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Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Production Planning & Scheduling

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for an External Planning Lead to join our Team!

Janssen Supply Chain (JSC) is a global organization responsible for supplying medicines to markets around the world. With Quality as their primary focus, this group strives to provide access and affordability through innovation and strong collaboration with their R&D and Commercial partners to deliver life changing solutions for patients in need.

Are you interested in joining a team that is positively impacting patients' lives by ensuring material availability and planning process readiness to produce our Innovative Medicine products? Apply today for this exciting opportunity!

The Planning Lead is responsible for strategic liaising between the Internal JSC customers and external manufacturing sites. They strive for the global site planning management of biologic products manufactured in external suppliers at multiple nodes. They define, measure, analyze, and implement planning controls and processes to ensure base business, launches, long term, and individual's goals are aligned with JSC strategic objectives. The success of this role is measured by timely deliveries of orders, which meet target inventory levels and maintain continuity of supply to our patients within strategic, open-mind, innovative and End to End approach. Excellent opportunity for future career growth!

Key Responsibilities

• Set up and run business plan considering operations efficiency, inventory analysis, SLOB risk and customer service while maintaining accurate stock levels across the network of distribution centers and external sites.

• Meet supply agreement terms and communicate forecast and priorities to the external sites, including event planning while ensuring accurate set up to support NPIs and other initiatives.

• Follow global monthly planning routines to deliver plans to plants in OMP and support integrated business planning by allowing plants to interpret demand and inventory requirements and respond with the right capacity, products, and schedules.

• Proactive identification of issues that may impact supply, handle short- and long-term planning activities/processes and day-to-day planning, QA, and customer issues, as well as support events and escalations.

• Track and report key performance indicators and ensure action plans in place for business improvement purposes.

• Represent Planning on Virtual Management teams and on joint forums with external partners and cultivate partnership and a collaborative culture by living into our Credo.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent University degree is required.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Minimum 4 years of relevant work experience

• Experience in Planning, Operations, Supply Chain, or related function

• Strong analytical skills, including proficiency in MS Excel (e.g., VLOOKUPS, Pivot Tables)

• Ability to prioritize initiatives/issues, effectively communicate across organizational boundaries through leadership by influence & negotiation skills to build and cultivate internal and external relationships

Preferred:

• Experience with one or more of the following processes: master production schedule process, inventory management, scenario analysis, sales and operations planning, and/or Planning Systems (e.g., SAP, APO/OMP)

• Supply Chain Certification (APICS) and/or Lean Certification

• Experience in Pharmaceutical or Biopharmaceutical industry

• Knowledge/ exposure to advanced digital capabilities (e.g., PowerBI, Tableau, etc.)

Other:

• Requires the ability and flexibility to accommodate global work schedules when needed

• Requires ability to travel up to 10% domestically

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:

Analytical Reasoning, Business Savvy, Communication, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Distribution Management, Inventory Optimization, Manufacturing Flow Management, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Problem Solving, Process Optimization, Product Design, Production Operations, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Relationship Building, Supply Planning, Workflow Analysis

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$94,000.00 - $151,800.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below.
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits