Senior Manager, GPEX Regional Process Integration Leader, Americas

Senior Manager, Global Planning Excellence (GPEX) Regional Process Integration Leader (RPIL), Americas

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.

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Manager, Global Planning Excellence (GPEX) Regional Process Integration Leader (RPIL), Americas. This hybrid position will be located in Titusville, New Jersey (USA). Alternate hybrid locations may be considered at other J&J sites such as:
Guaynabo, Puerto Rico or São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil).

The Senior Manager RPIL for Americas serves as the primary integration point between GPEX and Regional Demand & Supply across the Americas. This role translates global planning strategy into regional execution, brings regional business requirements and insights into global process and technology roadmaps, and drives cross-process priorities across demand and supply planning. This role supports planning capabilities across Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Demand Planning, New Product Introduction (NPI) and Launch Planning, Inventory and Slow-Moving & Obsolete Inventory (SLOB) Management, Planning Performance Management, Supply Network Planning, and related end-to-end planning processes.

The RPIL combines strategic influence with hands-on regional deployment, partnering with Regional Leadership, Regional Directly Responsible Individuals (DRIs), Global Process Managers (GPMs), Business Process Owners (BPOs), Technology Product Owners (TPOs), Key Users (KUs), Learning & Development, Finance, Commercial, JJT, and other partners to deploy global standards, lead region-specific initiatives, handle adoption, and deliver measurable business outcomes. The Americas RPIL support diverse regional, market, operating-model, and capability needs across North America and LATAM while maintaining alignment to global standards.

Regional Strategy, Integration, & Governance

• Act as the primary point of contact between GPEX and Americas RDS for regional integration strategies, priorities, and decisions related to planning processes and capabilities.
• Partner with Regional Leadership and DRIs to shape, prioritize, and maintain an integrated regional process and capability roadmap aligned with global strategy and business priorities.
• Lead the Americas Regional Council, establishing a clear cadence, agenda, decision log, action tracking, and critical path for planning initiatives, risks, and resource needs.
• Provide concise, timely insight to regional and global leadership on portfolio status, outcomes, dependencies, risks, decisions, and support required.
• Represent regional requirements in global governance and planning cycles, while ensuring global standards, design principles, and strategic intent are understood and upheld across the region.
• Manage cross-process implications and sequencing so that changes are implemented as an integrated business solution rather than as isolated process or technology deployments.

Process & Capability Deployment

• Collaborate with GPMs, BPOs, TPOs, KUs and Learning & Development to deploy global processes, tools, and capabilities across the Americas, including project kickoff, regional requirements, fit-gap assessment, release planning, deployment, and hypercare.
• Lead collection and synthesis of regional business requirements and point-of-contact insights; distinguish critical business needs from local preferences and translate them into actionable global or regional requirements.
• Coordinate regional readiness across stakeholders, resources, data, testing, training, communications, cutover, and adoption while ensuring variances from global standards are documented, governed, risk-assessed, and periodically reviewed.
• Lead region-specific initiatives…