Reimagining Supply Chain Careers in the AI Era

After 25 years at L’Oréal, Vanessa Clemendot made the leap from beauty to biopharma – and into a workforce being redefined by AI. Now SVP, Global Supply Chain at Sanofi, Vanessa sits down with Caroline Chumakov, Principal, Research at Zero100, to unpack the shift from siloed execution to cross-functional orchestration, the rise of judgment over computation as agents handle the heavy lifting, and why data literacy is now table stakes.

1. Vanessa Clemendot’s career across 25 years, 10+ roles, and 3 continents (00:55)
2. The first 90 days at Sanofi (03:58)
3. Working with AI: where computation ends and judgment begins (06:12)
4. Who owns the tech stack? It’s not one team (09:34)
5. One dataset + real time decisions = planning in orchestration (11:23)
6. M&A and divestitures across newly split supply chains (13:55)
7. Day one advice: trusting your gut (19:08)