Senior Manager Value Stream Leader

Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking Value Stream Managerto join our TEAM located in Switzerland – ZUG.

At Johnson & Johnson , we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

About J&J MedTech

At Johnson & Johnson MedTech, we unleash diverse healthcare expertise, purposeful technology, and a passion for people to transform the future of medical intervention and empower everyone to live their best life possible. For more than a century, we have driven breakthrough scientific innovation to address unmet needs and reimagine health. In surgery, orthopedics, vision, and interventional solutions, we continue to help save lives and create a future where healthcare solutions are smarter, less invasive, and more personalized.

Position Summary

The VSM is a highly visible position with responsibility for supporting the development and execution of the End to End (E2E) Value Stream initiatives within the Ethicon Endo Surgery business. This is an entrepreneurial role, with a mix of strategic and tactical elements that operates within a multi-functional and global environment. Serves as the leader of a portfolio of projects and processes across a broad range of product value streams. Primary responsibility is to optimize supply chain process performance based upon end-to-end thinking, making conscious-profitable tradeoffs, and overall product ownership. This role will connect Supply Chain, Commercial, and R&D partners to develop customer-centric Life Cycle strategies that deliver franchise objectives. Tasks, duties, and responsibilities are listed below. 

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Under general direction and in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws/regulations and Corporate Johnson & Johnson, procedures and guidelines, this position: 

•                          Maximize the impact of Value Stream management by maturing the End to End Operating model. Will work under the guidance of the Value Stream Leader and will have flexibility in leading the Value Stream Team. 

•                          Must be results-oriented, demonstrating strong facilitator and influencing skills and be able to drive a team towards a final decision in an environment with high levels of ambiguity, complexity, and risk. Working across functional boundaries, aligning with partners on a roadmap for change, and interacting with all levels in the organization. 

•                          Continuously improve the E2E supply chain performance by owning the application of the Johnson & Johnson Operating System (JJOS) processes. Deliverables will include the development and deployment of: Product Strategy Roadmap (PSR), Life-cycle Portfolio Prioritization, Product Performance Management, Issue Management, Stakeholder Management, and Portfolio Optimization. 

•                          Measure supply chain process performance, collect and analyze data, develop new data analysis methods and techniques to provide deep insights. Build new digital analytical capabilities within the supply chain. 

•                          Facilitate the development, creation, and refresh of the Product Strategy Roadmap (PSR). Collaborate with key business partners to identify a broad set of cross-functional needs and build consensus on product, process, and people priorities. Explore external threats and business imperatives and incorporate into strategy. Optimize overall performance by taking the output from the PSR and developing, deploying, and implementing improvements to make for a more responsive, agile, and flexible production system to better meet customer requirements (examples: cycle-time reduction, E2E capacity increases, new manufacturing and processing technologies, supply chain digitization, SKU rationalization, product design improvements, cost savings, and supply chain agility/resilience). 

•                          Drive prioritization efforts within the vale stream’s project portfolio and build business cases for new LMC projects and ensure they meet overall strategic objectis. Direct resources and efforts to make improvements.

•                          Enable rapid issue resolution of critical supply & quality events. 

•                          Publish and promote value stream performance. Coordinate communication between various functions and senior leaders. 

•                          Conduct analysis to recommend and execute optimal Product Portfolio mix. Develop solutions for end-to-end cost and inventory optimization, work with strategic marketing, regulatory, R&D and technical groups to ensure readiness to react to market / customer requirements and deliver on product life cycle innovations. 

•                          This position will focus on the Advanced Bi-Polar and Capital group of products. 

•                          Owning the analysis, planning, execution, improving, and monitoring of performance. 

•                          Reviewing the strategic capacity plan and aligning with the capital plan. 

•                          Developing business cases to support advancement of the PSR. 

•                          Evaluating and prioritizing product risks across the E2E SC. Developing and implementing mitigating solutions. 

•                          Facilitating and creating content to advance value stream management maturity. 

•                          Modeling E2E scenarios and their trade-offs. Provide options and recommendations to senior leaders. 

•                          Linking franchise business strategy to supply chain network strategy.

•                          Connecting the day to day performance with the business plan and strategic plan.