Americas Deliver Planning Lead
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine•Markham, ON
•Hybrid
About The Position
The Americas Deliver Planning Lead is accountable for driving end-to-end flow optimization and lane-level planning execution across the Americas distribution and transportation network primarily focused on the LATAM market. This role ensures optimal freight flow design, distribution capacity alignment, and cost-to-serve performance through advanced analytics, scenario modeling, and cross-functional collaboration. The Lead enables enterprise decision-making by translating demand and supply signals into distribution and lane-level plans (0–24 months), optimizing mode mix, and proactively identifying risks and opportunities across inbound and outbound flows.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred
- 5+ years of experience in supply chain planning, transportation, or network optimization
- Experience in flow optimization, lane planning, or transportation modeling
- Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed organization
Nice To Haves
- Experience in multi-region distribution and logistics networks
- Strong capabilities in analytics, scenario modeling, and decision frameworks
- Expertise in network optimization tools, freight modeling, or advanced analytics platforms
- Ability to translate strategy into scalable, executable planning solutions
- APICS/CSCP/CLTD/CPIM and/or Lean Six Sigma; degree in Supply Chain/Operations/Engineering
- Supply chain experience in medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
- Deep understanding of financial processes.
Responsibilities
- Supply, Capacity Planning Lead Deliver supply and capacity planning across owned and 3PL distribution centers and transportation partners primarily focused on the LATAM region
- Ensure accurate and timely visibility of capacity constraints, risks, and trade‑offs across the Deliver network.
- Support regional Deliver teams in executing capacity and labor plans aligned to business priorities.
- Execute Deliver planning scenarios and trade‑off analyses to support enterprise decision‑making.
- Represent Deliver planning outcomes in monthly operation forums and leadership discussions.
- Flow & Lane Planning Lead lane-level planning across inbound and outbound flows, ensuring alignment between forecast, capacity, and execution.
- Identify and proactively mitigate lane bottlenecks and capacity constraints ahead of demand peaks.
- Coordinate with carriers and 3PL partners to align capacity with forecasted volumes.
- Product Distribution Strategy & Flow Governance Establish and lead a structured, recurring process to define and manage how products flow through the existing distribution network (manufacturing → hubs → local DCs).
- Translate global network design into scalable, executable flow rules across Surgery and EP/NV portfolios.
- Define and govern product flow segmentation strategies, including differentiation for fast vs. slow movers to optimize service, cost, and inventory positioning.
- Define and standardize the role of primary hubs, secondary hubs, and local DCs (large vs. small) within the network.
- Implement a recurring governance cadence to review and update product flows (e.g., new products, node additions, demand shifts).
- Scenario Planning & Decision Support Develop scenario-based lane and contingency plans for disruptions (e.g., node outages, volume variability).
- Provide clear insights on cost, service, and capacity tradeoffs across distribution capacity flow decisions.
- Translate analytics into actionable recommendations for leadership forums and planning cycles.
- Capacity & Performance Management Monitor and manage lane capacity utilization and DC storage utilization vs. plan and identify improvement opportunities.
- Track and optimize SG&A warehousing and COGS freight spend, ensuring alignment with financial targets.
- Identify and quantify flow optimization opportunities across the network.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with Regional Deliver, Transportation (D&T), GTTO, Business Unit Supply Chain Planning, carriers, and 3PLs.
- Influence stakeholders through data-driven insights on flow performance, risks, and tradeoffs.
- Support alignment between network strategy, IBP, and operational execution
- Owns: Execution of Deliver Operations Planning activities
- Owns: Deliver supply, and capacity planning outcomes
- Owns: Lane-level planning and flow optimization across Americas network
- Owns: Mode mix optimization and freight routing strategy
- Owns: Scenario modeling and contingency flow design
- Does Not Own: Day‑to‑day operational execution in distribution or transportation
- Does Not Own: Enterprise network design
- Does Not Own: IBP governance frameworks (provides input and analytics support)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
