Americas Flow Optimization Lead

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Deliver

Job Sub Function:

Deliver Excellence

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

California (Any City), Florida (Any City), Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, United States of America, New Jersey (Any City), Pennsylvania (Any City), Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Texas (Any City)

Job Description:

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.

This role can be located at a Johnson & Johnson site within the United States (NJ, PA, CA, FL, TX, or  Guaynabo, Puerto Rico), or internationally in Markham Canada, or São Paulo, Brazil.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

US - Requisition Number: R-085621

São Paulo, Brazil - Requisition Number: R-085741

Markham Canada - Requisition Number: R-085742

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

Key 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 pro