Manager, GPEx Business Product Owner - Plant Planning

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Manager, GPEx Business Product Owner - Plant Planning. This position is located in Titusville, NJ; Malvern, PA; Gurabo, PR, or Athens, GA with consideration given for our sites in Beerse/Geel, BE; Zug/Allschwil. CH; Latina, IT; Cork, IE; and Leiden, NL.

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The business process owner is responsible for the Plant Planning and related processes. Ensuring flawless execution of regional processes. Drive continuous improvements to bring value, increase efficiency, and support business growth through operational excellence for all North America markets & plants.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive continuous improvement of business processes and systems, related reports and metrics.
• Find opportunities for innovation, develop solutions, project proposals and implementation plans.
• Lead implementation of improvements using project management methodologies.
• Partner with Country Supply Chain teams, Make organization and Regional IT teams to find opportunities for improvement, align on priorities, and ensure timely delivery of improvements.
• Lead governance activities to ensure consistency and compliance between process design and actual plant processes. Identify gaps in processes, systems, and capability and implement improvements.
• Lead capability building activities regionally; assess current state, identify capability gaps, develop training and certification programs.
• Lead team of plant process owners (or SME’s) to improve processes and results in the region, develop an ongoing communication plan, and lead the change management approach.
• Partner with related functions, such as finance, manufacturing, distribution, and IT, to ensure efficient and integrated business processes and an end-to-end approach.
• Represent the region in global process teams, ensure alignment of regional model to global model, participate in development of global initiatives, and support implementation throughout the region.
• Participate as team leader or team member in regional projects, strategic initiatives and technology innovation projects to improve processes, systems, and results throughout the region. Examples of projects include: OMP or other ERP modules, lean, JJOS, master data, inventory optimization, supply chain segmentation.
• Use analytical and quantitative methods, including Lean, Six Sigma and Zero Defect, to understand, predict, and improve supply chain processes.
• Assemble data, analyze performance, identify issues and opportunities, and develop recommendations.
• Analyze and report meaningful metric results for the region, find opportunities for improvements in the countries and across the region, benchmark results internally and externally and develop action plans to improve.