Demand Planner (Japanese Speaker)

About the job

Our Hubs are a crucial part of how we innovate, improving performance across every Sanofi department and providing a springboard for the amazing work we do. Build a career and you can be part of transforming our business while helping to change millions of lives. Ready? As the Demand Planner is a key driver in generating and managing accurate customer demand signals in Sanofi planning tools (Kinaxis). This position ensures the alignment of Business Units (BUs) and markets with Manufacturing and Supply (M&S) through collaboration with stakeholders at the market such as Commercial BUs, Regulatory, Finance and local Supply Chain (Demand Managers, Logistics and Customer Fulfillment / Engagement).

Main responsibilities

In close collaboration with key stakeholders, mainly the Demand Managers, BUs and upstream M&S planners :

• Gather past and future demand factors (e.g., tenders, competition, market share, price changes, new / discontinued products, short shelf-life impacts, out-of-stock situations, S&OE impacts, promotion plans, sales history cleansing) from Business Units (BUs) and forecast / model their impacts on demand in planning tools
• Integrate statistical forecasting with local market knowledge to enrich demand planning, accounting for deviations from statistical models, ensuring that statistical forecasts are only adjusted when we expect the accuracy increase
• Ensure a strong focus on accurate master data in planning and ERP tools and proper use of demand planning parameters, such as code switches, disaggregation rules, phase in / out, sales attributes etc.
• Analyze and question assumptions, consolidate sales forecasts from various markets, and ensure the coherence of the final plan.
• Capture active and inactive opportunities in planning tools to enable scenario planning, including supply constraints.
• Review significant deviations from forecast, budget, market trends, ensuring global data consistency.
• Participate in the Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) by delivering root cause analysis of demand plan changes in the short-term horizon, and sharing supply risks received from GBU Supply Chain teams upstream.
• Work towards continuously improving the objective of forecast accuracy to maximize OTIF to the client.
• Analyze and track products at risk of destruction due to short shelf-life or lack of demand, and engage relevant stakeholders to set up and execute action plans
• Conduct a Monthly Root Cause Analysis review of forecast deviations, Out-of-Stocks products to identify and implement actions to improve.
• Periodically check data consistency in planning tools and data.
• Work in coordination with Product Planners to ensure an effective communication of demand shifts to enable agile changes in the supply plan.
• Participate in all the committees where decisions are taken about new products, new adoptions, discontinuations, stock at risk due to short shelf-life etc. .. ensuring a good understanding of volumes, formats and dates. Update the Demand plan accordingly in Planning tools.
• Support the preparation and presentation of demand plans in IBP meetings.

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