Regional Franchise Planner

**Job Function**:
Supply Chain Planning
**Job Sub Function**:
Integrated Business Planning
**Job Category**:
Professional
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Pune, Maharashtra, India

**Regional Franchise Planner**

**Pune**:
Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years. We embrace research and science - bringing creative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Every day, our more than 130,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

At Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies, we are using our breadth, scale and experience to reinvent the way healthcare is delivered and help people live longer, healthier lives.

In a radically changing environment, we are making connections across science and technology to combine our own expertise in surgery, orthopedics, vision and interventional solutions with the big ideas of others to design and deliver physician and patient-centric products and solutions.

As pioneers in medical devices, we continually focus on elevating the standard of care—working to expand patient access, improve outcomes, reduce health system costs and drive value. We create smart, people-centered healthcare to help the patients we serve recover faster and live longer and more vibrantly.
**Johnson & Johnson Medical is recruiting for a Senior EMEA Supply Chain Analyst, located in Pune.

The Senior EMEA Supply Chain Analyst is responsible for carrying out regional demand & deployment planning processes for Medical business in the EMEA region. This individual will work in close collaboration with global plan and country/cluster supply chain teams to ensure attainment of aligned business goals and objectives.

This position will be responsible for providing statistical forecast input, coordinating demand -supply handover with clusters Supply Chain teams, ensuring timely product and instrument availability by coordinating with global Plan team and weekly /monthly customer service updates.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Will be responsible to support setting up Pune as a EMEA planning hub
- Is responsible for carrying out the demand & deployment planning for Medical business in EMEA region.
- Provide statistical forecast input for country/cluster demand planning process and manage business forecasts over 12/24 months horizon for manufacturing / capacity planning.
- Ensure alignment between global, regional, and local IBP touchpoints, including demand handoff processes.
- Coordinate with Global Plan for timely product availability/service levels in the countries and communicate availability information on a weekly basis
- Define and implement strategies to improve forecast accuracy, reduce errors, and optimize customer service and inventory metrics.
- Enhance statistical forecasting capabilities and data-driven insights through sophisticated analytics, including machine learning.
- Participate in New Product Introduction (NPI) and portfolio optimization processes, owning key steps.
- Conduct scenario-based analyses to assess launch options and develop contingency plans.
- Manage the inventory and inventory health targets (slow and obsolete inventory).
- Participate in supply chain planning processes, including setting safety stock levels, monitoring inventory, and identifying reduction opportunities.
- Communicate supply issues, root causes, corrective actions, and recovery timelines to partners (commercial, supply chain)
- Manage Master and Transactional data for ensuring product availability for franchise-country
- Operates ERP and Advanced Planning Systems and Tools

**Leadership Profile**:
We are seeking a highly analytical and proactive individual with strong communication skills to join our team as a Supply Chain Analyst. Must be highly motivated self starter and confident to independently work in a remote team set up in CET time zone and occasionally be available to accommodate PST
- Integrity & Credo based Actions
- Results & Performance Driven
- Sense of urgency
- Intellectual Curiosity
- Prudent Risk Taking
- Collaboration & Teaming
- Self-Awareness & Adaptability

**Education**:
**Essential**:

- Bachelor's degree

**Desirable**:

- Master in Business Administration
- Green Belt six-sigma certification
- APICS Certification

**Knowledge**
- 2+ years of relevant experience

**- Experienced ERP & Planning Systems user**:

- Supply chain experience in medical device or pharmaceutical industry.

**Skills**:

- Excellent communication skills and ability to navigate complex matrix organization
- Fundamentals of Supply Chain
- Strong analytical skills and an interest 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, W