Americas Deliver Planning Lead

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Deliver

Job Sub Function:

Deliver Excellence

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

São Paulo Brazil

Job Description:

The Americas Deliver Planning Lead is accountable for driving end-to-end flow optimization and lane-level planning execution across the Americas distribution and transportation network primarily focused on the LATAM market. This role ensures optimal freight flow design distribution capacity alignment and cost-to-serve performance through advanced analytics scenario modeling and cross-functional collaboration.

The Lead enables enterprise decision-making by translating demand and supply signals into distribution and lane-level plans (024 months) optimizing mode mix and proactively identifying risks and opportunities across inbound and outbound flows.

This role can be located at a Johnson & Johnson site within the United States (NJ PA CA FL TX or Guaynabo Puerto Rico) or internationally in Markham Canada or São Paulo Brazil.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply 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):

US - Requisition Number: R-085621

São Paulo Brazil - Requisition Number: R-085741

Markham Canada - Requisition Number: R-085742

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

Key Responsibilities

Supply Capacity Planning

• Lead Deliver supply and capacity planning across owned and 3PL distribution centers and transportation partners primarily focused on the LATAM region
• Ensure accurate and timely visibility of capacity constraints risks and tradeoffs across the Deliver network.
• Support regional Deliver teams in executing capacity and labor plans aligned to business priorities.
• Execute Deliver planning scenarios and tradeoff analyses to support enterprise decisionmaking.
• Represent Deliver planning outcomes in monthly operation forums and leadership discussions.

Flow & Lane Planning

• Lead lane-level planning across inbound and outbound flows ensuring alignment between forecast capacity and execution.
• Identify and proactively mitigate lane bottlenecks and capacity constraints ahead of demand peaks.
• Coordinate with carriers and 3PL partners to align capacity with forecasted volumes.

Product Distribution Strategy & Flow Governance

• Establish and lead a structured recurring process to define and manage how products flow through the existing distribution network (manufacturing hubs local DCs).
• Translate global network design into scalable executable flow rules across Surgery and EP/NV portfolios.
• Define and govern product flow segmentation strategies including differentiation for fast vs. slow movers to optimize service cost and inventory positioning.
• Define and standardize the role of primary hubs secondary hubs and local DCs (large vs. small) within the network.
• Implement a recurring governance cadence to review and update product flows (e.g. new products node additions demand shifts).

Scenario Planning & Decision Support

• Develop scenario-based lane and contingency plans for disruptions (e.g. node outages volume variability).
• Provide clear insights on cost service and capacity tradeoffs across distribution capacity flow decisions.
• Translate analytics into actionable recommendations for leadership forums and planning cycles.

Capacity & Performance Management

• Monitor and manage lane capacity utilization and DC storage utilization vs. plan and identify improvement opportunities.
• Track and optimize SG&A warehousing and COGS freight spend ensuring alignment with financial targets.
• Identify and quantify flow optimization opportunities across the network.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with Regional Deliver Transportation (D&T) GTTO Business Unit Supply Chain Planning carriers and 3PLs.
• Influence stakeholders through data-driven insights on flow performance risks and tradeoffs.
• Support alignment between network strategy IBP and operational execution

Scope & Accountability

• Owns:
  • Execution of Deliver Operations Planning activities
  • Deliver supply and capacity planning outcomes
  • Lane-level planning and flow optimization across Americas network
  • Mode mix optimization and freight routing strategy
  • Scenario modeling and contingency flow design

• Does Not Own:
  • Daytoday operational execution in distribution or transportation
  • Enterprise network design
  • IBP governance frameworks (provides input and analytics support)

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree preferred
• 5 years of experience in supply chain planning transportation or network optimization
• Experience in flow optimization lane planning or transportation modeling
• Proven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders in a matrixed organization

Preferred:

• Experience in multi-region distribution and logistics networks
• Strong capabilities in analytics scenario modeling and decision frameworks
• Expertise in network optimization tools freight modeling or advanced analytics platforms
• Ability to translate strategy into scalable executable planning solutions

Other:

• This position requires up to 25% domestic and international travel.

Desirable:

• APICS/CSCP/CLTD/CPIM and/or Lean Six Sigma; degree in Supply Chain/Operations/Engineering
• Supply chain experience in medical device or pharmaceutical industry.
• Deep understanding of financial processes.

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 . internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

If you are under 18 years of age you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment as well as get a parents consent for the background check.

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Employment Type : Full-Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1