Senior Manager, GPEX Regional Process Integration Leader, Americas

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • Hopewell Township, NJ

1d • $122,000 - $212,750 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager RPIL for Americas serves as the primary integration point between GPEX and Regional Demand & Supply across the Americas. This role translates global planning strategy into regional execution, brings regional business requirements and insights into global process and technology roadmaps, and drives cross-process priorities across demand and supply planning. This role supports planning capabilities across Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Demand Planning, New Product Introduction (NPI) and Launch Planning, Inventory and Slow-Moving & Obsolete Inventory (SLOB) Management, Planning Performance Management, Supply Network Planning, and related end-to-end planning processes.
The RPIL combines strategic influence with hands-on regional deployment, partnering with Regional Leadership, Regional Directly Responsible Individuals (DRIs), Global Process Managers (GPMs), Business Process Owners (BPOs), Technology Product Owners (TPOs), Key Users (KUs), Learning & Development, Finance, Commercial, JJT, and other partners to deploy global standards, lead region-specific initiatives, handle adoption, and deliver measurable business outcomes. The Americas RPIL support diverse regional, market, operating-model, and capability needs across North America and LATAM while maintaining alignment to global standards.

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor's / University or equivalent degree is required
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience
• Experience in supply chain process and/or digital transformation initiatives
• Strong experience in supply chain planning, with significant exposure to IBP/S&OP and/or Demand Planning
• Experience or exposure with at least one Planning Process such as NPI/Launch, Inventory/SLOB, Supply Network Planning, or performance management
• Proven success leading complex, cross-functional process or technology deployments in a regional, global, or multi-country environment
• Experience translating business requirements into scalable process, data, technology, capability, and change solutions
• Proven track record to lead portfolio governance, manage interdependencies, surface risks, and drive decisions across multiple concurrent initiatives
• Strong change leadership, customer engagement, communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority and communicate complex topics clearly
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, including the ability to use data and business insight to prioritize actions and measure outcomes
• Requires proficiency in English (written and verbal) to communicate effectively and professionally

Nice To Haves

• Advanced studies or similar experience and/or focused degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, Information Systems or a related field is preferred
• APICS/ASCM, Project Management (PMP, FPX, or similar), Lean/Six Sigma, Prosci, or comparable certifications are preferred
• Experience in the Americas region and working across the United States and Latin America
• Experience with advanced planning and enterprise platforms such as OMP, Anaplan, SAP, JDE, or similar solutions
• Experience with process governance, fit-gap assessment, testing, deployment, hypercare, process mining, adoption measurement, or value realization
• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, project/program management or structured change-management methodologies
• Experience applying digital, analytics, automation, or AI capabilities to planning processes
• Proficiency preferred in Spanish or Portuguese

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary point of contact between GPEX and Americas RDS for regional integration strategies, priorities, and decisions related to planning processes and capabilities.
• Partner with Regional Leadership and DRIs to shape, prioritize, and maintain an integrated regional process and capability roadmap aligned with global strategy and business priorities.
• Lead the Americas Regional Council, establishing a clear cadence, agenda, decision log, action tracking, and critical path for planning initiatives, risks, and resource needs.
• Provide concise, timely insight to regional and global leadership on portfolio status, outcomes, dependencies, risks, decisions, and support required.
• Represent regional requirements in global governance and planning cycles, while ensuring global standards, design principles, and strategic intent are understood and upheld across the region.
• Manage cross-process implications and sequencing so that changes are implemented as an integrated business solution rather than as isolated process or technology deployments.
• Collaborate with GPMs, BPOs, TPOs, KUs and Learning & Development to deploy global processes, tools, and capabilities across the Americas, including project kickoff, regional requirements, fit-gap assessment, release planning, deployment, and hypercare.
• Lead collection and synthesis of regional business requirements and point-of-contact insights; distinguish critical business needs from local preferences and translate them into actionable global or regional requirements.
• Coordinate regional readiness across stakeholders, resources, data, testing, training, communications, cutover, and adoption while ensuring variances from global standards are documented, governed, risk-assessed, and periodically reviewed.
• Lead region-specific initiatives that are not intended for global scale, including business justification, governance, deployment, change management, and continuous improvement.
• Identify region-originated practices or solutions with global value and partner with GPMs to assess scalability, standardization, and transfer into the global roadmap.
• Build a regional change and adoption strategy for new planning processes, digital products, and ways of working, in partnership with RDS Leadership and functional change networks.
• Drive stakeholder engagement, communications, and best-practice sharing across leadership, practitioners, and key-user communities while creating feedback loops that improve deployment approaches and planning standards.
• Monitor implementation progress, process adherence, adoption, capability maturity, and realized value; initiate corrective actions where outcomes are at risk.
• Facilitate best-practice sharing within the Americas and across regions, and create feedback loops that improve global standards and deployment approaches.
• Participate in business forums and real operating scenarios to understand regional challenges, provide hands-on support, and promote simplification, standardization, automation, and data-driven decision-making.
• Connect global Communities of Practice with regional practitioners by sharing regional updates and challenges, collecting feedback, tracking agreed actions, and encouraging active participation.
• Build trusted relationships across Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Quality, JJT, and other functions to align partner interests and facilitate fact-based decisions across countries, functions, and organizational levels.
• Influence without direct authority, align diverse customer interests and facilitate fact-based decisions across countries, functions, and organizational levels.
• Provide mentorship and thought leadership to project teams, key users, and planning practitioners, strengthening regional process ownership and change capability.
• Serve as backup to the relevant GPM for IBP and Demand Planning activities, and provide continuity during planned absences or priority initiatives.

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• 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/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior