Job Description

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Integrated Business Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a highly qualified and motivated individual to join our team as a Senior Manager, Americas Regional Plan to be located in Jacksonville, FL.

About Vision

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose:

The Senior Manager, Americas Regional Plan is responsible for supporting the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process and regional demand plan process maturity improvements for Americas Vision business. In this role they will collaborate across key functions to support the monthly IBP process, facilitating aligned decision making through evaluating and revising projections for demand, supply, inventory, portfolio strategies, strategic projects, and the resulting financial plans.

This individual will serve as a leader in the Americas Planning organization, partnering with business partners to collect, analyze, consolidate, and report data and metrics to improve the decision-making process, ensuring IBP process adherence and driving opportunities for process maturity improvement.

Knowledge Skills and Capabilities:

• Ability to build, develop, mentor, and lead multi-functional and virtual team teams in the execution, strategies, and realization of departmental and company goals.
• Ability to mentor and develop accountable, diverse, and global leaders who inspire and empower others.
• Ability to communicate information and insights clearly, making the complex clear and compelling to all levels of the organization in both written & oral forms.
• Ability to influence Director and VP Levels within the organization (Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain) and in a multi-stakeholder environment.
• Ability to drive and apply continuous process improvement tools and improvements with a solution-oriented approach to large and complex projects.
• Has strong business acuity, understand the business; portfolio, markets, customers, challenges and demands.
• Applies business and financial knowledge to drive decisions and key outcomes, demonstrating strong decision-making ability in a multiple scenario environment.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to handle and manipulate large amounts of data and convert to clear business information.

Americas IBP Process & Integrated Decision Making

• Collaborate cross functionality to drive the steps of the IBP process, focusing on demand plan valorization, inventory management, risk and opportunity transparency, and overall business target setting.
• Responsible for influencing large scale regional and global teams to collect, analyze, consolidate, and report key data, improving the decision-making process to bridge gaps vs. the financial plan and drive profitable trade off decisions where required.
• Leads IBP reviews with the appropriate Management Boards including maintaining senior leader engagement in the IBP process to drive decision making execution within the process.
• Advances IBP Planning Capabilities across Vision, leading areas that will enable growth, improve Customer Experience, and drive E2E Supply Chain efficiencies.
• Monitors the IBP process to measure process adherence and periodically participates in process assessments.
• Develops and leads implementation of optimization of supply chain capabilities to further improve the supply chain.
• Conducts analytics to address business problems with an end-to-end mentality.
• Supports execution of the E2E Sense and Respond process, ensuring deviations are raised (as needed) as defined by process inputs.
• Develops a culture of accountability around maintaining key supply chain inputs (both within planning and with other key functions) that reflect actual performance as it exists in the current state.

Demand Planning Excellence and Process Maturity

• Leads the Americas Regional Demand Planning Organization, with a focus on strong regional collaboration and process maturity.
• Standardizes and improves planning processes and introduces new processes based on functional expertise, external proven methodologies, and Enterprise Plan standards.
• Advances process maturity through validated methodologies, training plans, defined technology/reporting roadmaps, and process improvement projects.
• Owns demand planning analytics; develops and deploys a consistent set of tools to improve key supply chain metrics and support business decisions.
• Leads ongoing process governance, regularly monitoring process integrity and compliance.
• Leads change management practices to ensure effective implementation and integration of process improvement initiatives.

Education and Experience

• University Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent required. MBA or equivalent preferred. Green Belt Six Sigma Certifications & Supply Chain Certification (APICS/IBF) preferred.
• 5-10 Years related experience
• Minimum of 4 years working directly in Supply Chain Planning as a functional expert in one or more Planning Capabilities.
• Experience with Supply Chain, Commercial/Marketing, Finance preferred.
• Experience with ERP (SAP/APO/SNP) & Advanced Planning Systems (OMP, Anaplan) is preferred.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Agility, Business Alignment, Business Continuity Planning (BCP), Business Process Management (BPM), Collaboration, Consulting, Corporate Management, Demand Planning, Emerging Technologies, Manufacturing Flow Management, Organizing, Risk Management, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Analysis, Supply Planning, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility