Senior Manager, GPEX Regional Process Integration Leader, Americas

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:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Financial Planning & Analysis

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

São Paulo, Brazil

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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to align with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

United States and Puerto Rico - Requisition Number: R-093224

Brazil - Requisition Number: R-093975

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

We are searching for the best talent for a Senior Manager, Global Planning Excellence (GPEX) Regional Process Integration Leader (RPIL), Americas!

This hybrid position will be located in Titusville, New Jersey (USA). Alternate hybrid locations may be considered at other J&J sites such as: Gurabo, Puerto Rico or São Paulo, São Paulo (Brazil).

The Senior Manager RPIL for Americas serves as the primary integration point between GPEX and Regional Demand & Supply across the Americas. This role translates global planning strategy into regional execution, brings regional business requirements and insights into global process and technology roadmaps, and drives cross-process priorities across demand and supply planning. This role supports planning capabilities across Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Demand Planning, New Product Introduction (NPI) and Launch Planning, Inventory and Slow-Moving & Obsolete Inventory (SLOB) Management, Planning Performance Management, Supply Network Planning, and related end-to-end planning processes.

The RPIL combines strategic influence with hands-on regional deployment, partnering with Regional Leadership, Regional Directly Responsible Individuals (DRIs), Global Process Managers (GPMs), Business Process Owners (BPOs), Technology Product Owners (TPOs), Key Users (KUs), Learning & Development, Finance, Commercial, JJT, and other partners to deploy global standards, lead region-specific initiatives, handle adoption, and deliver measurable business outcomes. The Americas RPIL support diverse regional, market, operating-model, and capability needs across North America and LATAM while maintaining alignment to global standards.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Regional Strategy, Integration, & Governance

• Act as the primary point of contact between GPEX and Americas RDS for regional integration strategies, priorities, and decisions related to planning processes and capabilities.

• Partner with Regional Leadership and DRIs to shape, prioritize, and maintain an integrated regional process and capability roadmap aligned with global strategy and business priorities.

• Lead the Americas Regional Council, establishing a clear cadence, agenda, decision log, action tracking, and critical path for planning initiatives, risks, and resource needs.

• Provide concise, timely insight to regional and global leadership on portfolio status, outcomes, dependencies, risks, decisions, and support required.

• Represent regional requirements in global governance and planning cycles, while ensuring global standards, design principles, and strategic intent are understood and upheld across the region.

• Manage cross-process implications and sequencing so that changes are implemented as an integrated business solution rather than as isolated process or technology deployments.

Process & Capability Deployment

• Collaborate with GPMs, BPOs, TPOs, KUs and Learning & Development to deploy global processes, tools, and capabilities across the Americas, including project kickoff, regional requirements, fit-gap assessment, release planning, deployment, and hypercare.

• Lead collection and synthesis of regional business requirements and point-of-contact insights; distinguish critical business needs from local preferences and translate them into actionable global or regional requirements.

• Coordinate regional readiness across stakeholders, resources, data, testing, training, communications, cutover, and adoption while ensuring variances from global standards are documented, governed, risk-assessed, and periodically reviewed.

• Lead region-specific initiatives that are not intended for global scale, including business justification, governance, deployment, change management, and continuous improvement.

• Identify region-originated practices or solutions with global value and partner with GPMs to assess scalability, standardization, and transfer into the global roadmap.

Change, Adoption, & Continuous Improvement

• Build a regional change and adoption strategy for new planning processes, digital products, and ways of working, in partnership with RDS Leadership and functional change networks.

• Drive stakeholder engagement, communications, and best-practice sharing across leadership, practitioners, and key-user communities while creating feedback loops that improve deployment approaches and planning standards.

• Monitor implementation progress, process adherence, adoption, capability maturity, and realized value; initiate corrective actions where outcomes are at risk.

• Facilitate best-practice sharing within the Americas and across regions, and create feedback loops that improve global standards and deployment approaches.

• Participate in business forums and real operating scenarios to understand regional challenges, provide hands-on support, and promote simplification, standardization, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

Communities, Partnerships, & Functional Leadership

• Connect global Communities of Practice with regional practitioners by sharing regional updates and challenges, collecting feedback, tracking agreed actions, and encouraging active participation.

• Build trusted relationships across Supply Chain, Commercial, Finance, Quality, JJT, and other functions to align partner interests and facilitate fact-based decisions across countries, functions, and organizational levels.

• Influence without direct authority, align diverse customer interests and facilitate fact-based decisions across countries, functions, and organizational levels.

• Provide mentorship and thought leadership to project teams, key users, and planning practitioners, strengthening regional process ownership and change capability.

• Serve as backup to the relevant GPM for IBP and Demand Planning activities, and provide continuity during planned absences or priority initiatives.

QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's / University or equivalent degree is required; advanced studies or similar experience and/or focused degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, Information Systems or a related field is preferred

• APICS/ASCM, Project Management (PMP, FPX, or similar), Lean/Six Sigma, Prosci, or comparable certifications are preferred

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Required:

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience

• Experience in supply chain process and/or digital transformation initiatives

• Strong experience in supply chain planning, with significant exposure to IBP/S&OP and/or Demand Planning

• Experience or exposure with at least one Planning Process such as NPI/Launch, Inventory/SLOB, Supply Network Planning, or performance management

• Proven success leading complex, cross-functional process or technology deployments in a regional, global, or multi-country environment

• Experience translating business requirements into scalable process, data, technology, capability, and change solutions

• Proven track record to lead portfolio governance, manage interdependencies, surface risks, and drive decisions across multiple concurrent initiatives

• Strong change leadership, customer engagement, communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority and communicate complex topics clearly

• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability, including the ability to use data and business insight to prioritize actions and measure outcomes

Preferred:

• Experience in the Americas region and working across the United States and Latin America

• Experience with advanced planning and enterprise platforms such as OMP, Anaplan, SAP, JDE, or similar solutions

• Experience with process governance, fit-gap assessment, testing, deployment, hypercare, process mining, adoption measurement, or value realization

• Experience with Lean, Six Sigma, Agile, project/program management or structured change-management methodologies

• Experience applying digital, analytics, automation, or AI capabilities to planning processes

OTHER:

• Requires proficiency in English (written and verbal) to communicate effectively and professionally; proficiency preferred in Spanish or Portuguese

• May require up to 20% domestic and/or international travel, depending on business needs to work effectively across, time zones, and organizational boundaries

• 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

#LI-Hybrid

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Budgeting, Business Savvy, Consulting, Econometric Models, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Forecasting, Financial Modeling, Financial Planning, Financial Reports, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Industry Analysis, Internal Controls, Organizing, Project Management, Technical Credibility