi patients by ensuring we are operating at optimal efficiency to ensure we have best-in-class partners driving the best quality, supply, and market-competitive cost.

Business Collaboration & Partnering

* Build relationships within the organization to efficiently drive changes within the Sanofi business & GBU.
* Be the procurement lead across the GBU as well as representing the GBU across the market and supply base.

People Management

* Manage a global team of Procurement Cluster Heads who lead the Procurement Site organization.
* Build organizational capability through skill development, coaching, and training.
* Ensure latest knowledge related to reporting, analytics, spend system implementation, compliance, quality, knowledge management, etc.
About you

The successful candidate will have in-depth knowledge and experiences in the following areas:

* 10 to 15 years of professional experience which ideally includes experiences in or exposure to the pharma, vaccines, or consumer healthcare sector.
* Solid understanding of both Procurement and Operations; a combination of functional experiences in both Manufacturing and SCM as well as Procurement would be ideal.
* Exceptional business acumen and strong interpersonal, influencing, and relationship-building skills. Master negotiator.
* Leadership Competencies: proven change agent and consensus builder with strong communication and presentation skills (ability to “story tell” complex initiatives to generate buy-in), results orientation, can build a high performing team, creates a motivating work environment, makes team members feel valued.
* Diversity mindset: Ability to manage complexity in a matrix organization.
* Combines functional depth with dynamic, cross-functional interaction and highly effective communication skills.
* Proven multi-year track record of managing and delivering against complex cross-functional programs.
* Works across a multitude of functions and regions to deliver a common goal, balances own interests with others.
* Strong financial acumen allowing him/her to naturally tie Operations performance to the bottom line.
* Self-starter: can identify the issues and challenges and quickly identify, frame, and execute against opportunities.
* Comprehensive knowledge and experience of category management/strategic sourcing processes, tools, and techniques.
* Experience in implementing Procurement systems (SAP, Ariba, etc.) including design & deployment is a benefit.
Why choose us?
* Be part of a high performing team at the forefront of the company strategy.
* Interact daily with our Senior Executive team.
* Manage a large delivery team anchored within our strategic manufacturing sites.
* This position can structurally influence the future of the company.
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.

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

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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, color, 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!

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