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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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Production Planning & Scheduling

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking a(n) Materials Requirements Planner Specialist to join our MAKE Asset Management Organization located in Wilson, NC at our US Large Molecule Drug Substance Site.

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 https://www.jnj.com/.

J&J is expanding our manufacturing capacity with $2 billion investment to support strong portfolio growth and continue delivering breakthrough innovation and transformational medicines for patients. The new facility will expand production of innovative biologic medicines in areas including oncology, immunology, and neuroscience. J&J’s significant supply chain investment ensures a resilient and reliable future supply of medicines to meet accelerating demand for our current portfolio of medicines and our future innovations.

Position Overview

The Materials Requirements Buyer/Planner is responsible for co-ordination and execution of all activities related to the planning and procurement of raw materials and components, converting the output of the Master Production Schedule (MPS) and the Detailed Schedule (DS) into material requirements to ensure availability of the right quantity of components to the production lines when needed.

Communicating the plan to the different suppliers within the agreed lead times.

Be an integral part of a team which optimizes the flow of materials, while considering the plants warehouse capacity and inventory targets in order to eliminate potential disruptions in the storage, storage costs and avoiding material scrap (SLOB) both at site level which rolls up to API Large Molecule Platform Level.

Key Responsibilities

• Development, maintain, publish and communicate Materials Requirements Plans (MRP) to ensure that patients and customers requirements are met.

• Maintain inventory levels within our goal, while minimizing excess, obsolete and expired materials. Contribute to the global balancing effort of Materials and Components ensuring efficient and effective procurement & inventory practices and optimizing the balance between quality, service, reliability and cost.

• Ensure that all material delivery schedules are communicated to the suppliers on time to meet plan requirements.

• Partner with Global Procurement to drive Supplier performance improvement including quality and timely delivery in line with MPS.

• Tracks and reports site / platform level supplier service performance, communicating the information to the relevant parties.

• Collaborate with Quality and Warehouse staff regarding rejected / defective materials, making the physical arrangements with the supplier to ensure a timely return of goods or disposal.

• Focuses and encourages continuous improvements (CI) of the process supported!

• Supports material and component Phase in and Phase Out processes.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree is required; Master’s degree in Supply Chain Management or other related Business field is desirable.

• Supply Chain Certification is preferred e.g. APICS.

• Lean Certification is desirable.

Experience

• 2 years relevant Supply Chain Management experience (Planning, Purchasing, Logistics or Manufacturing) in a multinational environment is preferred.

• Experience in Pharmaceutical and/or Biopharmaceutical industry preferable.

• Knowledge of SAP/OMP is preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Capabilities:

• Demonstrate the drive, eagerness and capabilities to be successful in this role with a view to developing and progressing to leadership level within Johnson & Johnson.

• Development of an efficient and effective Material planning supply chain management processes and systems.

• Ensuring that customer requirements are clearly planned for and communicated within the organization.

• Customer focused. Results and performance driven

• Collaborative and cross-functional with all other departments within the company and to align across JSC and other J&J organizations.

• Ensure department and personnel goals and objectives are completed in a timely and efficient manner.

• Ensure a high level of integrity and implementation of Credo-based actions.

Other

• This position requires up to 10% of travel time

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 and 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, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

This job posting is anticipated to close on 3/25/2025. The Company may however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.

• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.

• Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

• Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year

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

• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Additional information can be found through the link below.

https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits