Manager Inter-regional Transport Excellence

**Job Function**:
Supply Chain Deliver
**Job Sub Function**:
Transportation Services
**Job Category**:
Professional
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Singapore, Singapore

A member of the Inter-Regional Transport Excellence leadership team, the Manager IRTE is responsible for flawless operational execution of 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 Responsibility
- Leader for door-door operational management for Johnson & Johnson inter-region 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 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.
- 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 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-region logistics parties.
- Lead issue management impacting transport, collaboration and communication of all major events impacting Johnson & Johnson's inter-region 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 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.

Strategic
- 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
- Lead a global, virtual team of high-performing professionals ensuring a inclusive, collaborative environment with a focus on talent development.

Leadership
- Connect: forge internal collaboration across the 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.

Essential knowledge and skills:

- Minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required with 6-8 years experience
- Experience in a combination of one or more of the following: Logistics, Customer Service or Supply Chain is required
- Experience working in a highly matrixed, global organization is required
- Experience working in the Medical Device required - Vision Care preferred
- Business Development experience strongly preferred
- Strong business acumen and understanding of the end to end supply chain is required
- Track record of delivering results & managing against milestones and deadlines is required
- Demonstrated ability to think strategically and implement approved projects is required
- Budget management experience $2-4MM or more is preferred
- Knowledge of Planisware (PPM Tool) is preferred
- Knowledge of PMP/LEAN/SIX SIGMA/APICS/FPX/SDLC methodologies is preferred
- FPX, PMP Certification is preferred
- Integrity and Credo-based Actions