Regional Franchise Planner

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Pune, Maharashtra, India

The Regional Franchise Planner is responsible for demand and deployment planning for the Medical business in the EMEA region, collaborating with global and country supply chain teams to achieve business goals. This role involves providing statistical forecast input, coordinating demand-supply handovers, ensuring product availability, managing inventory, and operating planning systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide statistical forecast input for country/cluster demand planning process and manage business forecasts over 12/24 months horizon for strategic planning and manufacturing / capacity planning.
  2. Coordinate and Lead demand-supply handover with country/cluster plan teams.
  3. Aggregate country/cluster demand to create regional demand overview and analyze business/financial plans (BP/FP) and demand plans (DP) gaps.
  4. Coordinate with Global Plan for timely product availability/service levels in the countries and communicate availability information on a weekly basis.
  5. Ensure business continuity by managing the supply disruptions and demand surges by ensuring timely escalation for significant supply disruptions.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree
  • 2+ years of relevant experience
  • Experienced ERP & Planning Systems user
  • Supply chain experience in medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
  • Fundamentals of Supply Chain
  • Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for planning.
  • Ability to use advance statistical techniques
  • Accuracy with attention to detail
  • Ability to collaborate with virtual teams
  • Can drive continuous process improvements.
  • Proficient user of MS Office, Excel, Word, Powerpoint
  • Proficient user of SAP/ APS

Nice to have

  • Master in Business Administration
  • Green Belt six-sigma certification
  • APICS Certification
  • Analytical Reasoning
  • Business Agility
  • Business Behavior
  • Business Data Analysis
  • Business Process Management (BPM)
  • Coaching
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Data Gathering and Analysis
  • Data Savvy
  • Demand Planning
  • Facilitation
  • Industry Analysis
  • Manufacturing Flow Management
  • Market Research
  • Problem Solving
  • Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP)
  • Strategic Analysis
  • Supply Planning