**Job title** : _Team Lead, Supply Chain for External Manufacturing Management_ + _Hiring Manager: Head of M&S Services Hyderabad_ + _Location: Hyderabad_ · _% of travel expected_ : _As per business need_ · _Job type: Permanent_ **_About the job_** This leadership position drives strategic supply chain operations for external manufacturing network, providing comprehensive oversight of Contract Manufacturing Organizations and business partners while ensuring optimal supply chain performance. The Lead develops and implements supply chain strategies, manages complex stakeholder relationships, and drives continuous improvement initiatives to deliver products meeting Quality and Regulatory standards while optimizing costs, timelines, and service levels. **Our Team:** Sanofi is a global life sciences company committed to improving access to healthcare and supporting the people we serve throughout the continuum of care. From prevention to treatment, Sanofi transforms scientific innovation into healthcare solutions, in human vaccines, rare diseases, multiple sclerosis, oncology, immunology, infectious diseases, diabetes and cardiovascular solutions. As a company with a global vision of drug development and a highly regarded corporate culture, Sanofi is recognized as one of the best pharmaceutical companies in the world and is pioneering the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) with strong commitment to develop advanced data standards to increase reusability & interoperability and thus accelerate impact on global health. The Global M&S Services acts as a cornerstone to this effort. Our team is responsible for delivering and supporting Global M&S teams by acting as a crucial link between our R&D and Manufacturing facilities, playing a vital role in securing the present portfolio and delivering future launches of high-quality and innovative drugs and vaccines. **Main responsibilities:** + **Strategic Demand & Supply Management:** Lead forecast analysis and production planning strategies, oversee order management from launch to delivery optimizing efficiency and costs, lead complex packaging item change initiatives across CMO and markets, optimize supply chain inventory strategies and record management. + **Strategic Relationship & Crisis Management:** Lead relationship management with CMO driving feasibility improvements and stock optimization strategies, establish crisis management protocols and communication frameworks for restrictive environments, oversee supply chain performance including yield optimization and obsolescence reduction, drive reporting excellence and crisis resolution strategies, lead cross-functional collaboration with Quality and Regulatory departments ensuring impact assessment and mitigation. + **Advanced Toll & Sourcing Management:** Lead API forecast analysis and strategic planning, oversee complex order management and delivery optimization to CMOs, establish API level strategies at CMO sites ensuring production continuity and optimal stock policies, lead reconciliation processes and stock adjustment protocols between Sanofi and CMO inventories, drive double sourcing strategies and alternative source development initiatives. + **Performance Leadership & Innovation:** Lead monitoring and optimization of group supply indicators (out-of-stock rate, supply alerts, customer service level, inventory level, stock policy), drive cross-functional improvement initiatives and strategic business projects, lead serialization and track & trace implementation strategies, coordinate complex divestment and pruning initiatives. + **Strategic Budget & Business Development:** Lead budget development and volume trend analysis, drive portfolio cost optimization strategies, implement cost-effective supply chain process innovations, ensure compliance with evolving legal requirements and standards, lead cross-departmental collaboration for strategic business growth planning, mentor team members and drive supply chain excellence culture. **_About you_** + **Experience:** 8-10 years recognized experience in supply chain, planning, and demand management with proven leadership track record, and extensive pharmaceutical industry experience preferred + **Soft skills:** Strong leadership and team development capabilities, (direct management) high autonomy and strategic thinking, excellent reactivity and anticipation skills, advanced teamwork and networking abilities, strong negotiation and influencing skills, entrepreneurial initiative, results and performance-driven mindset + **Technical skills:** Expert knowledge of SAP and supply chain systems (Kinaxis), deep pharmaceutical industry expertise, advanced project management in complex environments, supply chain strategy and optimization, digital transformation capabilities + **Education:** Master’s degree in supply chain, Engineering, Business, or related field, additional leadership or business qualifications preferred + **Languages:** Fluent professional English (written and spoken) _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, disability, or gender identity. Watch our ALL IN video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) ! **_This job post is subject to local legal and social procedures where applicable._** **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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=67s) and check out our Diversity Equity and Inclusion actions at sanofi.com (https://www.sanofi.com/en/our-responsibility/equality-and-inclusiveness) ! Global Terms & Conditions and Data Privacy Statement (https://www.sanofi.com/en/careers/global-terms-and-conditions/) Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions. With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Discover more about us visiting www.sanofi.com or via our movie We are Sanofi (https://youtu.be/96EwNjb1TLo) As an organization, we change the practice of medicine; reinvent the way we work; and enable people to be their best versions in career and life. We are constantly moving and growing, making sure our people grow with us. Our working environment helps us build a dynamic and inclusive workplace operating on trust and respect and allows employees to live the life they want to live. All in for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Sanofi - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkpDBZ-CJKw&t=2s)