Demand Planning Lead

Job Overview

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 Med Tech, 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.

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Supply Chain Planning

Demand Planning

Professional

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America;
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Demand Planning Lead to be based at Raritan, NJ with consideration for Cincinnati, OH.

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 the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

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Reporting to the US Regional Planning Sr. Manager, the US Regional Demand Planning Lead is responsible for leading US Demand Planning and the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. Other responsibilities include business planning, coordinating US inventory strategy and planning activities, driving US service management and product allocations, all aiming to deliver on key performance indicators including forecast accuracy, customer service, and inventory.

The Demand Planning Lead will also identify, lead, and participate in digital initiatives that improve efficiency and data quality while enabling deeper customer and market insights.

• Lead Demand Planning for Surgery specific platforms within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process with continuous improvements
• Collaborate with functions such as Sales, Marketing, Commercial Operations, and Finance to identify and incorporate market intelligence (events) into the demand forecast and balance with statistical forecast model to achieve maximum accuracy
• Responsible for achieving forecast accuracy benchmarks for mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and aggregate forecast accuracy (Bias) via continuous improvement and solutions with relevant stakeholders
• Develop detailed execution plans and manage demand plans for new product introductions and life cycle management as required and aligned with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain
• Provide analytical and technical supply chain support for the assigned product portfolio as well as US Surgery.
• Effectively communicate accurate product availability information to customers and commercial partners with continuous improvement to the communication capabilities and process
• Ensure that demand planning, IBP, and business planning processes align with overall global processes and objectives
• Act as single point of contact for the US business for demand / forecast related activities for the sub franchise
• Clearly communicate with key stakeholders accordingly – including (but not limited to) Sales, Marketing, Commercial Operations, Finance, and Supply Chain partners
• Mentor associates and provide team leadership as needed
• Enable achievement of Product Availability and other On Time in Full (OTIF) targets and drive continuous improvements in…