Regional Franchise Planner

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.

The Regional Planner, EMEA is responsible for carrying out regional demand & deployment planning processes for medical business in the 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.

Based in Pune, 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.

Major Duties & Responsibilities
- 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.
- Coordinate and Lead demand-supply handover with country/cluster plan teams.
- Aggregate country/cluster demand to create regional demand overview and analyse business/financial plans (BP/FP) and demand plans (DP) gaps.
- Coordinate with Global Plan for timely product availability/service levels in the countries and communicate availability information on a weekly basis.
- Ensure business continuity by managing the supply disruptions and demand surges by ensuring timely escalation for significant supply disruptions.
- Manage the inventory and inventory health targets (slow and obsolete inventory).
- Operate and coordinates the entire Network Planning process to ensure the product availability for the franchise-country.
- Manage Master and Transactional data for ensuring product availability for franchise-country.
- Support product portfolio optimization, asset reconfiguration projects, which has potential impact on product availability and business continuity in the region.
- Operates ERP and Advanced Planning Systems and Tools

**Qualifications**:
Qualifications:
Education: MBA OR Bachelor’s degree in BTech

Required Years of Related Experience: 2+ years of relevant experience.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (Uncompromised requirements for the role):

- Experienced ERP & Planning Systems User
- Supply Chain experience in the Medical or Pharmaceutical Industry
- Strong analytical skills and an aptitude for planning
- Ability to use advanced statistical techniques.
- Attention to detail and ability to collaborate virtually.
- Proficient in MS Office including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

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