Head of Warehouse & Logistics

Job title: Head of Warehouse & Logistics

Location: Singapore (Tuas)

Job Title: This role optimizes end-to-end materials flow from inbound to outbound, balancing efficiency, cost reduction and regulatory compliance, including customs. It also covers inventory management (stock levels, physical counts, obsolescence prevention), tactical warehouse capacity and equipment planning over a 0–36 month horizon, and operational budget oversight. The position further owns logistics IT and warehouse master data, acting as SAP WM key user, and requires strong cGMP, EHS and root-cause analysis expertise.

About Sanofi:

We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.

Ensures and optimizing materials flow by management of resources

Focusing on efficiency and cost reduction while complying with local regulations

Oversees Inbound-to-Outbound process

Monitor and report: Define and report KPIs

Management of Customs and other regulations

Manage sampling operations for materials

Manage staging and kitting operations

Inventory Management:

Ensure timely delivery of goods

Monitoring stock levels

Conducting periodic physical inventory checks

Preventing obsolescence and destruction

Maintaining dashboards for critical stock coverage

Tactical warehouse planning (capacity, labor, equipment, processes).

Creating transparency of needs for the future and translate them to projects/ initiates

Warehouse capacity management – 0 to 36 months view

Ensure logistics equipment are sufficient for operations, validated to be fit for purpose, and maintained in good working order. This include temperature controlled storage areas, material handling equipment, packaging equipment, and vehicles.

Ensure timely initiation and delivery of projects to meet business requirements

Operational Budget:

Monitor and align operational budget related to spend of warehouse  and transportation costs

Logistics IT Systems & MD:

Ensuring that IT system and tools are aligned with processes

Flag adjustments in logistics IT systems in line with processes, support implementation of new functionalities & new systems, ensuring alignment with ITS/Digital guidelines, and overseeing IT spending related to logistics.

Ensuring regular updates and coordination of data changes in line with central rules and proposing projects to optimize data management (only changes related to WM).

Serve as a key user to SAP warehousing module or delegate

Specific skills and experience requirement                               

Warehouse & Logistics Process Optimization: Strong knowledge and experience in supply chain management, including planning, material lifecycle management, and continuous process improvement in a pharmaceutical or manufacturing environment.

Compliance and Safety Expertise: Deep understanding of cGMP standards, quality control, safety regulations, and environmental health and safety (EHS) norms, ensuring compliance in all operational aspects.

Decision-Making and Problem-Solving: Ability to make autonomous decisions, manage resources effectively, and execute root cause analysis for process deviations.

Related KPIs and metrics

Warehouse usage / capacity

Logistics spend

Stock level and stock accuracy

Inventory Turnover Rate: Number of stock turnovers within a specific period to measure the efficiency of inventory usage.

Damages

Deviation rate and timeliness

On-Time-In-Full delivery (staging to production)

Pursue Progress . Discover Extraordinary .

Join Sanofi and step into a new era of science - where your growth can be just as transformative as the work we do. We invest in you to reach further, think faster, and do what’s never-been-done-before. You’ll help push boundaries, challenge convention, and build smarter solutions that reach the communities we serve. Ready to chase the miracles of science and improve people’s lives? Let’s Pursue Progress and Discover Extraordinary – together.

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

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, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, ability or gender identity.

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