About the job

We are an innovative global healthcare company, committed to transforming the lives of people with immune challenges, rare diseases and blood disorders, cancers, and neurological disorders. From R&D to sales, our talented teams work together, revolutionizing treatment, continually improving products, understanding unmet needs, and connecting communities. We chase the miracles of science every single day, pursuing progress to make a real impact on millions of patients around the world.

Strategic context:

Go To Market Capability (GTMC) organization aims for:ss

• Centralization of Go-to-Market excellence and operational tasks across GBUs
• Harmonizing best-in-class capabilities with strengthened global support while verticalization of reporting within GTMC from local to global,
• Defining clear ways of working and bringing clarity on interfaces with GBUs, Digital, and executional support on commercial operations form Sanofi hubs to optimize process excellence and efficiency.

Sanofi Greater China is facing a high pace of changes aiming at making the organization across GBUs more agile and impactful organization, adapting the constantly and proactively the resources to the environmental changes.

The Forecasting and Analytics Manager is a key element of Sanofi China’s Insights and Analytics team.

The present role is to run long-term and short-term forecasting by leveraging advanced statistical methodologies, to manage new tools (OneCI and GenAI) development, maintenance, and applications throughout the entire organization, along with insight generation based on qualitative and quantitative analysis.

Main Responsibilities:

Doing short-term and long-term forecasting by leveraging global and advanced modeling resources.

• Participate in communication with the global Forecasting and Analytics Team, and bring global knowledge, including both governance and advanced modeling methodologies, to local practice.
• Running short-term and long-term demand projections, making sure the projections are built upon solid statistical theory, rigorous time-series modeling, reasonable assumptions, and solid data input.
• Work with internal stakeholders, including finance, supply, marketing, and sales teams, to cascade the application of forecasting results throughout the whole organization.

Act as a PMO and also an expert during the development and promotion of new tools/AI applications.

• Engage in regular discussion with cross-functional teams to understand business KPIs and translate business problems into analytical/statistical models.
• Work closely with the digital team to ensure the successful landing and commercialization of AI/GenAI and data tools with high accuracy and efficiency, making sure the new tools stick to our key business requirements.
• Ensure the fluent adoption of new tools through regular training, reading behavior tracking, and analysis, etc.
• Access management by setting role-based access principles with regular reviews.

Ensure correct and on-time delivery of diversified analysis and deep-dive results.

• Work closely with IA business partners and other stakeholders to address other key business requirements and contribute to the establishment and operation of the knowledge center.
• Leverage internal qualitative and quantitative resources to develop robust analysis frameworks/statistical models and generate actionable insights for key business decisions.

About You

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or above, Master or MBA degree is a plus (Major in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, or related quantitative fields is highly preferred).
• Solid theoretical foundation and hands-on experience in statistical modeling, better if have deep expertise in Time-Series Forecasting (e.g., ARIMA, Prophet, ETS, or machine learning-based forecasting algorithms).
• Proven track record or strong preference for candidates with experience in landing AI, or advanced analytics solutions within a business context.
• Above 3 years of related working experience in consulting, market research, insights, and analytics. Experience in the Healthcare industry is a must; 2 years and above healthcare industry experience is highly preferred.
• Excellent internal and external communication and influencing skills.
• Expertise in Excel, PowerPoint, and PowerBI.
• Proficiency in statistical programming languages (such as Python or R) is a strong plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work with cross-functional teams.

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.

At Sanofi, we provide equal opportunities to all regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.

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