Job Title: Regional Performance Lead & Projects
Location: Morristown, NJ/Swiftwater, PA
Hybrid Work Schedule and 10% of travel expected
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.
In collaboration with the Head of North America Market Supply Chain (NAMSC), the role drives the full North America Market Supply organization forward relating to performance across its teams and projects. It is a strategic role that acts as the primary point of connection with global teams, particularly for ad hoc and strategic initiatives. The role leads key cross functional programs that are important and highly visible at senior levels, including preparation for and participation in Global Business Reviews.
A core mandate of this role is to look across all areas of Market Supply—Demand Planning, Regional Logistics, Transportation, Customer Engagement, Customer Fulfillment, Finance & Budget Planning, Compliance, Internal Controls (audit preparedness and adherence), and Strategic Planning & priority setting—and act as the “glue” that builds, connects, and operationalizes KPIs to deliver on our performance commitments. Additionally, this role is also forward looking, connecting dots across transformation initiatives, including North America network design, DSCSA (serialization), NDC related changes, and other advancements requiring strong analytical rigor and strategic thinking.
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.
Main Responsibilities & Accountabilities:
Supply Chain North America Regional Performance Lead & Projects is reporting to the Head of North America Market Supply Chain Head and is responsible for leading and managing the performance of across the different US and Canadian market supply chain activities.
Responsible for setting goals & performance targets, and conducting performance evaluations, and providing improvement opportunities
Accountable for implementing initiatives and strategies to improve performance and efficiency
Helps ensure a high performing business that runs efficiently, compliantly, and under a high level of control. Activities focus on performance KPIs, analytics and reporting, cost control, problem solving, project delivery, and tight collaboration with other functions.
Focus on making processes, people, and performance better by managing complexities and ad‑hoc requests, and freeing the broader team to focus on core supply chain tasks.
Key Accountabilities
Drives and supports monthly performance reviews across all NAMSC functions
Preparation and presentation of monthly performance reviews.
Monitoring and following up of country performance for all SC KPIs (e.g., Service level, OTIF, SPA, MAPE, etc.)
Alerting Region SC Head and Supply Chain GBU Heads in case of deviations or trend changes, enabling to mitigate associated potential risks
Leading initiatives to drive continuous improvement in the regional supply chain
Accountable for implementing processes and strategies to improve performance and efficiency
Analyzing data and metrics to identify trends and opportunities for improvement in the supply chain
Develop & execute action plans across Region, focusing on performance improvements in areas such as Service level improvements, growth enabling and cost reduction
In coordination with team, surveys across GBU’s (e.g., delight survey) to identify customers satisfaction and drive improvement plans
Focus on making processes, people, and performance better by managing complexities and ad‑hoc requests, and freeing the broader team to focus on core supply chain tasks.
Define action plans and follow up to strengthen tools, processes, and team capabilities.
Build custom reports/dashboards to communicate insights and trends; perform root cause analyses.
Develop and implement scripts, macros, and other automation to simplify repetitive tasks.
North America Scope & Strategic Partnering
In collaboration with the Head of Supply Chain, North America, support decision-making, priority setting, tracking and execution.
Support the full North America team by orchestrating resources, resolving cross functional issues, and accelerating outcomes.
Act as the primary liaison with global teams (and relevant regional/central teams) to align strategies, surface NA needs, and drive execution for ad hoc and strategic projects.
When needed, represent/stand in for NA leadership in global forums, steering committees, and governance reviews.
Cross Functional Program Leadership (Senior Level Visibility)
Lead key cross functional projects that are important and visible at senior levels—including preparation for and participation in Global Business Reviews.
Establish and run program governance (charters, milestones, RAID management, routines), stakeholder management, and change management.
Drive end to end impact across Demand Planning, Regional Logistics, Transportation, Customer Engagement, Customer Fulfillment, Finance & Budget Planning, Compliance & Internal Controls, and Strategic Planning.
Foresight & Transformation Agenda (Forward Looking)
Scan and orchestrate the North America transformation roadmap, including future network design, interaction with global teams for control towers, DSCSA/serialization, NDC related changes, and other technology/process advancements.
Conduct scenario modeling and business cases; translate strategy into executable roadmaps with clear value realization.
Anticipate risks and dependencies; proactively align stakeholders and secure resources.
Support transformation of the organization and change management activities
Compliance
Good Distribution Practice (GDP): Partner with local teams to ensure compliance with local and global Quality requirements.
Internal Control: Proactively ensure compliance across Demand to Cash and Internal Control guidelines (including systematic documentation collection).
External Audit & Reporting: Partner with Finance and stakeholders to build a proactive, auditready posture.
Business Continuity Planning
Work across team to make Cost Control a Focus and Baseline for Organization
Support the Supply Chain budget process (forecasting, variance analysis, productivity tracking).
Work closely with Head of Regional Logistics to look at cost and service performance related to 3PLs and transportation providers —track activity, benchmark against contracts, and raise POs as needed.
Partner with Finance to look at cost across the business to see where we can continue to look for optimization within our structure and develop & execute action plans with all teams in NA to focus on performance improvements in areas such as Service level improvements, growth enabling and cost reduction
Ad Hoc
About You
Skills/Expertise/Experience:
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university and relevant experience in the supply chain / manufacturing industry
10+ years of Progressive leadership experience in relevant industry
Experience being able to influence or managing cross-functional or global teams
Preferred Skills/Expertise/Experience:
Strategic thinking - Ability to develop and execute long-term vision
Change management - Successfully led organizational transformations
Decision-making - Makes sound judgments under pressure with incomplete information
Stakeholder management - Builds relationships across all organizational levels
Knowledge of pharmaceutical primary and secondary manufacturing processes
Understanding of manufacturing finances and processes and ability to apply to supply chain management and changes and improvement project
Basic knowledge of regulatory processes and requirements
Skilled in scenario planning, risk / benefit analysis, contingency planning and problem solving
Strong willingness to drive change as well as good internal marketing and communication skills
Excellent systems (SAP and Kinaxis) skills and basic understanding of financial function
Demonstrated high standards of integrity, professionalism, and commitment
Good team facilitation and relationship building skills
Competency Requirements:
Stretch to go beyond the level we have operated at up until now
Act in the interest of our patients and customers
Take action instead of waiting to be told what to do
Put the interests of the organization ahead of my own or those of our team
Why Choose 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.
Take good care of yourself and your family, with a wide range of health and wellbeing benefits including high-quality healthcare, prevention and wellness programs and at least 14 weeks’ gender-neutral parental leave.
Sanofi US Services and its U.S. affiliates are Equal Opportunity employers committed to a culturally inclusive workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race; color; creed; religion; national origin; age; ancestry; nationality; marital, domestic partnership or civil union status; sex, gender, gender identity or expression; affectional or sexual orientation; disability; veteran or military status or liability for military status; domestic violence victim status; atypical cellular or blood trait; genetic information (including the refusal to submit to genetic testing) or any other characteristic protected by law.
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All compensation will be determined commensurate with demonstrated experience. Employees may be eligible to participate in Company employee benefit programs, and additional benefits information can be found here.
