Sr. Director Planning Systems and Processes

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Planning Strategy & Capabilities

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Zuchwil, Switzerland

Job Description:

Senior Director, Planning Systems & Processes

Locations: Approved DePuy Synthes Office Locations in USA and Europe

 

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 Orthopedics? Our Orthopedics 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

 

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

 

USA (MA, PA, FL, IN) - Requisition Number: R-102161

Leeds, UK - Requisition Number: R-103763

Zuchwil, Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-103755

Diegem, Belgium and Cork, Ireland - Requisition Number:R-103780

 

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

 

Purpose:

 

We are searching for the best talent to join our Orthopedic team as Senior Director, Planning Systems & Processes.

The Senior Director, Planning Systems & Processes is the enterprise business leader accountable for defining and executing the global strategy, operating model, governance, and transformation roadmap for Supply Chain Planning systems, data, and standardized end-to-end processes across DPS. The role owns the business vision and value realization for Advanced Planning Systems (APS), the planning implications of Company Separation, and the transition from a fragmented application and ERP landscape to one integrated APS and one ERP-enabled planning model.

The Senior Director will partner with senior Planning, Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Digital, IT, Quality, and regional and site leaders to align investment priorities, simplify processes, establish common data and design standards, and deliver scalable capabilities that improve service, inventory, agility, productivity, and decision quality. This leader will provide executive sponsorship and business governance from strategy and solution selection through deployment, adoption, stabilization, and continuous improvement, while protecting operational continuity and regulatory compliance. The role will build and lead a high-performing global organization of process owners, product owners, program leaders, and system subject matter experts and will establish the foundation for advanced analytics, AI-enabled decision support, and the longer-term aspiration of autonomous planning.

The role will report to the Vice President, Supply Chain Planning, DPS, and will serve as a senior member of the Global Planning Leadership Team and as the principal business partner to SC&O Systems and Digital Enablement and IT for planning transformation.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Set and own the multi-year global strategy, target architecture, investment roadmap, and value case for Planning Systems & Processes, aligned with the DPS business and Supply Chain strategies.
• Lead the business selection, design, implementation, and adoption of a single enterprise APS, ensuring demand, supply, inventory, distribution, capacity, scenario-planning, exception-management, and analytics capabilities support the future operating model.
• Partner with ERP leadership to define planning requirements and sequence the transition to one ERP, ensuring APS and ERP design decisions, master data, interfaces, controls, and deployment waves operate as an integrated end-to-end solution.
• Provide executive business leadership for Company Separation across all core planning systems and business-developed applications; own readiness criteria, risk escalation, contingency planning, cutover governance, and business sign-off for Day 1 and subsequent transition milestones.
• Establish global process ownership and governance for demand planning, supply planning, production planning, distribution requirements planning, inventory planning, capacity planning, and associated planning master data.
• Standardize, simplify, and document end-to-end planning processes across platforms, regions, markets, and sites, resolving local deviations and control gaps that would prevent successful migration to one APS and one ERP.
• Chair cross-functional design and governance forums that align Planning, Commercial, Finance, Operations, Source, Quality, Digital, IT, and data teams on enterprise requirements, design principles, priorities, decisions, and accountabilities.
• Own the integrated transformation portfolio, including scope, milestones, dependencies, resources, budget recommendations, benefits, risks, organizational readiness, and executive communications.
• Define the Planning data and integration strategy, including data ownership, hierarchy standards, planning parameters, data quality controls, interface requirements, and a single source of truth for decision-making.
• Ensure robust business process design, validation, user acceptance testing, training, cutover, hypercare, and adoption; establish measurable controls that protect service, inventory, and operational continuity during separation and deployment.
• Translate future-state processes into business requirements and product backlogs; make enterprise trade-off decisions and prevent unnecessary customization that undermines scalability, controls, or the target architecture.
• Drive digital enablement, advanced analytics, automation, and responsible AI use cases that reduce manual work, improve scenario planning, enable exception-based management, and advance the journey toward autonomous planning.
• Establish a sustainable post-separation product and support model, including decision rights, service levels, release management, enhancement prioritization, vendor governance, cybersecurity, access controls, and regulatory compliance.
• Build, lead, and develop a global team of process owners, product owners, program leaders, and system experts; define capability requirements, succession plans, and strategic workforce and partner models.
• Manage strategic relationships with technology vendors and implementation partners, holding them accountable for solution quality, delivery, knowledge transfer, and business outcomes.
• Benchmark external leading practices and represent Global Planning in enterprise transformation forums, translating relevant innovations into practical roadmaps and approved investments.

 

Key Performance Measures:

• Achievement of Company Separation and transformation milestones with validated business readiness, controlled risk, and uninterrupted operations.
• Executive approval and delivery of the integrated planning roadmap to one APS and one ERP, including architecture, sequencing, resources, investment, and value realization.
• Adoption and conformance to standardized global planning processes, common data definitions, design principles, and governance.
• Measurable improvements in service, inventory, forecast quality, planning cycle time, planner productivity, data quality, exception resolution, and user adoption.
• Reduction in legacy applications, manual workarounds, interfaces, and unsupported tools, with stable support performance and disciplined enhancement governance.
• Development of organizational capability, succession coverage, and sustainable internal ownership of planning processes and platforms.

 

Qualifications / Requirements:

 

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Data/Analytics, or a related discipline is required
• Typically, 15 or more years of progressive experience in complex global supply chain, planning, digital, technology, or business transformation environments, including substantial leadership accountability.
• Demonstrated success leading enterprise-scale APS and ERP transformation, process standardization, business separation, carve-out, integration, or comparable high-complexity programs.
• Deep knowledge of advanced planning concepts and end-to-end processes, including demand, supply, inventory, distribution, production, capacity, scenario, and integrated business planning.
• Proven ability to build business cases, govern large portfolios, influence investment decisions, manage implementation partners, and deliver measurable business value.
• Demonstrated expertise in global process ownership, operating-model design, master data governance, solution design, testing, deployment, change leadership, and adoption.
• Experience operating in a highly matrixed, global, and regulated environment
• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, decision-making, and organizational leadership skills, with the ability to align diverse functions around enterprise standards and outcomes.

 

Preferred

• An advanced degree is preferred.
• Experience with leading APS and ERP platforms such as OMP, Kinaxis, SAP IBP/APO, SAP S/4HANA, or comparable solutions is strongly preferred.
• Healthcare or another regulated industry is preferred.
• APICS/ASCM, Lean, Six Sigma, program management, change management, or relevant technology certifications are preferred.

 

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state, or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

 

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