Supply Planning Manager - Sandoz Italy Milano

Supply Planning Manager - Sandoz Italy
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

Role Purpose

Ensure operational excellence in supply chain planning through KPI monitoring, continuous improvement initiatives, and leading a high-performing planning team.

Guarantee the availability of finished goods, optimize inventory levels, and reduce costs, while adhering to the highest quality and regulatory compliance standards.

**Your Key Responsibilities

**Your responsibilities include, but not limited to**:

- Lead and motivate a team of supply chain planners, providing them with the resources and support needed to achieve objectives.

- Develop the team's competencies through training and coaching.

- Create a collaborative and results-oriented work environment.

- Develop and manage the Supply review monthly taking into consideration all information gathered from suppliers across ICO/ESO/ICO-ESO.

Integrate the results into the S&BP process.

Facilitate the analysis and develop the documents and indicators.

- Ensure the implementation of the action plan following the decisions made at S&BP meetings

- Highlight risks and opportunities in the demand plan from a Supply perspective, and facilitate decisions on implementation.

- Secure reliable supply, including proactively communication to Business Unit and Customer Service regarding availability dates and supply constraints.

- Drive process optimization initiative by involving both internal and external stakeholder in term of cost efficiency and quality where relevant.

- Responsible for stock allocation where shortage occur, execution of excess/short-date sales in conjunction with the relevant sales teams and working closely with Finance on provisions to minimize write offs

- Develop the forward looking inventory projection

- Proactively communicate and manage stock outs and propose and implement corrective actions taking into account the priority level of products

- Monitor sales/sales trends daily, ensuring inventory coverage adherence, identifying slow movers, delivery time variation etc.

and take corrective actions where necessary

- Strong collaboration with customers though regular S&BP meeting

- Cross collaboration with stakeholders (KAM, BPA, Customers Service )

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

We are committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

**What you'll bring to the role**:

**Essential Requirements**:

- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Economics

- Preferred APICS or similar Supply Certification

- Fluent in English and Italian

- Minimum 5/7 years in supply chain planning within a pharmaceutical or highly regulated industry

- Experience in project management, leading cross-functional global teams

- Good understanding of pharmaceutical or food industry supply chain processes

- Intercultural experience and ability to act in a complex and rapidly changing business environment

- Experience in leading cross-functional teams, leading and empowering People to help them innovate and progress in complex matrix organizations

- Strong knowledge of ERP systems and demand planning tools (e. g. , SAP APO, Kinaxis Rapid Response)

- Strong project Management skills (any certifications are a plus)

- Strong analytical skills

- Strong knowledge of business processes within pharmaceutical industry/other regulated markets

- Ability to work successfully with extended, multinational project teams and to influence others in a matrix organization

- Creative problem-solving skills

- Strong interpersonal communication and negotiation skills

**Why Sandoz?

Generic and Biosimilar medicines are the backbone of the global medicines industry.

Sandoz, a leader in this sector, touched the lives of almost 500 million patients last year and while we are proud of this achievement, we have an ambition to do more!

With investments in new development capabilities, state-of-the-art production sites, new acquisitions, and partnerships, we have the opportunity to shape the future of Sandoz and help more patients gain access to low-cost, high-quality medicines, sustainably.

**The future is ours to shape!

Sandoz

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