Plan Excellence Digital Manager

Brighter Signals; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 3,000,000 - 5,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Bengaluru is seeking a Plan Excellence Digital Manager to lead a small team and steward digital tools enhancing the Plan organization’s capabilities. You will evaluate project value, coordinate with Plan Excellence and IT, and design solutions aligned with business needs.

Strong SQL and data tooling expertise are essential. The role focuses on data-driven decision making, process improvement, and agile delivery, with opportunities to work on AI-related initiatives while not

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience as a developer in digital platforms.
• People management experience required.
• Attention to details required.
• Strong analytical skills required.

Responsibilities

• Lead a small team to develop and maintain digital tools for the Plan Excellence organization.
• Stand up an intake process to evaluate project requests for business value, resources, risks and timeline.
• Engage stakeholders from Plan Excellence, IT or other teams to design and implement projects.
• Understand requirements and ensure alignment throughout project duration.
• Develop capabilities that improve efficiency and close capability gaps.
• Deliver solutions using Databricks with Python/SQL, Alteryx and Tableau; explore other platforms as needed.
• Drive an agile environment within the supply chain Plan function.
• Maintain digital solutions and respond quickly to issues to minimize business impact.
• Support continuous improvement of data-related processes for accuracy and efficiency.
• Create and maintain documentation such as SOPs and data quality catalogs.

Skills

SQL

Python

Alteryx

Tableau

Databricks

Dataiku

ETL

SAP data

PowerPoint

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Alteryx

Tableau

Dataiku

Databricks

SAP

Job description

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.

Job Function

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function

Planning Strategy & Capabilities

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations

Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Job Description

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

• Reporting into the J&J Vision Plan Excellence (PEX) team, the Plan Excellence Digital Manager leads a small team to develop and maintain digital tools to enhance capabilities of the JJV Plan organization; responsibilities for the Digital Manager include both technical development as well as people management.
• Stand up an intake process to evaluate project requests for business case value proposition, resource requirements, risks and timeline. Determine if the PEX Digital team is the right developer for the solution or not.
• Engage additional stakeholders from Plan Excellence, IT or other teams as necessary to design and implement projects with the most optimal solution. Communicate project requirements and updates effectively to all stakeholders.
• Work with project requestors to fully understand all requirements and stay connected to ensure alignment throughout the duration of a project until completion.
• Develop digital capabilities that improve efficiency and/or close capability gaps where current system solutions are not available.
• Majority of solutions will be delivered in Databricks with Python/SQL, Alteryx and Tableau. Exploration of other platforms may be possible.
• High expectation to drive an agile environment, requiring high degree of understanding of the supply chain Plan function, including Planning systems and data processes. Structure the team and work to respond with flexibility.
• Day-to-day responsibilities for maintaining digital solutions if issues arise; respond with appropriate urgency to mitigate business impact.
• Support ongoing continuous improvement initiatives to streamline data-related processes for efficiency and accuracy.
• Quickly gain knowledge to learn the current processes related to the department and the end-to-end information needed to understand and assess the impact of data to the business and systems upstream and downstream of where the department is engaged and key to these processes.
• Contribute to the creation and maintenance of documentation for area of responsibility. May include Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Work Instructions (WIs), protocols, data quality catalogs, and other policy and procedure documents.
• NOTE: This role is not in software development. This role may involve some work in AI but is not the primary focus.
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Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. Minimum 7 years of experience as a developer in digital platforms. People management experience required.Attention to details required.Strong analytical skills required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

Supply chain systems experience, preferably in Plan-related data. Supply Chain Plan experience with strong understanding of major data elements and business processes. Development expertise in at least one ETL platform required. Development expertise in at least one front-end visualization platform required. Proficiency in SQL required. Alteryx experience strongly preferred. Dataiku experience strongly preferred. Tableau experience strongly preferred. Databricks experience strongly preferred. Python experience strongly preferred. Experience with SAP data preferred. Experience with OMP data preferred. MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) required. Strong written, oral, and presentation skills required. Ability to build strong collaborative relationships, influence multiple partners at all levels, and establish common goals and objectives without sacrificing outcomes. Ability to contribute on a diverse, multicultural, and partially remote team. Ability to prioritize multiple initiatives within timelines where priorities may change rapidly.

Preferred Related Industry Experience

Programming and development of digital tools in an agile environment. Data management experience in the context of large ERP platforms

Key Working Relationships

Plan Excellence team, Planner stakeholders at all levels

Preferred Skills

• Agility Jumps
• Business Continuity Planning (BCP)
• Data Reporting
• Demand Planning
• Fact-Based Decision Making
• Financial Competence
• Green Manufacturing
• Inventory Optimization
• Lean Manufacturing Principles
• Manufacturing Flow Management
• Operational Excellence
• Organizational Project Management
• Process Improvements
• Program Management
• Strategic Supply Chain Management
• Supply Planning
• Technical Credibility