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 https://www.jnj.com
Job Function: Supply Chain Planning
Job Sub Function: Demand Planning
Job Category: People Leader
All Job Posting Locations: Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years. We embrace research and science -- bringing creative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Every day, our more than 130,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.
At Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, we are using our breadth, scale and experience to reimagine the way healthcare is delivered and help people live longer, healthier lives. In a radically changing environment, we are making connections across science and technology to combine our own expertise in surgery, orthopedics, vision and interventional solutions with the big ideas of others to design and deliver physician and patient-centric products and solutions.
As pioneers in medical devices, we continually focus on elevating the standard of care--working to expand patient access, improve outcomes, reduce health system costs and drive value. We create smart, people-centered healthcare to help the patients we serve recover faster and live longer and more vibrantly.
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Johnson & Johnson Medical is recruiting for a Regional Planning Manager, located in Pune. The Regional Planner, ASPAC is responsible for carrying out regional demand & deployment planning processes for Medical business in the region. This individual will work in close collaboration with global plan and country/cluster supply chain teams to ensure attainment of aligned business goals and objectives. This position will be responsible for providing statistical forecast input, coordinating demand -supply handover with clusters Supply Chain teams, ensuring timely product and instrument availability by coordinating with global Plan team and weekly /monthly customer service updates.
Key Responsibilities:
The Planner is responsible for carrying out the demand & deployment planning
for Medical business in ASPAC region. The position is responsible to:-
-Provide statistical forecast input for country/cluster demand planning process and manage business forecasts over 12/24 months horizon for strategic planning and manufacturing / capacity planning.
-Coordinate and Lead demand-supply handover with country/cluster plan teams.
-Aggregate country/cluster demand to create regional demand overview and analyze business/financial plans (BP/FP) and demand plans (DP) gaps
-Coordinate with Global Plan for timely product availability/service levels in the countries and communicate availability information on a weekly basis.
-Ensure business continuity by managing the supply disruptions and demand surges by ensuring timely escalation for significant supply disruptions.
-Manage the inventory and inventory health targets (slow and obsolete inventory).
-Operate and coordinates the entire Network Planning process to ensure the product availability for the franchise-country
-Run MRP, raise PO's and Planning Parameter review for ensuring product availability for franchise-country
-Support product portfolio optimization, asset reconfiguration projects, which has potential impact on product availability and business continuity in the region
-Operates ERP and Advanced Planning Systems and Tools
Qualifications - External
Education: Essential:
- Bachelor's degree
Desirable:
- Master in Business Administration
- Green Belt six-sigma certification
- APICS Certification
Knowledge
- 3+ years of relevant experience
- Experienced ERP & Planning Systems user
- Supply chain experience in medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
Skills
- Fundamentals of Supply Chain
- Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for planning.
- Ability to use advance statistical techniques
- Accuracy with attention to detail
- Ability to collaborate with virtual teams