Transcend: Director, GTO Innovative Medicine Operate State Leader

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:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Business Systems Analysis

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Cork, Cork, Ireland, Latina, Italy, Little Island, Cork, Ireland

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.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

United States - Requisition Number: R-021325

Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-022095

Belgium, Ireland, and Italy - Requisition Number: R-022091

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

We are searching for the best talent for a Transcend: Director, Global Template Owner (GTO) Innovative Medicines (IM) Operate State Leader! This hybrid position will be located in Titusville, New Jersey. Alternate hybrid locations may be considered in Raritan, New Jersey; Latina, Italy; Cork, Ireland; Beerse, Belgium; or Zug or Schaffhausen, Switzerland.

Are you ready to be part of a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will transform and standardize our core business processes and products across Plan, Source, Make, Quality, Deliver, and Data, and enable our integrated data strategy through a single SAP S/4 HANA instance? Apply today for this exciting opportunity to shape and set the future direction for supporting and improving our new process across all areas.

As a key leader in the IM Transcend Team and the Value Chain Management (VCM) organization, the Director will lead a team of functional experts in supporting and improving the process and capability for all the E2E process in the new business operating system. They will enable integration across the IM & J&J functions to embrace the solutions that support end to end (E2E) organization and requirements while maintaining the integrity and reliability of ERP template. The role will be accountable for working with a team of E2E experts in supporting the user base on the Transcend system and driving the ongoing process capability improvements for all capabilities. The role will include Bench-marking, continuous improvement, consistent process documentation, and product deployment through the various Transcend projects adn continuous improvement releases. This individual must apply a refined, multi-functional tool-set of business expertise, technical knowledge, and digital acumen to effectively interact with a breadth of business stakeholders and global process owners. The successful candidate will engage and operate with program teams at an execution level, as well as with senior leadership at a strategic level.

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