E2E Supply Planner

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.

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):

Belgium R-109449, United States of America R-108785

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

Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Supply Operations

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

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

We are searching for the best talent for E2E Supply Planner.

Candidates must already have authorization to work in the country of employment. Immigration sponsorship and relocation support are not available for this position. Candidates authorized to work pursuant to a short-term status (e.g., F-1) who require future immigration sponsorship are not eligible.

Purpose: Plans and manages the day-to-day activities of Clinical Supplies department such as packaging, labeling, assembling and shipping of clinical supplies used in clinical trials. Responsible for the department's clinical supplies database records maintenance, protocol evaluation, coding of samples, and storage of approved materials. Complies to local regulatory and good manufacturing practices guidelines.

You will be responsible for:

• Develop E2E supply plans for clinical compounds           
  • Identify the underlying assumptions for Kit/DP/API supply plan through the cS&OP process.
  • Develop optimal end-to-end drug product and drug substance supply strategies for compounds that minimize waste while meeting the timelines and needs of the Clinical Trial Material supply plans.
  • Create drug product and drug substance supply plans by aggregating clinical demand across different trials as well as non-clinical demands, to ensure timely delivery, testing and release of clinical batches.
  • Provide information to the Supply Network Capacity Planners and Plant Schedulers to allow constrained master and/or detailed scheduling of batches in the CSC supply network in line with the trial requirements and in line with critical raw material and component availability.
• Drive structured improvements of functional processes in line with business or operational strategy.

• Ensure portfolio timelines and business performance goals, objectives and metrics are achieved, including consistency with GMP guidelines and all other compliance requirements

• Lead and/or supporting cross-functional and cross-departmental projects to improve business process/tools.

Qualifications/Requirements:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in business or science is required.
• A minimum of 3 years of related experience is required.
• Experience with several of the following supply planning processes: inventory management, supply chain management, supply planning, production planning, Lean and 6sigma, systems (OMP, SAP R/3 or ERP), other cross-functional supply chain processes is required.
• Strong leadership skills: Managing complexity, conflict, and ability to identify process gaps based on data or root cause analysis, ability to predict risk/impact of supply related processes are required.
• Excellent communication, negotiation and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and appropriately to all levels of the organization in both written & oral forms is required.
• The ability to work independently, multi-task and manage complexity is required.
• An innate aim to make the difference and achieve results is required.
• Continuous improvement in attitude and innovative thinking that will help see opportunities and related business needs is required.
• Insight into a clinical supply environment in a pharmaceutical industry, its characteristics and constraints and Q&C requirements is preferred.
• Experience with GMP and/or Quality management systems and processes is preferred.

 Other requirements

• Focus on achievement and delivery of results with high sense of urgency                     

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€61,200.00 - €98,210.00

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.