Sr Dir, Global Planning, SpineSports

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Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology were developing the next generation of smarter less invasive more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics Ready to join a team thats reimagining how we heal Our Orthopaedics 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 Global Planning Leader will lead the Global Planning function for Spine Sports and Cranio-Maxillofacial (CMF) Platforms within DePuy Synthes. Together these platforms drive annual sales of about $2.2B. The Leader will be responsible for driving the Supply Planning Process globally with a strong Customer-First focus ensuring that customer service objectives are being met while meeting cost and inventory cash flow targets for the platform. The role will report into the Vice President of Global Supply Chain Planning for DPS and partner closely with the Leader of Spine/Sports/CMF Supply Chain to support the delivery of the End-to-End (E2E) Platform strategy its New Product Introductions and day-to-day execution of supply chain activities.

In order to deliver the objectives of the role this Leader will be responsible for building a leading-edge planning capability for the Spine Sports and Cranio-Maxillofacial (CMF) Platforms in line with the Supply Chain Planning strategy for DPS. Critical to building these new capabilities will be maturing foundational capabilities in the core planning systems and ERP systems and evolving the planning process from a functional focus to an end-to-end value stream focus with an accelerated evolution towards advanced analytics and autonomous planning capabilities.

This leader will lead a team of about 18 staff. A key area of accountability will be to ensure that this team reflects the talent and capabilities required to deliver the overall objectives for the Planning function and Spine/Sports/CMF platforms.

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The Key Responsibilities of the Global Planning Leader for Spine/Sports/CMF are as follows:

• The design operation and continued improvement of the Global Planning process for Spine/Sports/CMF.
• Validating Net Requirements from the markets and identifying short to medium-term constraints. Critical to this activity is the projection and tracking of set demand and ensuring a set-level net requirements plan as appropriate for the platform.
• Owning the Global IBP process execution for Spine/Sports/CMF and ensuring in partnership with the E2E Platform Leader that key decisions required from the process are being provided to support Supply Chain decision-making.
• Owning the E2E execution of the Supply Planning Process so that product is available at the right place in the right quantities and at the right time to service our customers. Working closely with strategic manufacturing partners and external suppliers to ensure that their supply plans align with our requirements.
• Continual development of the team to meet the demands of a modern supply chain while growing the capabilities of individual members.
• Owning and monitoring key supply chain plan-related performance metrics including:
  • Service: OTIF-Delivered Backorder value.
  • Inventory: value and days of inventory measured at each echelon of the supply chain.
  • Demand Forecast accuracy: Bias and Forecast Error measured in partnership with the regions to hold them accountable through the IBP process.
  • Manufacturing Plan Attainment: Volume and Mix MPS Attainment - measured to hold strategic manufacturing partners accountable for delivering their planned output.
  • Excess & Obsolete: value and split between NPI and base business measured both at the warehouse and field levels in partnership with the regions.
  • NPI launch metrics: On-time launch performance.
  • Team productivity metrics including $ per SKU planned for the Platform.
• Providing DPS Supply Chain and Commercial leadership with timely reports that inform about service product availability issues and mitigation actions and overall planning effectiveness assessment for the platforms supply chains.
• Create and maintain an environment of innovative continuous improvement focusing on quality cost reduction process development and improvement in supply. Lead team; develop goals and objectives; provides regular feedback and development plans
• Owning and shaping the advanced analytics capability within the team to drive the overall optimization of E2E metrics for the Spine/Sports/CMF Platforms.
• Representing Global Planning on the Spine/Sports/CMF E2E Supply Chain Leadership Team.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a bachelors degree in Science Engineering Business Supply Chain Management or related discipline is required.
• An advanced degree in Science Engineering Business or equivalent experience is preferred.
• A minimum fifteen (15) years of experience in a complex Supply Chain environment is expected along with a proven leadership track record in Supply Chain Planning.
• The ability to drive process improvements innovate prioritize and collaborate in a heavily matrix environment is required.
• Experience in creating Customer-Centric E2E Supply Chain strategies and delivering Best-in-Class business results through innovative customer-focused solutions is required.
• Ability to influence and gain cross-functional support to deliver the strategy is required.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and drive operational improvement using process excellence tools is preferred.
• Strong written and oral communications skills are critical for success in this role.
• Experience in healthcare or similarly complex regulatory-dependent sector is preferred.
• APICS / CSCP / LEAN / Six Sigma certifications are preferred.

The position is expected to require an average of about 20-30% of travel.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies as may be required regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position it is anticipated that following conclusion of the transaction you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes programs policies and benefit that case details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

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