Senior Planner - External Supply

Janssen Supply Group, LLC, a member of Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is currently recruiting for a Senior Planner - External Supply!

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Janssen Supply Group, LLC is part of Janssen Supply Chain, 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 collaboration with their R&D and Commercial partners to deliver life changing solutions for patients in need.

Are you interested in joining a diverse team delivering outstanding results to our customers? Apply now for this exciting opportunity!

The External Supply Senior Planner is a strategic liaison between the Internal JSG customers and the external manufacturing sites. This position is responsible for the global planning and material management of externally manufactured and or packaged products. This position defines, measures, analyzes and implements improvement and controls planning and material 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 customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures processes and systems are in place to support the new product launches.
• Manages performance development plan and company goals to achieve personal and business excellence.
• Tracks and reports OTIF, SLOB, Inventory targets, Demand Order Coverage, STEM Adherence, stock outs, and on-time launch metrics.
• Supports S&OP and business plan teams. Develops supply plans in support of new launches.
• Manages inventory, SLOB process to maintain accurate and target stock levels at DC and EM sites.
• Sets up a balanced volume plan, detailed plan and material plan which considers operations efficiency, inventory and stock cost, SLOB risk and customer service.
• Creates and maintains relationships, internally and externally, that allow plants to interpret demand and inventory requirements and respond with the right capacity, products and schedules to meet customer requirements.
• Leads improvement projects or participates in IMT or critical issue discussions.
• Implements Digital Capabilities (One Network systems implementation, Performance Metrics) for external manufacturing sites.
• Performs rough-cut capacity Planning and alignment in Production systems to meet customers' requirements.
• Follows global monthly planning schedule to deliver plans to downstream plants in OMP.
• Collaborates with E2E-planners, master data team, PES, finance, procurement, AP, QA/QC, VSL, Launch Mgmt, Inv Mgmt and IT.
• Ensures finished products and work in process master data is updated in a timely manner on all correspondent systems.
• Communicates forecast and priorities to the external sites; including event planning.
• Identifies and leads process related improvements across the supply chain.
• Creates new and ensures master data is accurate and updated as required for reliable MRP/ERP outputs.
• Proactive identification of issues that may impact supply, drives short- and long-term planning activities/processes and day-to-day planning, retrieves, interprets demand and sales trends, calculates safety stock, optimizes inventory levels, resolves mismatches/payment issues, collects monthly supplier performance metrics and creates/updates orders to external suppliers.
• Ensures MPS and or Forecast have been entered into Inventory system.
• Leads planners and represents External Planning on Global Planning and cross team initiatives.
• Responsible for Capacity Planning and SRM for product portfolio.
• Day to day supply issue management.
• Creates and maintains Purchase Orders and SAP transactions.

Qualifications

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree is required, focus in Supply Chain, Business is preferred.

Required:

• Ability to embed a culture of harmonization and process improvement and value creation
• Clear understanding of external Supply Chain trends
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple initiatives and work in across teams where priorities change rapidly and require delivering results against tight deadlines
• A minimum of six (6) years of experience in planning, operations, logistics, supply chain or related experience
• Proven business insight in the area of Supply Chain and financials
• Ability to partner with and influence others with minimal coaching
• Ability to prioritize issues to support the customer and supply chain requirements; and operate across teams in a cross-functional organization
• Collaborates effectively to achieve performance improvement
• Establishes effective communications and common goals and objectives
• Serve as a role model for Credo based decision-making
• Proficiency in SAP and MS Excel with ability to create V-Lookups and Pivot Tables
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, excellent communication and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to work across organizational boundaries through influence, negotiation and partnership

Preferred:

• Experience within the following processes: master production schedule process, inventory management, supply chain management, scenario analysis, sales and operations planning, Planning Systems (APO/OMP) and other cross-functional business processes common to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industry
• APICS and LEAN Certification

Other:

• Ability to travel domestically up to 10% of the time
• Ability to work Flexible hours to accommodate US, EMEA and Asia-Pac work schedules when needed, balancing work and personal time required

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $88,000- $142,600. The base salary range listed is based on a US pay scale and may be adjusted based on the successful candidate’s geographic location.

At Johnson & Johnson, we’re on a mission to change the trajectory of health for humanity. That starts by creating the world’s healthiest workforce. Through cutting-edge programs and policies, we empower the physical, mental, emotional and financial health of our employees and the ones they love. As such, candidates offered employment must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination or secure an approved accommodation prior to the commencement of employment to support the well-being of our employees, their families and the communities in which we live and work.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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