Manager Demand Planning

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Demand Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

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Johnson & Johnson is currently hiring for a Demand Manager to join the North America Regional Demand & Supply (RD&S) team!

In this highly visible role, you will serve as the critical link between Commercial and Supply Chain, translating market insights and business strategy into an aligned, actionable demand plan that supports reliable product supply, sound inventory decisions, and business performance. This position will be located onsite/hybrid in Titusville, NJ. Alternate onsite/hybrid locations may be considered at other Innovative Medicine Supply Chain sites in North America, such as Horsham, PA.

This is an opportunity to influence portfolio strategy, navigate complex market transitions, and collaborate across a diverse global network to deliver meaningful outcomes for customers and patients.

Are you interested in joining a diverse team influencing strategy and delivering outstanding results to our customers? Apply now for this exciting opportunity!

Key Responsibilities:

Demand Planning & Forecast Governance

• Lead the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) demand process for the assigned portfolio, including the monthly Demand Review. Align Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning, and global partners on the demand outlook, key assumptions, risks, opportunities, and decisions.
• Own the 36-month unconstrained demand forecast by combining statistical projections, customer and channel signals, market insights, commercial strategy, lifecycle events, and financial expectations.
• Ensure approved forecasts, assumptions, lifecycle events, and master data are updated accurately and on time in Anaplan, OMP, and other planning systems. Reconcile information across planning and reporting sources.
• Serve as Global Brand Owner (GBO) for selected brands. Own the combined global demand forecast and communicate major changes, scenarios, risks, and opportunities to end-to-end planning and supply partners.
• Track forecast accuracy and bias using measures such as MAPE and BIAS. Identify causes of error and lead improvement actions with business partners.

Market, Portfolio & Lifecycle Intelligence

• Develop a strong understanding of the North America market, including patient and customer needs, channels, distributor and inventory trends, policy and access changes, economic factors, competitors, and therapeutic-area trends. Turn these insights into forecast updates and business actions.
• Lead demand planning for key product lifecycle events, including launches, indication or formulation changes, supply transitions, mature-brand optimization, discontinuations, and loss of exclusivity (LOE).

Cross-Functional Decision Support & Risk Management

• Partner with Commercial, Finance, Therapeutic Area Supply Chain Leads, Value Chain Management, Supply Planning, and other functions to develop scenarios, assess demand and inventory impacts, evaluate trade-offs, and recommend actions that protect supply and business value.
• Identify demand changes, supply constraints, and customer-service risks early. Lead demand mitigation, allocation planning, prioritization, and executive escalation as needed.
• Represent Demand Management in Integrated Management Team (IMT) and other portfolio governance forums. Challenge assumptions and drive timely cross-functional decisions.

Qualifications:

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s or equivalent degree is required.
• An advanced degree, MBA, or degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Business, Finance, Economics, Data Science, or Analytics is preferred.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• At least 6 years of relevant experience in demand planning, supply chain planning, commercial analytics, finance, or a related field.
• Experience in pharmaceuticals, healthcare, consumer health, or another complex, regulated supply chain.
• Strong business and analytical skills, including the ability to develop and evaluate scenarios, connect market and customer insights to demand, inventory, service, and financial results, and make sound decisions with incomplete information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex information, influence without authority, build cross-functional agreement, respectfully challenge senior stakeholders, and provide clear recommendations.

Preferred:

• Experience partnering across Commercial, Marketing, Finance, Market Access, Regulatory Affairs, Quality, and end-to-end Supply Chain teams, and building trusted relationships across functions, regions, and organizational levels.
• Experience with complex product lifecycle events—including launches, mature brands, loss of exclusivity, generic competition, and discontinuations—and with scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, market and channel analytics, customer inventory, and demand sensing.
• Experience with enterprise planning, analytics, and visualization tools such as SAP, Anaplan, OMP, and Microsoft Excel, plus knowledge of IBP and monthly planning processes.

Other:

• This position may require up to 10% travel, domestic and/or international
• Requires the ability, through our flexible work policy, to work on-site a minimum of three days each week, with the option for two remote workdays each week

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Intelligence (BI), Business Savvy, Commercial Awareness, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Digital Supply Chain Platform, Fact-Based Decision Making, Financial Competence, Financial Forecasting, Inventory Management, Inventory Optimization, Manufacturing Flow Management, Predictive Modeling, Process Improvements, Statistics, Supply Planning, Technical Credibility

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$102,000.00 - $177,100.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year

Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year

Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child

Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year

Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits