Transcend: Senior Manager, Methodology PMO

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:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Technology Project Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

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.

Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains.

This program will simplify the Pharmaceutical ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes to have a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharmaceutical business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

We are searching for the best talent for a Transcend: Senior Manager, Methodology PMO! This hybrid position will be located in Titusville, New Jersey.

The Senior Manager plays a critical leadership role with the J&J Innovative Medicine (IM) Transcend team and is responsible for serving as a member of the Methodology PMO. The Senior Manager is accountable for serving Global transformation program across all program functions, work streams, and global teams adheres to the Agile program methodology. They will work globally across all releases of Transcend deployments, from solution readiness, business readiness, and transition to end-state, to promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the program team to implement Agile deployment methodology for the S4 Hana implementation across the business and technology teams and according to the needs of the program for process improvements, automation, and real-time reporting

• Define and implement program operations best practices through use of tools, technology, and process improvements

• Define and implement end-to-end solution management in Jira for all releases

• Analyze and prioritize program learnings that gain efficiencies in program deployment and delivery, and lead a team to implement these changes

• Collaborate cross-functionally to enable a quality implemented methodology according to Agile program methodology

• Prepare business updates for senior level team members through automated reporting tools (e.g., Power BI) by using automated workflows to program plans, trackers, and systems

• Ensure the deployment methodology, ways of working, and training materials are updated, and teams enabled to deliver

• Drive adoption of methodology through Jira champion network, job aids, communications, and stakeholder training sessions

• Lead program methodology activities and team members to implement program operational improvements

• Develop Jira data quality reports and lead Jira metadata cleanup activities working with functional teams

• Support Release-Train-Lead (RTL) to define process, ways of working, and dashboards for PI readiness, PI planning, and PI execution

• Support Testing lead to define process, ways of working, and dashboards for various testing cycles in X-Ray

QUALIFICATIONS:

EDUCATION:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's/University or equivalent degree is required

• FPX, PMP, or equivalent Project Management certification is helpful

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:

Required:

• Minimum of 8 yea