EMEA EP NV Central SC Plan Sr Manager

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Job Function: Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function: End-to-End Planning

Job Category: People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Diegem, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description

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 Johnson & Johnson.

EMEA Central SC Plan Sr Manager (PG31) Role Purpose & Scope

As the senior leader of the Central EMEA Planning organization, this role is accountable for defining and executing the regional planning strategy, driving enterprise-wide transformation initiatives, and ensuring alignment between commercial objectives, supply chain performance, and financial outcomes across a complex and highly matrixed environment. The role serves as a critical member of the EMEA Supply Chain leadership team and acts as the primary regional interface with global planning, commercial, and operational stakeholders. The EMEA Central SC Plan Sr Manager leads the Central EMEA Planning organization and is accountable for regional planning performance across Demand Planning, IBP, Inventory Management, Replenishment, and Service Management. This role provides strategic leadership to a team of planning managers and senior planners, ensuring alignment between regional, country, and global stakeholders while delivering business objectives related to forecast accuracy, customer service, inventory optimization, and financial performance. The Sr Manager establishes planning governance, drives operating model excellence, sponsors digital transformation initiatives, and serves as the primary EMEA planning representative in global decision-making forums.

Key Responsibilities

1. Strategic Planning & Business Leadership

Demand Planning & Portfolio Strategy: Define and execute the regional planning vision and target operating model. Establish multi-year planning capability roadmaps and transformation priorities. Drive strategic leadership of New Product Introductions (NPI), Lifecycle Management (LCM), and portfolio optimization initiatives.

Align regional demand strategies with global business objectives and portfolio priorities. Influence global portfolio, network, inventory, and capacity decisions through data-driven business cases. Integrate launch, lifecycle, and exit strategies with Commercial, Marketing, and Global Supply organizations.

Business Performance Management: Partner with Commercial, Finance, and Supply Chain leadership to ensure delivery of revenue, profitability, service, and cash flow objectives. Monitor and close gaps between business plans, demand forecasts, and financial commitments. Lead strategic reviews of risks, opportunities, and performance drivers across the region. Ensure planning decisions balance growth, service, inventory, and financial outcomes.

2. Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Leadership

IBP Governance & Executive Alignment: Own IBP governance and maturity across Central EMEA. Lead strategic review of consolidated demand signals, forecasts, assumptions, and business risks. Ensure alignment between local, regional, and global planning processes. Govern demand reconciliation activities and escalation pathways. Maintain explicit linkage between operational plans and financial objectives.

Executive Decision Support: Chair regional and cluster Demand Reviews as required. Drive resolution of demand, supply, inventory, and financial gaps. Escalate structural risks and business trade‑offs to senior leadership. Provide scenario analysis and decision support to executive stakeholders.

3. Inventory & Service Excellence

Inventory Strategy & Governance: Define and lead regional inven