Manager Demand Planning

6046-JANSSEN SUPPLY GROUP. Legal Entity•Titusville, NJ

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Demand Manager for the North America Regional Demand & Supply team within Innovative Medicine. The role is the link between Commercial and Supply Chain, translating market insights and business strategy into an aligned demand plan that supports product supply, inventory decisions, and business performance. It is based onsite/hybrid in Titusville, New Jersey, with an alternate onsite/hybrid location potentially available at other Innovative Medicine Supply Chain sites in North America, such as Horsham, Pennsylvania. The flexible work policy requires at least three onsite days each week, with the option of two remote days. The position may require up to 10% domestic and/or international travel. The manager leads the Integrated Business Planning demand process for an assigned portfolio, owns the 36-month unconstrained demand forecast, and serves as Global Brand Owner for selected brands. The role combines statistical projections with customer and channel signals, market insights, commercial strategy, lifecycle events, and financial expectations. It also provides cross-functional decision support on scenarios, demand and inventory impacts, trade-offs, risks, and mitigation actions. The anticipated base pay range is $102,000 to $177,100.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
At least 6 years of relevant experience in demand planning, supply chain planning, commercial analytics, finance, or a related field.
Experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, consumer health, or another complex, regulated supply chain.
Strong business and analytical skills, including scenario development and evaluation and connecting market and customer insights to demand, inventory, service, and financial results.
Ability to make sound decisions with incomplete information.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including simplifying complex information, influencing without authority, building cross-functional agreement, respectfully challenging senior stakeholders, and providing clear recommendations.
Ability to work onsite at least three days each week under the flexible work policy.
Ability to travel up to 10% domestically and/or internationally, as the position may require.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree, MBA, or degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or Analytics.
Experience partnering across Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Market Access, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and end-to-end Supply Chain teams, and building trusted relationships across functions, regions, and organizational levels.
Experience with complex product lifecycle events, including launches, mature brands, loss of exclusivity, generic competition, and discontinuations.
Experience with scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, market and channel analytics, customer inventory, and demand sensing.
Experience with enterprise planning, analytics, and visualization tools such as SAP, Anaplan, OMP, and Microsoft Excel.
Knowledge of Integrated Business Planning and monthly planning processes.

Responsibilities

Lead the Integrated Business Planning demand process for the assigned portfolio, including the monthly Demand Review.
Align Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning, and global partners on the demand outlook, assumptions, risks, opportunities, and decisions.
Own the 36-month unconstrained demand forecast using statistical projections, customer and channel signals, market insights, commercial strategy, lifecycle events, and financial expectations.
Ensure forecasts, assumptions, lifecycle events, and master data are accurately and promptly updated in Anaplan, OMP, and other planning systems; reconcile information across planning and reporting sources.
Serve as Global Brand Owner for selected brands, owning the combined global demand forecast and communicating changes, scenarios, risks, and opportunities to planning and supply partners.
Track forecast accuracy and bias using measures such as MAPE and BIAS, identify causes of error, and lead improvement actions with business partners.
Develop market understanding across patient and customer needs, channels, distributor and inventory trends, policy and access changes, economic factors, competitors, and therapeutic-area trends; translate insights into forecast updates and business actions.
Lead demand planning for product lifecycle events, including launches, indication or formulation changes, supply transitions, mature-brand optimization, discontinuations, and loss of exclusivity.
Partner with Commercial, Finance, Therapeutic Area Supply Chain Leads, Value Chain Management, Supply Planning, and other functions to develop scenarios, assess demand and inventory impacts, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend actions.
Identify demand changes, supply constraints, and customer-service risks early; lead demand mitigation, allocation planning, prioritization, and executive escalation as needed.
Represent Demand Management in Integrated Management Team and other portfolio governance forums, challenge assumptions, and drive timely cross-functional decisions.

Benefits

Company consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)), subject to plan terms.
Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year.
Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year, with specified higher allowances for employees residing in Colorado or Washington.
Holiday pay, including floating holidays: 13 days per calendar year.
Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year.
Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of the birth, adoption, or foster care of a child.
Bereavement Leave: 240 hours for an immediate family member and 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year.
Caregiver Leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period.
Volunteer Leave: 32 hours per calendar year.
Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours per calendar year.