Supply Chain Specialist, A&R

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 jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Demand Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Shanghai, China

Job Description:

Position Summary

The Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for end-to-end supply chain strategy and execution for the portfolio. Based in Shanghai, this role drives supply reliability and cost-to-serve optimization. The role partners closely with Commercial, Manufacturing, Quality & Regulatory, Procurement, Planning, and Global Supply Chain teams to ensure launch readiness, allocation during constraints, distributor management, and operational excellence while meeting regulatory and patient-safety requirements.

The role’s scope of responsibilities include:

• Own regional S&OP / IBP execution: coordinate demand inputs, supply commitments, capacity planning and executive escalation for constrained SKUs.
• Manage inventory and working capital across the region: optimize safety stocks, reduce obsolescence and manage consignment/field-stock models where applicable.
• Drive launch readiness and execution: define supply plans, staging, buffer strategies and allocation for new product introductions and market rollouts.
• Lead supply risk management and contingency planning: single-source mitigation, critical supplier engagement, dual-sourcing strategies and expedited logistics plans.
• Oversee distributor & 3PL relationships: performance KPIs, contractual SLAs, returns/recall processes and cold-chain or special handling where required.
• Partner with Quality & Regulatory on import/export controls, lot traceability, recall preparedness and compliance impact to supply continuity.
• Implement process improvements and digital initiatives to improve planning cadence, transparency and decision-making.
• Represent supply chain in global forums — contribute to network design, capacity allocation and supplier selection decisions.
• To be the system expert including SAP, upstream and planning system; support system upgrade, testing and implementation.
• Can use different digital tools like PBI to buildup reporting template, optimize reporting efficiency and bring out insight

Major Duties & Responsibilities

In order of importance, briefly describe, in sentence form, the essential functions/major responsibilities of this position (principal duties and responsibilities of the position) as it exists today.  Describe the job, not the person in the job.  Each item listed below should be an essential function/major responsibility of the position, not a day-to-day activity.

Typically, job descriptions should contain no more than seven or eight major responsibilities ranked in order of highest percentage time to least.

Approximate Percentage of Time

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

30%

• S&OP / IBP leadership and supply-demand reconciliation

10%

• Inventory, allocation and launch readiness management

10%

• Supplier & distributor performance and risk mitigation

20%

• Reporting and analysis

30%

• Systems, process improvement and analytics

100%

• Total

Required Qualifications

Consider and identify qualifications potential applicants must possess in order to be considered for the position. Basic Qualifications must be clearly stated, objective and relevant to this particular position.

Required Minimum Education:  Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Finance or related field; MBA or advanced degree strongly preferred.

Required Years of Related Experience:  Min 3+ years                                                                                                 Other N/A

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (Uncompromised requirements for the role):

(Include any required computer skills, certifications, licenses, languages, etc.)

• Supply chain experience with progressive leadership responsibility; experience in MedTech, medical devices, or other regulated, procedure-driven industries required.
• Demonstrated experience managing multi-country planning across APAC including China; experience with distributor models and 3PLs.
• Proven track record leading S&OP / IBP, launch readiness and allocation during constrained supply situations.
• Strong knowledge of regulatory/import-export considerations, lot traceability, recalls and quality-driven supply processes.
• Experience with planning and ERP systems (SAP, SAP IBP, Kinaxis or equivalent) and analytics/visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau).
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills with ability to present trade-offs to senior commercial and manufacturing stakeholders.
• Fluent in English; business proficiency in Mandarin preferred.
• Eligible to live and work in China.

Travel on the Job

Indicate whether this position requires travel.

Yes 

Percentage Travel:

20 %

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

(Include any preferred computer skills, certifications, licenses, languages, etc or abilities that are assets to performing in the role.)

• Prior responsibility for regional launch planning in healthcare/FMCG
• Formal training in Lean, Six Sigma or supply chain certifications (APICS/CPIM/CSCP).
• Experience working in matrixed global organizations and leading cross-functional, cross-country teams.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Business Behavior, Collaboration, Customer Service, Data Analysis, Data Savvy, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Execution Focus, Inventory Optimization, Manufacturing Flow Management, Personal Development, Predictive Modeling, Project Management, Statistics, Supply Chain, Supply Planning