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Job title:Head of M&S Specialty Care Network Strategy– Global Launch Center

• Manager: Head of Industrial Network Management

• Business Unit: M&S

• Location: Zug, Switzerland

• Legal Entity: Sanofi International AG

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.

About the job

Join a global network that powers how Sanofi delivers — seamlessly, purposefully, and at scale. In Manufacturing & Supply, you’ll help reimagine how life-changing treatments reach people everywhere, faster. As a global manufacturing industry, we’re the bridge between the science that happens in our research laboratories and the communities and patients we serve.

As Head of M&S Specialty Care Network Strategy within our Global Industrial Network Management Team, you will be critical in leading sourcing, network capacity, risk, and supply resilience activities, processes, and governance to support the Global Business Unit’s ambitions with a OneSanofi Manufacturing Network Mindset. Ready to get started?

Main responsibilities:

In this GBU-facing role you will lead the assessment of Specialty Care Network Strategy and roadmaps for relevant GBU Strategic Network topics and a strategic cross-GBU Techno Platform, ensuring its future-ready to deliver long-term supply efficiently and reliably.  

GBU Sourcing & Network Strategy

• Lead the GBU Sourcing Process across all clusters and assets, orchestrating Sourcing Committee evaluations and securing leadership endorsement
• Drive cross-functional business case assessments for strategic sourcing decisions, developing well-reasoned recommendations aligned with GBU Strategic Guiding Principles
• Ensure all sourcing cases include comprehensive 10-year projections covering market demand, production, network supply, and product allocation
• Identify and address mid- to long-term network portfolio topics (capacity, risk, resilience, regionalization) through appropriate governance
• Provide an end-to-end view across sourcing cases and tech platforms, from raw materials to finished goods, incorporating regulatory, GMP, and geopolitical considerations

Strategic Demand Planning & Network Capacity

• Own the long-range demand plan (2–10 year horizon) for the GBU brand portfolio, including assumptions and probability of success
• Lead GBU capacity mapping and scenario planning to support strategic decision-making and establish long-range capacity utilization plans
• Prepare strategic network capacity scenarios for M&S leadership, integrating sourcing, risk, resilience, and business development perspectives

Risk, Resilience & Business Continuity

• Own the GBU risk matrix and resilience roadmap, including dual sourcing, monosourcing exit strategies, and strategic inventory planning
• Lead annual portfolio risk assessments for top products, new launches, and supply continuity programs
• Evaluate and mitigate emerging risks (e.g., nitrosamines, ICH M7) for critical and lifesaving products in collaboration with MSAT and support functions

Global Techno Platform Leadership

• Lead the end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and governance for a global cross-GBU techno platform, covering sourcing, capacity, risk, and asset lifecycle
• Drive investment decisions in collaboration with engineering, quality, and project portfolio management
• Build and lead a cross-functional community of practice to standardize, harmonize, and modernize platform operations
• Lead product allocation decisions for pipeline and lifecycle management projects through rigorous technical and business analysis

Decision scope

About you

Experience:

• Extensive experience in the Biotech & Pharmaceutical Industry, ideally supporting E2E organizations and decision-making in Manufacturing & Supply

• Large operations and technological background in an extensive range of fields (including end-to-end process technology, chemistry, drug product manufacturing solids & injectables, supply chain, quality and regulatory environments, end-to-end new product development processes from clinical phases to commercial production

• Demonstrated experience in assessing product and manufacturing risk and potentially developing and leading resilience programs

• Ability to understand and assess product and network strategies to secure long term supply in collaboration with relevant Sanofi Functions

• Data Analysis, Budgeting and Business Case Development with ability to simplify key elements, quantify options at the appropriate level for decision-making

Soft and technical skills:

• Enterprise Leader with an E2E vision of the business, prioritizing the common interest for the benefit of Sanofi and the patients

• Strategic thinking and a disruptive approach to challenge the statusquo and consider long-term implications

• Leadership skills to partner with multiple internal stakeholders and capacity to work transversally 

• M&S Leaders Decision Support: Provides timely and data-based decision-making scenarios in a fast-moving and complex environment to drive performance and progress

Languages: Fluent English

Why choose us?

• Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply
• Help deliver 30+ new product launches by 2030, ensuring patients get treatments faster than ever
• Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation – at speed and scale
• Grow, thrive, and make an impact in a workplace that empowers you to bring your best self every day, with pride

Join Sanofi’s New Launch Excellence Center in Switzerland – Where Innovation Meets Impact

Sanofi International AG, based in Switzerland, is establishing a new transformational global commercialization center— at the cornerstone of Sanofi "Launch Powerhouse" strategy.  We are building a new world-class, centralized launch engine designed to orchestrate end-to-end commercialization for breakthrough medicines and vaccines across our Immunology and Specialty Care portfolios, that will reinforce and strengthen Sanofi’s existing launch expertise and network.

This is not a traditional pharmaceutical role. You will be part of a new pioneering, entrepreneurial entity with real decision-making authority over global launch strategies, pricing corridors, market access, lifecycle management, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial execution. Working alongside a diverse, cross-functional team of approximately 150 dedicated professionals co-located in Switzerland, you will drive standardized, data-driven, AI-powered launch excellence at unprecedented scale.

Why co-location matters: Success in this role requires seamless, daily collaboration across medical affairs, commercial strategy, regulatory, manufacturing & supply, market access, and digital teams. By working together in one location, we eliminate silos, accelerate decision-making, foster innovation through continuous coordination, and create the agility needed to transform patient access worldwide. This is where strategy meets execution—where your work directly impacts millions of patients awaiting our next generation of therapies.

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Pursue Progress. Discover Extraordinary.

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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