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External Job Description**_ Job title_**_: Demand Planner_
- _ Location: Bogotá_
-_ About the job_
We deliver 4.3 billion healthcare solutions to people every year, thanks to the flawless planning and meticulous eye for detail of our Manufacturing & Supply teams. With your talent and ambition, we can do even more to protect people from infectious diseases and bring hope to patients and their families. Your job, as a **Demand Planner**within our M&S; Services Bogota Hub, is being 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).
This is achieved by translating local conditions such as product life cycles, sales patterns and what-if scenarios in actionable data in our planning tools. Another element of the role is on continuous improvement through performance analysis and actions to help achieve the goals of the organization to supply products in a reliable and competitive way.
We are an innovative global healthcare company with one purpose: to chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives. We’re also a company where you can flourish and grow your career, with countless opportunities to explore, make connections with people, and stretch the limits of what you thought was possible. Ready to get started?
** 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.
-_About you_
- **Soft and technical skills**: Excellent systems skills (SAP and Kinaxis) and basic understanding of financial function. Good team facilitation and relationship buildeing skills, demonstrated high standards of integrity, professionalism and commitment.
- **Education**: Bachelor’s degree in administration, Supply chain, Logistics, or any related fields.
- **Languages**: Fluent English communication and writing skills.
- **Start date: April**
-_ Why choose us? _
- Discover endless opportunities to grow your talent and drive your career, whether it’s through a promotion or lateral move, at home or internationally.
- You’ll be part of leading the first experiences a job seeker has with Sanofi and ensuring it is best-in-class and driving conversions.
- You’ll be part of a truly diverse cross-cultural team and can have real business impact.
- Versátil working policies, including up to 50% remote work.
- Private medical care, life and health insurance, and gender-neutral

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📌 Demand Planner (Bogotá)
🏢 Sanofi
📍 Bogotá