Regional Demand Planner

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:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Demand Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Irvine, California, United States of America, Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

 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/

About MedTech

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

The Regional Demand Planner is responsible for the demand planning process for their regional business, supporting the monthly forecasting cycle and Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process with the required collaboration and metrics to develop an accurate monthly consensus forecast. The Demand Planner will maintain close relationships with customer facing functions to understand underlying demand trends and insights around market intelligence. They will drive alignment to the monthly forecast through market demand review and support communication of the demand plan and insights through the Organization.

This individual will serve as a leader in the Americas Planning organization, partnering with business partners to collect, analyze, consolidate, and report data and insights to improve the decision-making process and drive process maturity and forecast accuracy improvement.

Knowledge Skills and Capabilities:

• Ability to develop, coach, and lead strong collaborative teams in the execution, strategies, and realization of departmental and company goals.
• Ability to communicate information and insights clearly, making the complex clear and compelling to all levels of the organization in both written & oral forms.
• Ability to influence Director and VP Levels within the organization (Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain).
• Demonstrates strong decision-making ability in a multiple scenario environment.
• Has strong business acumen, understand the business; portfolio, markets, customers, challenges and demands.
• Applies business and financial knowledge to drive decisions and key outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to handle and manipulate large amounts of data and convert to clear business insights.

Supply Chain Demand Planning – Forecasting, Analytics, and Insights

• Leads demand planning teams to achieve expected forecast accuracy (MAPE, BIAS) through demand sensing and shaping, considering statistical models and market intelli