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**Job Function: **
Supply Chain Planning
**Job Sub Function: **
End-to-End Planning
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Diegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, Madrid, Spain, Milano, Italy, Umkirch, Germany, Zuchwil, Switzerland
Job Description:
**Johnson & Johnson MedTech Orthopaedics are seeking a **Senior Director, Supply Chain – EMEA Cluster Leader.
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.
Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.
About Orthopaedics
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 the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
Role Overview
The** Senior Director, Supply Chain – EMEA Cluster Leader **is responsible for leading the end‑to‑end supply chain across a strategically critical EMEA cluster, encompassing Germany, Iberia, Benelux, CEE + SAT, Italy, Russia, Greece and Israel markets.
This role provides enterprise leadership across in‑market supply chain teams and partners closely with the EMEA Cluster Commercial Vice President to enable business performance, growth, and customer outcomes. The role carries full accountability for supply chain execution, asset deployment and utilization, customer service and operations, and reliable delivery to end customers.
A core member of the regional leadership team, the Cluster Leader translates business strategy into supply chain plans, delivers insights into demand and capacity dynamics, and ensures optimal cost‑to‑serve while meeting or exceeding customer expectations.
Key Responsibilities
End‑to‑End Supply Chain Leadership
- Own and lead the end‑to‑end supply chain across the EMEA cluster, from demand shaping and asset strategy through to customer delivery and service execution.
- Provide functional leadership to in‑market Supply Chain Leaders, covering:
- Asset installation and utilization
- Customer service and operations
- Order fulfilment and delivery execution
- Ensure consistent, high‑performance supply chain standards across diverse markets and operating models.
Business Partnership & IBP Leadership
- Partner closely with the EMEA Commercial Vice President and market leadership teams to:
- Understand business strategy, growth drivers, and market‑specific priorities
- Translate commercial ambition into executable supply chain plans
- Play a critical role in Integrated Business Planning (IBP) by:
- Providing insights into demand signals, capacity constraints, and risk/opportunity trade‑offs
- Shaping and challenging demand plans to support growth while protecting service and cost performance
- Act as a trusted advisor to commercial and regional leaders on supply chain implications of market decisions.
Asset Strategy, Growth & Enablement
- Lead cluster‑wide strategies for:
- Asset efficiency and utilization
- New asset installation and deployment planning
- New Product Introductions (NPIs) and other growth enablers
- Life cycle management within the portfolio
- Ensure capital and asset deployment decisions are aligned to demand evolution, customer needs, and long‑term business strategy.
- Drive standardization and best‑practice sharing across markets to accelerate time‑to‑value.
Cost Optimization & Service Excellence
- Lead initiatives to optimize the end‑to‑end cost‑to‑serve while maintaining or improving customer service levels.
- Identify structural cost improvement opportunities across logistics, operations, asset usage, and service models.
- Balance service, growth, and cost trade‑offs to deliver optimal outcomes for both customers and the enterprise.
Global Platform & Cross‑Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Global Supply Chain and Platform teams to:
- Drive improvements in collaboration, visibility, and execution
- Resolve systemic issues and remove recurring constraints
- Influence global capabilities, tools, and standards based on regional needs
- Act as the EMEA cluster voice in global forums, ensuring regional priorities are represented and addressed.
People Leadership & Capability Building
- Lead, coach, and develop senior in‑market supply chain leaders, building a strong, succession‑ready talent pipeline.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus across the cluster.
- Drive engagement and alignment across geographically and culturally diverse teams.
Key Qualifications & Experience
Required Qualifications
- +10 years senior leadership experience in end‑to‑end supply chain management within complex, multi‑country environments.
- Proven experience leading regional or cluster‑level supply chains within EMEA.
- Strong experience partnering with commercial leaders and influencing enterprise‑level decision making.
- Demonstrated leadership in Integrated Business Planning (IBP), including demand planning, capacity management, and risk/opportunity trade‑off management.
- Experience operating effectively within matrixed, global organizations.
Skills & Capabilities
- Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business strategy into executable supply chain plans.
- Deep understanding of demand planning, capacity management, and asset utilization.
- Strong financial acumen, with the ability to balance growth, service, and cost trade‑offs.
- Highly effective communicator and influencer at executive level.
- Resilient, decisive leader with the ability to operate in ambiguity and complexity.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience within MedTech and/or Orthopaedics sectors.
- Demonstrated success driving asset strategy, lifecycle management, and capital deployment decisions at scale.
- Experience leading supply chain organizations across culturally and operationally diverse geographies.
- Track record of influencing global platforms, standards, and capabilities based on regional business needs.
What Success Looks Like
- Reliable, scalable supply chain performance that enables growth across the EMEA cluster
- Strong commercial partnership with proactive, insight‑driven contribution to business planning
- Optimized asset utilization and cost‑to‑serve, supporting improved profitability
- Engaged, high‑performing supply chain leadership teams across all markets
- Enhanced collaboration and execution effectiveness with global platforms
**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Differential Insights, Distribution Resource Planning (DRP), Financial Competence, Inventory Optimization, Manufacturing Flow Management, Materials Handling, Mentorship, Organizing, Procurement Policies, Program Management, Representing, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain, Supply Planning