Demand Planner (Japanese Speaker) – Sanofi-Aventis

The Demand Planner (Japanese Speaker) is responsible for generating and managing accurate customer demand signals within planning tools and ensuring alignment between business units, markets, manufacturing, and supply. The role involves collaboration with various stakeholders and participation in sales and operations execution activities to optimize forecast accuracy and supply plans.

The Demand Planner (Japanese Speaker) plays a key role in generating and managing accurate customer demand signals within Sanofi's planning tools such as Kinaxis. This position ensures alignment between Business Units and markets with Manufacturing and Supply by collaborating with stakeholders including Commercial BUs, Regulatory, Finance, and local Supply Chain teams. The role involves gathering demand factors, integrating statistical forecasts with local market knowledge, ensuring data accuracy, analyzing assumptions, and participating in sales and operations execution activities to maximize forecast accuracy and optimize supply plans.