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:** People Leader **All Job Posting Locations:** Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Gent, East Flanders, 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 a Senior Manager Global Master Planning to join our **team!** 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): Raritan, NJ United States – **R-025724** Gent & Beerse, Belgium - Requisition Number: **R-027720** Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission. CAR-T is an advanced therapy that uses the patient's own immune system to fight the disease. The patient's T-cells are genetically modified to eliminate cancer cells. This groundbreaking, innovative technology offers a hopeful outlook to patients for whom other therapies have no or insufficient effect. **Summary:** The Vein-to-Vein Planning organization is a global team focused on enhancing the patient journey for cell therapies through effective planning and logistics support. As our business expands from operating as individual manufacturing nodes towards the world’s largest cell therapy manufacturing network, there’s an increased need for a global slot scheduling strategy and planning processes that help us optimize batch level planning in the Master Planning horizon. This role as Global MPS Senior Manager is a newly created role to help craft that global strategy and lead the existing teams to build the appropriate planning processes to execute on that strategy from a process as well as a system perspective. What makes this role very exciting is the variety of important elements: people leader of people leaders, global leadership of teams across regions (US & Belgium), shaping new planning processes, designing system requirements for those processes, and most importantly, a direct impact in our responsibility to increase patient experience and reach by optimizing the way we plan. **Key responsibilities:** + People leader of people leaders. Drive a culture of high performance and support the personal development of your team members. + Drive global harmonization across the regional scheduling teams with focus to increase patient reach (slot utilization) and patient experience (turnaround time) + Expand the current scheduling scope from customer orders (2-3 months) to all demand within the MPS horizon (3 years) to drive proactive planning optimization + Partner with regional and global commercial teams to drive proactive planning + Learn and anticipate customer behaviors and partner with the demand and IBP team to foster seamless transition across planning processes + Translate new planning processes to business requirements to help design new system capabilities for the future + Drive functional harmonization and leverage existing planning capabilities from the broader IMSC **Qualifications:** **Education:** + Minimum Bachelor's or equivalent University degree is required, focus degree in Engineering and/or Supply Chain is preferred. A Master’s degree is preferred **Experience and skills:** **Required:** + A minimum 8 years of professional experience in a relevant field (planning, logistics, manufacturing etc) + 2+ years of people leadership experience + Comfortable to work in a global and ambiguous setting that is in flux + Effective communication skills (candid, concise, active listening) + Relentless drive for excellence + Strong self-awareness & open for giving/receiving feedback **Preferred:** + Experience in Advanced Therapy within Pharmaceutical industry + Proven track record in manufacturing site planning is preferred + Experience interacting with commercial partners is preferred **Other:** + Ability to travel up to 10%, domestic & international required.