Nordic Regional Demand and Supply Planner

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Demand Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Copenhagen, Solna, Stockholm County, Sweden

Job Description:

JJIM – Regional Demand & Supply Nordics

Job description: Nordic Regional Demand & Supply Planner

Position organizational context: within Regional Demand and Supply Nordics, part of the Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain (JJSC) of Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines

Tactical responsibilities:

- Captures tactical affiliate business opportunities and makes sure they are brought to the attention of JJSC management organization

- Acts as the local arm of JJSC to deploy new added value initiatives aiming at increasing the market competitiveness of Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines

Operational responsibilities:

- Manages forecast and replenishment to country specific warehouses for approximately 100 SKUs, with a mix between Dynamic Champions, Core and Value Optimizers for narcotic and non-narcotic products. Including PIMS management and scenario planning

- Manages and plans timely and cost-effective supply of his/her portfolio based upon product life cycle stage and market demand variations

- Manages New Artwork Implementation Planning and Expiry Date Planning

- Proactively alerts local company and EMEA about required escalations or potential supply chain disruptions and create STEMs. Follows up with corrective actions. Reports and explains stock-outs

- Communicates with manufacturing sites to ensure un-interrupted supply to the markets

- Supports, advises, and executes plans for New Product Introduction

- Supports, proposes, and executes plans for Product Portfolio Rationalization

- Functions as a country SPOC for one or more 3PLs

- Initiates destructions e.g., due to SLOB, etc. monthly in SLOB tool. And communicates destruction decisions to one or several 3PLs in the cluster of countries

- Collaborates with commercial and pricing to find solutions for increasing sales where there is excess stock, to avoid SLOB and destructions

- Initiates repackaging to reduce destructions due to artwork (SLOB avoidance) when needed

- Initiates donation requests to reduce destructions due to excess stock when needed

- Responsible to ensure supply of samples to markets in own cluster

- Initiates artwork extensions to avoid stock out when needed

- Maintains Master Data Planning Parameters for ERP- and Planning Systems

- Monitors actual sales vs. forecast, and initiates dialogue with production when needed, through our planning system OMP and via e-mail & Teams when needed

- Monitors KPIs for his/her product portfolio, proposing and executing corrective actions

- Manages intracompany shipments between countries to avoid stock out situations

- Acts in compliance with company policies for trainings and Travel and Expenses guidelines

- Manages monthly Danish Stock Reporting – Amgros requirement

- Manages the Priority Report (maintain, run and communicate)

- Manages the common Supply Chain Mailbox for the cluster

- Drives the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) meetings with Commercial, Controllers and BI agrees on the monthly Consensus Demand Forecast (1-36 months) and compares vs the financial plans. Reviews gaps between finance and consensus demand forecast. Discusses business assumptions with risks and opportunities expressed in units, net sales, and gross profit. Agrees how to close gaps and how to handle SKU mix issues

- Drives and facilitates the monthly IBP Meeting for one country (Integrated Business Planning w. country leadership teams). Collects information from several functions and prepares material for the meeting. Responsible to take minutes of meetings and maintain and follow up an action/decision log.

- Provides insight to the EMEA and Global monthly IBP cycle regarding market scenarios, business assumptions, risks, and opportunities

- Represents supply chain in the preparatory meetings for all financial planning cycles and actively shares information and contributes with the supply chain perspective for his/her portfolio. Attends to the country specific meetings for financial planning

- Has the capability to have the role of a EMEA or Global Subject Matter Expert or Champion in one or several areas, working together with organizations and representatives outside own geographical cluster

- Can represent the Nordic countries, MSM or EMEA D&IM organization in designing MSM, or EMEA supply chain processes when needed

Competencies to be successful in role:

- Has a degree from university, minimum a B.Sc. or three years equivalent upper education

- Acts with integrity and assumes full responsibility for assigned tasks

- Has strong customer and patient focus

- Great E2E understanding and business acumen. Collaborates across functions and organizational levels to achieve better results for the company (R&D, Finance, Commercial Deliver, Business Quality, Regulatory, Customer Service, Pricing & Reimbursement, Market Access etc.)

- Excellent communication skills to be able to facilitate and drive meetings and discussions. Understands what information stakeholders need to make better decisions and communicates proactively and clearly at all levels in the organization

- Excellent collaboration and stakeholder management skills. Takes initiative and acts in a pro-active way. Actively looks for opportunities to build new partnerships and networks. Represents Supply Chain in a professional manner and understand the importance of quick response times but also knows how and what to prioritize, especially under time pressure. Contributes to building credibility and respect of our function

- Highly developed influencing skills. Influences strategic business decisions, involving LOC leadership teams, finance, commercial and others. Influences decisions based on solid E2E knowledge, expertise in Supply Chain and with E2E opportunities in mind

- Experience and skills in leadership, change management and project management

- Skilled in negotiation and make compromises with other functions to achieve the best possible outcome for the company, sometimes with trade-offs for own function

- An analytic mindset. Able to understand different theoretical statistical models and apply in forecasting and in decisions on what products to focus on.

- Has an open and curious mindset and happily shares and discusses ideas. Displays innovative thinking and ask questions to understand more and explore opportunities across organizational borders (Global, EMEA, LOC) to identify improvements in the flow of products to customers and patients

- Has the necessary IT skills (MS Office, SAP, OMP, Tableau, QlikView; Anaplan etc.)

- Important with solid Excel expertise

Mindset to be successful in role:

- Feels comfortable working in an international and rapidly changing environment. Adopts quickly to new concepts, processes, and systems

- Contributes to an open and positive team spirit and acts as a role model for the team

- Shows interest in new technologies and investigates how to use them

- Is open for mentoring and coaching and receives and shares feedback in a positive manner

- Displays a Can-Do attitude and a willingness to walk the extra mile to get things done

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Business Behavior, Coaching, Collaborating, Competitive Landscape Analysis, Customer Service, Data Analysis, Data Savvy, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Inventory Optimization, Manufacturing Flow Management, Predictive Modeling, Problem Solving, Project Management, Statistics, Supply Planning