Vice President, Global Supply Chain Planning, Electrophysiology

Johnson & Johnson • Irvine, CA

1d • $199,000 - $366,850

About The Position

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: Enterprise Management Job Sub Function: Supply Chain Management Job Category: Professional All Job Posting Locations: Irvine, California, United States of America Job Description: Johnson & Johnson MedTech Electrophysiology is recruiting for a Vice President, Global Supply Chain Planning located in Irvine, CA. The Vice President, Electrophysiology Plan is responsible for developing and leading the end-to-end strategic direction of the Electrophysiology Supply Chain Plan organization to drive best-in-class supply chain processes. This role covers 3 main areas of responsibility: drive transformational change (e.g., advancing digital capabilities), orchestrate E2E planning across functions and franchise platforms while demonstrating strong business acumen, and lead the operational/transactional day-to-day foundational planning activities. This includes functional responsibility for demand planning (consolidation regional demand planning at global level), supply planning, global sales and operations planning processes, capacity planning, inventory management and systems integration across the Franchise. This leader will also serve as an active member of the Electrophysiology Franchise Leadership Team where they will be a key contributor of optimizing the Supply Chain from a service and working capital perspective while contributing to the J&J strategies for the function.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree or equivalent highly preferred
• Minimum 12 years’ experience in a complex Supply Chain environment, including in multiple of the following functional areas production, planning, supply chain, quality, procurement, new products, supply chain strategy
• Advanced understanding of end-to-end supply chain, preferably in Medical Device Industry with advanced financial understanding
• Strong international experience
• Understanding of statutory and regulatory requirements (e.g., GMP, GDP practices)
• Track record of influencing the external environment based on knowledge of social, political, regulatory, and economic issues affecting businesses domestically and globally
• Articulating a vision, engaging, and mobilizing employees around that vision, and delivering superior value
• Driving long-term, profitable, and sustainable growth in multiple functions, businesses, sectors and markets
• Leading people through organizational uncertainty or key change initiative such as merger, acquisition, divesture, or restructuring
• Identifying new partnership opportunities, determining optimal relationship conditions/model (licensing, co-promotion, acquisition), and executing these relationships
• Creating and sustaining a culture of quality and compliance that encourages open communication, reporting noncompliant actions, taking corrective action and holding self/others accountable
• Lead large transformation efforts within the segment supply chain organization aligned with the global supply chain strategy.
• Implement global standards while maintaining a strong regional execution and connection with the business.
• Create, support, and reinforce an externally focused culture that instills best practices through benchmarking and understanding customer needs
• Instill greater rigor in measures of productivity, customer intimacy, and innovation
• Ensure full understanding of customer needs and requirements; increase time spent with customers
• Align with internal business partners to execute deliverables and anticipate future customer needs
• High tolerance for ambiguity in a complex environment. Makes the complex clear and easily understood by others.
• Financial, moral, personal integrity and the values that inspire trust in the organization.
• Energy, enthusiasm, commitment, courage and entrepreneurial excitement. Must be able to generate enthusiasm for best-in-class performance through the clear personal passion to be the best in these areas.
• Strong relationship development, conflict resolution, and team building instincts, with the ability to build partnerships both internally and externally.
• Makes the customer central to all thinking.
• Ability to fit in well culturally in a complex organization.

Nice To Haves

• ERP system (SAP/JDE/Blue Yonder, Signify) knowledge and practical application would be an asset

Responsibilities

• Ensure a powerful and inspiring vision and strategy aligned to the Electrophysiology and Supply Chain needs
• Develop, communicate, and reinforce an inspiring vision and strategy to deliver best in class e2e planning capabilities to support the Electrophysiology business.
• Deliver significantly improved performance in supply reliability, and cash optimization
• Ensure strong partnership and collaboration with key stakeholders across the Supply Chain and Commercial teams to translate customer needs to product requirements, Make, Source, External Operations, Quality, Deliver, New Product Development teams: Launch management and Scenario planning, the MD SC Planning team and the Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain Planning of product needs to meet customer demand in an efficient and effective global operation with strong emphasis on continuous improvement in performance.
• Deliver outstanding Reliable Supply (Service) with appropriate metrics e.g., OTIF@D/S/A.
• Ensure rapid response to events and issues, with analysis to assess root cause
• Ensure optimal cash management of Inventory ($ and DOS), minimize E&O, SLOB
• Drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy (MAPE / Bias) linked to Sales and Financial forecasts
• Implement strong focus on agility with appropriate metrics to show flexibility and responsiveness, particularly on strategic products.
• Partner with enterprise plan leaders to share and leverage resource, benchmarks, and best practices
• Ensure planning integration for acquisitions to align Electrophysiology /MD/J&J operating model rapidly (and provide appropriate support in reverse for divestitures).
• Ensure data accuracy and visibility, through robust MDM processes.
• Build and deploy “best in class” processes
• Translate customer needs flawlessly - with speed - to supply points, inclusive of patients, HCP’s, hospitals, distributors commercial leadership and sales force.
• Drive process standardization based on best practices and emphasis on the SCOR model.
• Ensure platform focused Service and Inventory management processes to drive e2e accountability with the E2E platform leaders on short-, medium- and long-term performance measures
• Ensure clear communication and updates on event management. Be responsible for communicating business related issues or opportunities to all stake holders from sales force to senior management level as needed
• Enable “best in class” S&OP processes supporting local needs through to executive engagement and alignment.
• Enable PMR (portfolio management review) and LCM (life cycle management) processes to ensure an optimal product portfolio, with insights to drive GP improvement.
• Ensure strong strategic forecasting, integrated to the LRFP’s and updated at least twice annually, is in place for all platforms, built on strong partnership with commercial
• Ensure strategic capacity planning to provide appropriate visibility to long term growth to enable sufficient production capacity to fulfill the market requirements over the LRFP Plan and deliver the annual BP and subsequent quarterly updates to meet and exceed business requirements
• Partner closely with Deliver on Customer Order Management and effective, efficient demand fulfillments.
• Partner with the franchise SC functions, Deliver and Commercial to ensure a clear roadmap for inventory management and strong integration with the plan processes.
• Partner with commercial on long term demand planning, strategic forecasts to ensure strategic capacity planning is in place
• Provide strong and timely demand signals to External Operations and Suppliers.
• Ensure robust New Product Launch planning to meet reliability needs and provide flexibility whilst minimizing inventory, in collaboration with the product management team and other functions (Make, Source, Ext Ops,).
• Performs proper inventory and replenishment management in order to balance the level of inventory and reduce obsolete stock, while optimizing service, balanced against uncertainties in the supply chain
• Provide Data and Analytics capability to generate insights on performance and improvement opportunities.
• Collaborate with the SI&D team to ensure BCP, SC resiliency and Network optimization
• Ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition.
• Take responsivity for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
• Advance and leverage the latest technology
• Ensure the latest understanding of technology and how it can be implemented to drive improved customer performance.
• CSS business owner for translation of planning capability needs, working with the Digital Transformation team to ensure a clear strategy and roadmap for ERP systems (transcend), advanced planning systems (Blue Yonder, Signify), and other support systems and digital capabilities.
• Build a strategic vision and roadmap for digital solutions to accelerate capability partnering with the MDSC strategy and customer solutions teams.
• Drive automation of processes, where possible, using the latest digital technologies
• Partner with commercial to drive innovation in business models and customer connectivity.
• Ensure strong external focus and benchmarking to bring new perspectives and insights - working with J&J SC to leverage wherever possible.
• Define key planning functionality requirements and manage the interface with the IT organization to ensure correct priority is given for key IT developments within the planning area.
• Advance technology to improve visibility and asset performance end to end where applicable
• Ensure a holistic, impactful, operating model that delivers value
• Enable an outstanding customer centric, performance driven, plan capability
• Seek organization leverage and operating model efficiency – with a standardized approach bringing alignment across the planning Electrophysiology franchise team and the Regions to deliver best practices
• Ensure the highest levels of E2E teamwork and collaboration with the customer at the center
• Develop and optimize local capabilities to support growth (e.g. China) or scale back and leverage as needed.
• Drive cross country, region and sector sharing of best practices.
• Recruit and develop outstanding talent
• Ensure the recruitment and development of outstanding talent
• Ensure robust succession planning process and build strong talent pipelines, with clarity and relentless focus on development plans to accelerate talent capabilities
• Accelerate diverse talent representation, especially female and African American leadership, with a stronger pipeline to represent the populations we serve
• Put emphasis health and wellbeing and support with ongoing education to deliver work life harmony, to maximize energy levels across the team
• Ensure strong training and education processes for all e2e planning, management and support capabilities
• Enable talent leverage across the enterprise
• Build a customer focused winning culture
• Build a credo focused culture, with the customer at the center - based on clear purpose supporting J&J, Electrophysiology and Medical Devices
• Ensure a culture of inclusivity to enable all talent to bring their whole self to work and engage fully with their best energy
• Ensure teamwork that emphasizes the value of diversity in building the best capability
• Instill a winning spirit to serve customers and grow products and solutions that improve the health of humanity.
• Value servant leadership and instill those principles across the organization
• Build open, transparent and objective communications direct to the sales force and commercial leaders to enable e2e effectiveness and customer trust
• Build caring interdependent teamwork, with resilience and renewal to provide strong support - particularly for those individuals under consistent pressure

Benefits

• Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
• For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees