EM&S Turkey Supply Chain Manager

About the job

Reporting to the EM&S Middle East Head, the Turkey Supply Chain Manager provides strategic leadership over the External Manufacturing & Supply perimeter at Turkey level. This role owns the end-to-end integration, stabilization, and performance of a newly created external manufacturing activity, leading the operational transformation, governance model, and team development required to ensure long-term business continuity and growth.

Main responsibilities:

Acting as the strategic leader for the Turkey External Manufacturing & Supply perimeter, the EM&S Supply Chain Manager owns the end-to-end performance, integration, and operational build-up of Turkey EM&S activity. He ensures product availability, operational excellence, and compliance while leading cross-functional alignment with markets, CMOs, and internal stakeholders.

• Strategic leadership of the New External Manufacturing Activity

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• Lead the full integration and setup of the new External Manufacturing Activity in Turkey, including governance model with CMO, processes, performance, master data structure, and operational flows.

• Act as the point of accountability for all strategic and operational decisions to ensure supply continuity, hyper-care phase, product availability, inventory valuation, and CMO performance.

• Provide strategic leadership and governance between markets, CMOs, partners, and internal stakeholders (EM&S, Finance, Quality, Regulatory…) to secure supply performance, mitigate risks, and support the regional expansion roadmap.

• Define and implement the EM&S Turkey Supply Chain roadmap, ensuring compliance and alignment with global strategy.

• Lead risk management, including capacity risks, quality constraints, raw material shortages, and artwork readiness.

• Negotiate and steer CMO SLAs and contractual commitments, ensuring strong collaboration with the Key Account function to achieve CSL, cost, and agility targets.

• Prepare and lead MSA performance reviews with CMOs

• Steer the S&OP process for EM&S Turkey perimeter to ensure aligned demand, supply, and capacity scenarios.

• Lead IBP governance for Turkey, challenging assumptions, aligning volumes (C1/C2/Budget/LRP) and presenting scenarios and trade-offs to Senior Leadership Team while contributing to budget cycles and strategic planning exercises in collaboration with Finance and Industrial Affairs.

• Lead integration projects, including the onboarding of new activities, and external manufacturing partners.

2. Demand Management & Planning Excellence

• Own the demand validation process, challenging assumptions while ensuring alignment with manufacturing capabilities and business priorities.
• Develop robust short- and long-term product requirement plans for EM&S Turkey perimeter.
• Ensure alignment of volumes with budget cycles, supply parameters, stock policy, and capacity assumptions.
• Lead OOS diagnosis, projections, and mitigation planning to secure service level performance.
• Evaluate and escalate major risks to the regional leadership when needed.
• Lead and implement improvement strategies to optimize production flow and inventory consumption.

3. Operations & Supply Performance Management

• Lead and develop Turkey Supply Chain team, ensuring capability building, clear accountability, and high-performance culture.
• Deploy and monitor OTIF, CSL, CRI, SLA and inventory KPIs with a structured governance and escalation model.
• Lead operations review meetings with CMOs and internal stakeholders, ensuring transparency, and effective decision-making.
• Supervise logistics flows, warehouse operations, toll item management, and master data accuracy in SAP/Kinaxis.
• Oversee artwork changes, documentation readiness, and waste minimization.
• Ensure compliance with MSA contractual clauses, Quality requirements, HSE standards, and internal control frameworks.
• Optimize supply chain activities by managing obsolescence risks, stock movements, and process efficiency improvements.
• Develop a continuous improvement culture, focusing on process simplification, and digital enablement.

4. Compliance

• Comply with internal Code of Ethics, maintaining high professional standards in line with company procedures.
• Demonstrate duty of care toward protecting the company’s reputation.

5. Ethical Leadership

• Take personal accountability by applying experience, training, and company tools to uphold ethical and governance standards relevant to the role (including company policies, procedures, and applicable legal requirements).
• Escalate decisions or seek guidance when personal knowledge or understanding is insufficient.

6. Environmental & Safety Leadership

• Supporting and complying with company safety rules and procedures.
• Reporting any accidents, incidents, or near-misses—whether involving personal injury or property damage.
• Assisting in the investigation of accidents to help implement preventive measures.
• Reading and following all safety documentation issued by the company.
• Escalating any uncertainties or concerns to their supervisor or manager.

About you

• Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in science, Pharmacy, Chemical Technology, Engineering, Management, or Project Management in healthcare (Supply Chain and Industrial Affairs), or another Master’s degree.

• Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience with strong knowledge of processes and cross-functional team leadership in the pharmaceutical industry. Experience in manufacturing is an advantage

Skills:

Technical skills

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and data-driven decision-making

• Solid expertise in SAP / Kinaxis

• Deep understanding of pharmaceutical manufacturing, quality, and supply chain processes

• Strong command of Production Planning & Control in complex environments

• Proven ability to manage and improve Customer Service Level (CSL) and end-to-end supply KPIs

• Strong knowledge of planning adherence, capacity management, and supply parameter optimization

• Experience in setting up EM&S activities (desirable)

Leadership skills

o Ability to lead and develop teams, set clear expectations, and build capability

o Strong cross-functional leadership across Supply, Quality, IA, Finance, and CMOs

o Ability to take timely decisions with full accountability

o Capacity to manage multiple stakeholders and influence senior-level discussions

o Strong organizational and project management skills, especially in building new processes or governance models

o Ability to make timely decisions and take effective actions

o Strong organizational capabilities

Analytical & Strategic Skills

o Strong analytical mindset with the ability to structure complex problems and translate data into decisions

o Ability to design and deploy strategic road maps, especially in new or transforming environments

o Sharp understanding of the pharmaceutical market, regulatory constraints, and supply chain risks

o Comfort operating in highly dynamic, cross-functional, and international settings

o Ability to anticipate risks, build mitigation plans, and drive continuous improvement initiatives

• Languages:

o Fluent Turkish and English is required

At Sanofi, we chase the miracles of science to improve people's lives. We're R&D-driven, AI-powered, and committed to delivering transformative healthcare solutions across the globe.

Why choose us?

Shape the future of medicine and vaccine delivery with cutting-edge technology, ensuring seamless launches and a resilient global supply.

• Power industry-leading performance by leveraging digital, data, and AI-driven innovation – at speed and scale.
• Transform lives worldwide by delivering life-changing treatments anywhere, anytime.
• Grow, thrive, and make an impact in a workplace that empowers you to bring your best self every day, with pride.
• Work with AI, robotics, and next-gen automation to redefine global manufacturing and supply.
• Be part of world-first initiatives like our Modulus factory, smart factories, and AI-driven supply chain solutions.
• Help deliver 30+ new product launches by 2030, ensuring patients get treatments faster than ever.
• Develop new skills, explore cross-functional roles, and work in an environment that values growth and discovery.
• Every year, we distribute over 4 billion units of medicines and vaccines, ensuring people worldwide receive the treatments they trust.

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