Director- Digital EP-Neuro

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Job Function:

Digital Marketing

Job Sub Function:

Digital Platform Operations

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Irvine, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Description

The Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies have been working to make surgery better for more than a century. With substantial breadth and depth in surgical technologies, orthopedic and interventional solutions, we aspire to improve and enhance medical care for people worldwide. Together, we are working to shape the future of health through differentiated products and services.

The Electrophysiology & Neurovascular Business unit, part of the Medical Devices sector within Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Make/Quality Process Analyst for the Transcend Program.

Reporting to the EP/Neuro Business Leader for the Transcend Program, the Director, Digital Strategy & Deployment is responsible for the development, evaluation, and execution of the strategic direction for EP/Neuro digital strategy by leading and delivering digital transformation for the Cardiovascular and Specialty Solutions Supply Chain. This role will drive the ideation, development, and execution of our digital vision.

This leader will partner with E2E platform teams to prioritize initiatives and deliver purposeful innovation insights and business analytics tools, techniques, and process automation. This role will play a significant influencing role across the organization and will work closely with several Johnson & Johnson MedTech teams in digital, data science & IT.

Key Responsibilities

Develop EP/NEURO SC Digital Strategy & Manage Digital Portfolio:

• Development, evaluation, and execution of the EP/NEURO digital strategy

• Capture all data needs across E2E Supply Chain, in partnership with E2E Functions including JJSC, Commercial, R&D, Information Technology, External Manufacturers

• Lead business SMEs, analyze the end-to-end value chain, identify digital business improvement and external customer opportunities, break-down into manageable components that can be solved by employing digital capabilities including visualization and analytics.

• Develop business cases rationalizing business need to invest with strong quantitative and qualitative benefits

• Lead and represent EP/NEURO on the Digital Council to shape needed capabilities to drive the digital supply chain strategy; oversee the ecosystem of technologies to enable our digital supply chain; connect digital projects across the EP/NEURO Supply Chain and JJSC organization; share & leverage best practice digital strategies with other segments

• Develop and maintain relationships with strategic industry associations and thought leaders; benchmark current capability and identify opportunities for improvement

• Collaborate with external partners as identified to supplement business needs for reporting development and execution

Deliver Digital Capabilities:

• Create and mature advanced data analytics and AI (fit-for-purpose) capabilities for E2E Supply Chain in partnership with Information Technology and Global/Regional functions

• Develop and implement new innovative insights and business analytics tools to signal detect opportunities and performance

• Implement process automation across functions to improve employee productivity, service, and operations

• Collaborate with manufacturing plant leadership and drive the acceleration Industry 4.0 business cases through delivery to automate and improve processes using technology

• Lead projects to eliminate bottlenecks, and de-risk current process and coordinate all relevant Supply Chain data related functions

• Identify insights and work with stakeholders to achieve business improvements.

• Drive improvement in data-driven decision making including but not limited to aligning data and data systems to meet the needs of the EP/NEURO Supply Chain end-to-end focus

• Diagnose data requirements and roadmap prior to digital project launch, ensuring correct processes are put in place to improve and maintain, including the identification of business owners for data domains for long-term sustainability

• Outline process for ad-hoc data extraction from source systems if not in data warehouse

• Assess technologies for application such as blockchain

• Serve as a global expert on maximizing business value through data and process automation

• Leverage Advanced Analytics and collaborate with Planning function to optimize processes in Planning such as: demand forecasting, NPD launch curves, SLOB reduction

• Measure success through value realization on all EP/NEURO SC digital initiatives in partnership with project leads

Enhance EP/NEURO Customer Experience

• Engage Commercial leadership within each franchise to understand customer needs

• Develop and execute SC customer engagement process, in partnership with platform Product management team and commercial partners

• Translate customer needs (i.e., hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers) into SC solutions, and incorporate into project business case and portfolio prioritization.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 10 years of related experience required.

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree required; Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Information Technology, Data Science or related field highly preferred; Advanced degree such as a Master’s degree is preferred

• Strong leadership experience with the ability to lead a cross-functional global teams required

• Demonstrated expertise in programming, statistical and simulation modeling, operations research, data science, and engineering tools

• In-depth knowledge of supply chain and data sources available with a proven track record of developing and successfully implementing data strategy and using multiple data sources for achieving business objectives is required.

• Ability to develop individuals within an organization required

• Advanced knowledge of end-to-end product supply and distribution required, strong understanding of core systems preferred, i.e., ERP, MES, APS

• Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in bridging technical and business disciplines, evaluating, and determining appropriate risks required

• Project management experience required

• Lean manufacturing and six-sigma methodology experience preferred

• Product cost management and budget management preferred

• Up to 20% of travel both domestically and internationally is required

• Flexible hours to accommodate multiple time zones when necessary

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.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$146,000 - $251,850

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are 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. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits