Manager Plan Capabilities Demand Planning

Manager Plan Capabilities (Demand Planning)

The J&J Vision Global Planning Excellence (PEX) team is a critical component of the broader J&J Vision Supply Chain Planning organization. PEX is responsible for setting the strategic direction of Vision Planning, developing capabilities (People, Process, Technology, Metrics) and ensuring effective deployment of these within the business to drive continuous improvement and improve efficiency, effectiveness, optimizing working capital whilst keeping our customer's needs central to what we do.

The Manager Plan Capabilities (Demand Planning), is a technical, subject matter expert, for demand planning in OMP (Advanced Planning System). This role reports into the Senior Manager Plan Capabilities (Demand Planning) and resides within the Supply Chain Planning organization.

Key Responsibilities :

• Leading OMP demand planning system investigations, root cause analysis, issues resolution and corrective actions with internal and external partners.
• Delivering demand planning system capabilities, supporting the S&OP / IBP drumbeat.
• Monitoring, supporting technical activities (jobs, scripts, schedule, downtimes) to ensure OMP system readiness for demand planning.
• As project leader, driving OMP demand planning system enhancements in line with the demand planning capability transformation roadmaps.
• Partnering with internal and external IT, leading continuous improvement initiatives to ensure system robustness and efficiency.
• Developing organizational knowledge around OMP, sharing expertise and further refining training material and documentation content in support of the PEX team and broader business education.
• Providing proactive, concise communications to the regional and global demand planning community as it relates to project execution, business transformations, and change impact.
• Improving OMP demand planning system usage and capabilities, through test and learn initiatives.
• Acting as a pioneer for demand planning, sharing best practices, supporting system adoption and understanding.
• Building strong collaboration with business partners to ensure operational excellence in both system and processes.
• Leading sustainment and stability of the planning system solution, working closely with internal PEX partners, and engaging internal J&J IT teams.

Key Relationships :

This position will work closely with various Supply Chain stakeholders including but not limited to :

Qualifications

Education :

Experience :

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Other Requirements :

Preferred : Jacksonville (USA), Limerick (Ireland), Pune (India), New Jersey (USA), Belgium or other J&J Hub locations will be considered case by case. Remote role supporting global teams.

Language Requirements : English.

Travel Requirements : Up to 10%.