Senior Manager, Global Brand Protection, Latin

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Senior Manager, Global Brand Protection, Latin America (New Consumer Health Company). This position will be located in São Paulo, Brazil.

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The Senior Manager, Global Brand Protection, LATAM, reports to the Senior Director, Global Brand Protection, and is primarily responsible for assessing, developing, and implementing processes, programs, and policies that help protect our consumers, customers, business, and the reputation of our brands from various forms of illicit trade including counterfeiting, illegal diversion, and tampering across the Latin America region.

The Global Brand Protection (GBP) function is primarily focused on the prevention and mitigation of the risks and impacts posed by the illicit trade of company products, as well as to the advancement of a safe and secure supply chain. The Senior Manager, GBP, LATAM works with commercial business leaders and cross-functional stakeholders at the regional level (e.g., Quality, Supply Chain, Legal, Government Affairs, Commercial, Global Security, etc.) to communicate brand protection risks, align business objectives, and advise the business on appropriate strategies and countermeasures to increase the safety and security of the supply chain. With the support and direction of the Senior Director, GBP, the Senior Manager, GBP, LATAM is responsible for the implementation of strategies and tactics across the region and for meeting or exceeding agreed-upon goals and objectives.

The Senior Manager, GBP, LATAM also leads their regional Product Security Investigations & Enforcement (PSI&E) team and works closely with all their GBP colleagues, external agencies, and vendors/partners to collect market intelligence, assess threats and vulnerabilities of illicit trade in the region, support investigations and enforcement activities that target illicit traders, and generally improve the company’s ability to detect, deter, and prevent counterfeit and illicit trade.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:

- Formulating regional brand protection risk management strategies and objectives while ensuring that objectives are aligned with global GBP strategies
- Advising and guiding business and cross-functional leaders on brand protection matters
- Liaising with key functional partners, such as Quality, Law Department, Supply Chain, Commercial, and other key stakeholders to ensure alignment, visibility/action toward critical issues, resource optimization, and project execution
- Collaborating with GBP Capabilities and Operations Lead, PSI&E and Customs Global Governance Lead, as well as their GBP Regional counterparts to assess illicit trade risks in the region and support the development/execution of prioritized risk mitigation/management strategies and plans
- Managing cross-functional brand protection programs for the region, such as product security investigations and enforcement (PSI&E), Customs/trademark recorders and training, and brand protection audits/risk assessments
- Deploying GBP best practices and technologies to prevent, reduce, and control known and foreseeable illicit trade risks in the region
- Leading, shaping, and influencing brand protection industry thinking and collaborating with industry partners and other critical external stakeholders to advance the brand protection community of practice
- Regularly providing timely, clear, concise, and effective communications to the GBP team regarding information from the region, for the furtherance of the GBP mission
- Managing a team of two or more PSI&E contractors or other support staff

**Qualifications** Position Requirements**:

- A minimum of a bachelor's degree is required
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