Americas Regional Plan Manager

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 Med Tech, 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.

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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

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for an Americas Regional Plan Manager to join our Vision Care team in Jacksonville, FL or Irvine, CA.

About Vision

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

Purpose:

The Americas Regional Plan Manager will be supporting regional plan and partnering across key functions to support the monthly IBP process by facilitating aligned decision making for demand, supply, inventory, portfolio strategies, strategic projects, and the resulting financial impact.

This individual will act as a leader in the Americas Planning organization, collaborating with commercial and marketing business partners to develop new product introduction (NPI) and life cycle management (LCM) strategy while driving opportunities for process improvement.

• Drive NPIs and LCM strategy execution and including coordination with Regional Marketing team and Supply chain functions, to support supply and demand forecast readiness.

• Supports advancement of IBP Planning Capabilities, leading areas that will enable growth, improve Customer Experience, and drive E2E Supply Chain efficiencies.

• Has strong business acuity, understand the business; portfolio, markets, customers, challenges and demands.

• Enable Plan to deliver or improve inventory targets by influencing forecast measures and finding ways to minimize Slob.

• Consignment reporting and analytics in support of inventory optimization

• Ability to influence Director and VP Levels within the organization (Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain) and in a multi‑stakeholder environment.

• Apply business and financial knowledge to drive decisions and key outcomes, demonstrating strong decision‑making ability in a multiple scenario environment.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to handle and manipulate large amounts of data and convert to clear business information.

• Responsible for influencing large scale regional and global teams to collect, analyze, consolidate, and report key data, improving the decision‑making process to bridge gaps vs. the financial plan and drive profitable trade‑off decisions where required.

• Conducts analytics to address business problems with an end‑to‑end mentality.

• Collaborates with multi‑functional teams to prioritize Plan technology roadmaps for Vision.

• Leads ongoing NPI and LCM process governance, regularly monitoring process integrity and compliance.

• University bachelor’s degree or equivalent required. MBA preferred.

• +5 years of related experience

• Experience with ERP (SAP) & Planning Systems (OMP) is preferred

• Experience with Supply Chain, Commercial/Marketing, Finance preferred.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage large amounts of data to drive insights

• Strong collaboration, and influencing skills in a…