Director, Global Supply Planning Process

Job Category

People Leader

Supply Chain Planning

Planning Strategy & Capabilities

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico;
Gurabo, Puerto Rico;
Horsham, Pennsylvania;
Raritan, New Jersey;
Titusville, New Jersey

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine Supply Chain is seeking a Director, Global Supply Planning Process Standards & Improvement to lead the design, standardization, governance, and continuous improvement of critical global planning processes.

This role focuses on the process dimension of the organization, working in close partnership with people and technology teams to drive standardization, scalability, operational excellence, and business value across the global PLAN organization.

The successful candidate will serve as the global process owner for key planning processes and play a pivotal leadership role in shaping future planning capabilities, advancing process maturity, and ensuring alignment across the end‑to‑end supply planning network that supports more than $65B in sales, $4.5B in global net inventory, 450+ end users, 18 manufacturing locations, 97 network distribution centers, and 150 countries served.

The Director Global Supply Planning Process Standards and Improvement is focused on the process aspect of the organization in close collaboration with people and technology partners.

• Process owner for the following PLAN processes:
  Supply Network Planning, Production Planning (including internal and external manufacturing processes), E2E Planning, and Strategic Capacity Management (Long‑Range Capacity Planning).
• Realizes value through process standardization and improvement, in partnership with other functional excellence teams and by integration across all planning areas.
• Assesses process maturity on a regular basis to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Monitors process adherence and defines corrective actions in case of deviations.
• Maintains an up‑to‑date set of process documentation and process charts that reflect the actual process.

Process Standardization and Governance

• Ensures standard approaches across all processes in scope from a methodology and documentation perspective.
• Standardizes and improves planning processes based on functional expertise, external best practices, and planning standards.
• Designs and establishes new processes, as required, for new modalities and emerging technologies that warrant deviation or modification of standard processes.
• Sets up robust infrastructure to support ongoing process governance and integrity, reporting, and data accuracy.
• Ensures end‑to‑end consistency and process alignment across all PLAN functions including aligned roles and responsibilities across sub‑functions.

Performance Management and Continuous Improvement

• Accountable for the regular process performance measurement to track business performance, process adherence, maturity gaps, and continuous improvement.
• Maintains improvement roadmaps for the different processes in scope as input to the overall PLAN roadmap and leads initiatives in scope.
• Establishes a network of practitioners to ensure identification and adoption of best practices and supports business objectives through effective design and implementation of projects, and continuous improvement.
• Collaborates with the PLAN Technology pillar to identify opportunities for innovation, develop solutions, project proposals and implementation plans.

Analytics, Technology and Planning Excellence

• Designs and develops a holistic set of KPIs, dashboards, and reporting cubes in partnership with the Analytics team that reflect the most up‑to‑date business needs – ensuring accuracy, regionally consistent deployment, user‑friendly access, and regular reviews and updates.
• Collaborates with Enterprise Planning, Med Tech Planning Excellence, Supply Chain IT, and digital teams to prioritize the PLAN technology roadmap.
• Improves and maintains PLAN competencies and skills by working closely with the Training team, developing training and certification plans, and deploying/facilitating programs on a regular basis.

Leadership and Talent Development

• Actively manages and…