Sr Manager Inter-Regional Transport

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Sr Manager Inter-Regional Transport, primarily based in New Brunswick, New Jersey, with the consideration for being based in any New Jersey office.

A member of the Inter-Regional Transport Excellence leadership team, the Senior Manager IRTE is responsible for flawless operational execution of the Pharma inter-region transport lanes; managed door-door. This includes day to day operational issue management, new requirements, project support, vendor management and lane reliability management. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Leader for door-door operational management for Johnson & Johnson inter-regional Pharma transport lanes, ensuring consistent product availability and highest levels of customer experience.
• Responsible for the management, driving improvements and reporting of reliability for inter-region Pharma transportation lanes.
• Lead vendor management process (business reviews, reporting on operational vendor performance) and own the relationship with the vendors in partnership with Global Logistics Procurement & our 4PL.
• Partner in inter-region sourcing initiatives providing robust requirements and ensuring timely and successful implementation of new awarded lanes.
• Collaborate, lead and be a change agent to drive end to end process improvements to ensure efficient freight hand, seamless regulatory/customs approvals and optimal lead-times for all inter-region Pharma supply chain movements, working closely with internal and external supply chain and logistics partners.
• Implement best in class process standards and KPI's for inter-region transport and ensure adherence by all inter-regional logistics parties.
• Partner with finance and regional transportation organizations to drive financial planning activities like LRFP, BP etc. and manage inter-region freight budget.
• Lead issue management impacting transport, collaboration and communication of all major events impacting Johnson & Johnson's inter-region Pharma transport movements. Proactively surface and resolve key issues with a sense of urgency working in a global and matrix organization.
• Partner with J&J Deliver Quality to ensure that transport operations is managed within the appropriate quality framework.
• Drive upstream supply chain efficiencies to ensure optimal transportation lead-times by working closely with our Pharma Plan, Make, Source and Deliver partners.
• Lead a global, virtual team of high-performing professionals ensuring an inclusive, collaborative environment with a focus on talent development.
• Connect and shape future strategic roadmap of reliability initiatives with Segment partners (influence, partner, analyze and drive improvements)
• Ability to manage and offer simplification strategies for a complex supply chain through the use of analytics and data.

Strategy:

• Be an integral team member confirming strategy regarding visibility, shipment monitoring, exception management.  Ensure the team uses tools and provides feedback to ensure lanes are performing reliability.

Additional responsibilities:

• Freight auditing
• Budgeting/Finance Support

Leadership:

Connect: Forge internal collaboration across the Pharma supply chain and cultivate external relationships and partnerships.

Deliver:  Empower people to act with speed, agility, accountability.

Shape: Challenge the status quo, lead and adapt to change.

Lead: Encourage others to engage in transparent & constructive conversations, contributing to high-performing teams.

Other features:

• Highly matrixed, global organization; multi-sector
• Heavy project management and influencing