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Sanofi Group Regional Lead Buyer – Supply Chain Procurement and Packaging in India
Job title : Regional Lead Buyer – Supply Chain Procurement and Packaging
Location: India
Remote working according to Indian HR rules and 10% of travel expected.
Full time
About the job
At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we have one overarching mission - to work passionately, challenging ourselves and our industry every day, to build a healthier future by helping people, help themselves, bringing “Health in Your Hands”. Our teams are building trusted & loved brands that connect with hundreds of millions of consumers worldwide, enabling better self-care for individuals and communities, while also contributing to a healthier planet. To fulfill this mission, we are embarking our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees in this journey because this is what will make us become the “Best Fast-Moving Consumer Healthcare (FMCH) Company In & For the World”. We strive to act as a force for good by integrating sustainability along our business and employees’ mission and operate responsibly from both a social and environmental point of view. To achieve this, we need strong talent who will help us shape the future of our Consumer Healthcare business and challenge our industry. At Sanofi Consumer Healthcare, we aspire to create a work environment where people can thrive, grow, and be at their best every day. Our priority is working with integrity to improve the health and well-being of people and communities where we operate, working towards making a positive impact in the world.
Our Team:
At Sanofi CHC, we have one shared purpose - we work passionately, every day, to ‘serve healthier, fuller lives. Our marketing philosophy is driven by this purpose and everything we do is centered around people – our consumers, our customers, healthcare professionals, and our employees – across the world.
We are building brands that serve 1bn consumers worldwide, so that they can live healthier, fuller lives. To do this better than anybody else, we aspire to become the most consumer-centric Consumer Healthcare company. We want to be market shapers and achieve category leadership in the categories that we play in - delivered through strong global-local partnership. We are a people first business, placing consumers at the heart of everything we do through uncovering and activating deep consumer and shopper insights, for example.
Within the CHC global procurement team, you can develop your appetite for risk taking, creativity, entrepreneurship, and agility. Are you fond of scouting, sourcing, and negotiating and would you like to thrive in a fast-moving consumer world / breakthrough project which enable / highly support CHC growth? Do you want to improve your stakeholder’s management?
Please, do not hesitate, join our multicultural team, and enjoy our journey.
Our ambition is to deliver Business Continuity with outstanding Value Creation, enabling CHC growth and vision to be the Best FMCH company in the World and for the World.
Our mission is to deliver Business Continuity, Performance -sustainability, cost savings and headwinds mitigation, cash & innovation, and PRM. Our success criteria is win/win partnerships with our internal & external stakeholders.
Scope:
The Regional Lead buyer will manage Indian activities related to:
full scope of Supply Chain Procurement including Distribution and Transport activities ( 10M€ spend) covering deliveries from 15 CMO, 2 plants and physical distribution from 15 regional Distribution Center.
Full scope of CHC CMO’s packaging material, (based out of India) >10 CMOs
Main responsibilities:
To ensure business continuity for India from Day 1.
To be accountable and responsible to develop and implement procurement strategy for Supply Chain
To be responsible to execute Packaging Material strategies
To create values or competitive advantages for our brands: top and bottom line with the ad hoc commitment with reliable suppliers
To build, drive and or execute and monitor performance agreed during financial cycles: reliability as well as consistency, predictability are key.
To relentless improve Supply Chain and Packaging category knowledge: market intelligence, cost structure model, via scouting/sourcing/curiosity.
To drive Supplier Management Relationship for the sake of CHC growth and suppliers’ partnership.
Main stakeholders:
Directs Procurement: Procurement Performance and Market Intelligence
M&S: regional finance, PPM and regional KSOL, Local supply Chain
Sustainability tribe
Procurement Excellence, EM Procurement and Procurement Indirects.
About you
Experience : At least 5 years of experience in procurement, experience with proven track record in building and leading cross functional team
Soft skills : challenger mindset, effective communication skill , capacity to develop a strategy thinking while managing operational ones, capacity to resist to stress and pressure,
Technical skills : Data management, cost structure management, negotiation skill/tools
Education : University degree in engineering, business school or equivalent
Languages : Fluent in English
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.
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