Johnson & Johnson's Robotics and Digital Solutions Supply Chain organization is recruiting a Director of Integrated Business Planning. The role is a full-time position and will be located in Santa Clara, CA with an expectation of being in the office 3+ days per week.

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/.

Robotics and Digital Solutions, is part of Johnson & Johnson Med Tech. At Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions, we are changing the trajectory of health for humanity, using robotics to enhance healthcare providers’ abilities and improve patients’ diagnoses, treatments, and recovery times. Johnson & Johnson Robotics was established in 2020 with the integration of Auris Health, Verb Surgical, C-SATS, and Ethicon. It comprises three key med-tech platforms: Flexible Robotics (MONARCH®), Surgical Robotics (OTTAVA™), and Digital Solutions. Join our collaborative, rapidly growing teams in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City and Santa Clara), Cincinnati, and Seattle. You’ll collaborate on breakthrough medical technologies that unite multiple subject areas to build a connected digital ecosystem that advances medical professionals’ skills and improves patient outcomes.

The Director of Integrated Business Planning will report into the Sr. Director, Strategy and Planning and is a leader responsible for collaborating across all key functions to collectively lead the S&OP / IBP process for the business units. The Director of Planning facilitates aligned decision making through evaluating and revising projections for demand, supply, product and portfolio changes, strategic projects, and the resulting financial plans. They ensure overall S&OP / IBP process adherence, while championing S&OP / IBP maturity improvements.

A suitable candidate for this role will have strong leadership experience and deep knowledge on all aspects of planning processes including long range portfolio planning, demand planning, supply planning, production planning, integrated reconciliation and executive alignment to the integrated business plan. They will have strong financial acumen, problem solving and scenario building expertise, and excellent collaboration and communication skills.

MAJOR DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

S&OP / IBP Process

• Collaborates cross functionally to drive holistic the S&OP / IBP process, through financial integration, focusing on demand plan valorization, inventory management, and overall business target setting.


• Responsible for maintaining senior leadership engagement in the S&OP / IBP process to ensure that decisions are taken within the process.


• Governs the cyclical S&OP / IBP reviews with the appropriate management teams and facilitates Regional and Global IBP forums.


• Develops and governs IBP policies, standards, guidelines, technology and procedures.


• Monitors the S&OP process on a continuous basis to measure process adherence and lead IBP process assessments and champions improvement efforts to increase IBP maturity.

Integrated Decision Making

• Drives transparent discussion of risks and opportunities through the IBP cycle from Portfolio Management Review to Management Business Review (Executive IBP).


• Collaborates cross functionally to drive profitable trade off decisions.


• Responsible for influencing large-scale global and regional teams to collect, analyze, consolidate, and report key data, improving the decision-making process to bridge gaps versus the business plan on revenue, profitability, and the cash conversion cycle.

Production Planning

• Directs a team of managers and planners across businesses ensuring flawless planning of all activities needed to perfect supply response, both internally and externally.


• Reviews and develops corrective actions stemming from performance metrics and striving for continuous improvement in the production planning process, tools and systems.


• Ensures all demand for the network is consolidated into supply plan and production volumes across sites are in line with capacity constraints and ensures demand can be met within inventory targets.


• Guides production planning teams according to aligned network and site MPS.


• Builds and develops a high performing production planning team, sets clear performance standards and holds people accountable for results to deliver customer service goals, optimize inventory investments, and meet production requirements.

Inventory Management

• Directing the integrated supply chain inventory, segmentation strategies, and setting governing inventory policies and standards.


• Deploying inventory processes, tools, and governing inventory entitlement.


• Ensures inventory plans meet customer service and inventory targets.