Integrated Business Planning Lead
Cairo, Egypt Fixed Term Date posted 01/05/2024Job Title: Integrated Business Planning Lead
Locations: Egypt
Job Type: Permanent, Full time
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 Integrated Business Planning Lead within our supply chain team, will be to Manage the Sales & Operations Planning Process
At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we build trusted and loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide. Our ambition is to enable better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To achieve this, we need people who can shape the future of our business and help us on our journey to becoming the best fast-moving consumer healthcare company in and for the world.
Main Responsibilities
- Managing the Sales & Operations Planning Process
- Coordinating the Supply Planning and Inventory Control activities
- Managing Drop and export shipments to Egypt
- Product Launch Coordination
- Coordinating Overprinting & MOH release activities
- Product Master Data Management
- Management of Customs Clearance Process; 3PL agents and activity
- Managing the SOP meetings and recording Forecast Review minutes and actions and ensuring timely forecast update on SC systems
- Coordination with plants and SC Hub for supply planning & shipments organization
- Liaise with Treasury Teams for fx requirement.
- Monitoring and maintaining Egypt’s inventory levels between agreed minimum and maximum levels, reducing the level of stock write offs due to redundancy.
- Assist the BU with planning and ensuring timeous new product launches
- Coordinating the overprinting & MOH release activities with DRA and DC teams
- Customs Clearance Activity and management of forwarding agents
- Liaise with Egypt management and agents for orders production and shipment
- Monthly TM alignment and Sales In realization for Egypt
- Coordinating the flow of Drop Shipments
- Managing the export flow documentation
- Regular maintenance of master data files on all SC tools and resolving interface issues
- Coordinating regulatory variations and implementing mitigating plans to avoid supply shortfalls
- Ensure proper and timeous communication to BU’s regarding product alerts and mitigation plans
- Assist on finalizing all Chloe project aspects, with cross functional teams to ensure successful operation on Chloe Day
- Ad hoc projects & Tasks
Key working relationships:
- Sales & Marketing Teams
- Finance BP
- Global Plants and DCs
- COE Team in Barcelona
- 3rd Party Logistics Providers
- Egypt Management & Agents
About you
Qualifications:
- Preferably, bachelor’s degree in accounting or business administration
- 3 years’ experience in Demand and Inventory Management in the Pharmaceutical / FMCG Sector
- Must be able to operate transversely and have good communication skills.
Knowledge:
- Excellent computer skills (MS office, Outlook & SAP)
- Key aspects of the pharma industry
- Distribution procedures
- Customer groups within Pharmaceutical Industry
- Distribution channels
- Understanding of Single Exit Pricing
Skills
- Analytical thinking skills
- Good communication skills
- Emotional intelligence
- Learning capability
- Problem solving skills
- People skills
- Business communication
- Good telephone manner
Competencies:
- Sets ambitious objectives while knowing how to take risks
- Develops skills, trains and enables learning on the job
- Acknowledges the right to experiment and make mistakes
- Develops innovative solutions and ways of doing things
- Makes decisions & drives necessary changes for performance
- Knows how to deal with conflicts
- Respects & exhibits the Sanofi values
- Meticulous and attention to detail.
- Tenacity and perseverance.
- Customer service attitude.
- Persuasiveness & Task oriented
Critical Play to Win Behaviors:
- Stretch to go beyond the level we have operated at up until now.
- Take action instead of waiting to be told what to do.
- Act in the interest of our patients and customers.
- Put the interests of the organization ahead of my own or those of our team.
Why Choosing us?
- Bring the miracles of science to life alongside a supportive, future-focused team.
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- Enjoy a thoughtful, well-crafted rewards package that recognizes your contribution and amplifies your impact.
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, disability, or gender identity.
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