Senior 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:

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

J&J MedTech Surgery has made significant contributions to surgery for more than 60 years from creating the first sutures, to revolutionizing surgery with minimally invasive procedures. Our continuing dedication to Shape the Future of Surgery is built on our commitment to help address the world's most pressing health care issues and improve and save more lives. Through Ethicon's surgical technologies and solutions including sutures, staplers, energy devices, trocars and hemostats and our commitment to treat serious medical conditions like obesity and cancer worldwide, we deliver innovation to make a life-changing impact. For more information, visit www.ethicon.com (http://www.ethicon.com).

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 

Here at J&J Medtech Surgery we aspire to shape the future of Surgery. We are transforming to enhance competitiveness in the rapidly evolving surgical landscape by optimizing how we play in our core markets and accelerating our entry into higher growth/higher innovation areas.

Reporting to the US Regional Planning Sr. Manager, the US Regional Senior Demand Planner is responsible for leading US Demand Planning and the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process. Other responsibilities include business planning, coordinating US inventory strategy and planning activities, driving US service management and product allocations, all aiming to deliver on key performance indicators including forecast accuracy, customer service, and inventory. The Senior Demand Planner will also identify, lead, and participate in digital initiatives that improve efficiency and data quality while enabling deeper customer and market insights.

Under supervision of the US Regional Planning Sr. Manager and in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws/regulations and Corporate Johnson & Johnson, procedures and guidelines, this position:

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Demand Planning for Surgery specific platforms within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process with continuous improvements

• Collaborate with functions such as Sales, Marketing, Commercial Operations, and Finance to identify and incorporate market intelligence (events) into the demand forecast and balance with statistical forecast model to achieve maximum accuracy

• Responsible for achieving forecast accuracy benchmarks for mean absolute percentage error (MAPE) and aggregate forecast accuracy (Bias) via continuous improvement and solutions with relevant stakeholders

• Develop detailed execution plans and manage demand plans for new product introductions and life cycle management as required and aligned with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain

• Provide analytical and technical supply chain support for the assigned product portfolio as well as US Surgery.

• Effectively communicate accurate product availability information to customers and commercial partners with continuous improvement to the communication capabilities and process

• Ensure that demand planning, IBP, and business planning processes align with overall global processes and objectives

• Act as single point of contact for the US business for demand / forecast related activities for the sub franchise

• Clearly communicate with key stakeholders accordingly – including (but not limited to) Sales, Marketing, Commercial Ope