ERP Deployment Lead Finance & VCM

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:

Enterprise Management

Job Sub Function:

Technology Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an ERP Deployment Lead Finance & VCM, located in Titusville NJ, USA.

In support of their Innovative Medicine Transcend program, Johnson & Johnson is recruiting an ERP Deployment Lead Finance & VCM (Value Chain Management). The role is to be located in New Jersey, United States (preferred location Titusville NJ) or EMEA (preferred locations Beerse BE and Zug CH).

At J&J Innovative Medicine, we are working to create a world without disease. Transforming lives by finding new and better ways to prevent, intercept, treat and cure disease inspires us. We bring together the best minds and pursue the most promising science. We are J&J Innovative Medicine. We collaborate with the world for the health of everyone in it. Learn more at www.innovativemedicine.jnj.com and follow us @JNJInnovativeMedicine.

IM 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. The program will simplify the IM ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes in order to have a cost effective, fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the IM business with agility.

As part of the IM Transcend program, we are looking for a strong leader that can set direction and can drive deployment of ERP Finance & VCM capabilities to support our Innovative Medicine Supply Chain business, based on proven knowledge and experience in the fields of Financial Operations, Supply Chain Integration, Intercompany Sales and Toll Manufacturing, and a solid understanding of End to End Supply Chain ERP flows. The role will be an active member of the IM Supply Chain JJT team, driving global standardization of ERP technology solutions within Innovative Medicine.

The ERP Deployment Lead will focus on deployment activities for specific program releases, including but not limited to:

• Gathering of localization requirements and design of specific regional, site or function requirements in scope of a program release.
• Aligning business and technology roadmaps across IM Transcend and relevant interdependent programs for the release.
• Ensuring a future-proof solution design that meets localization needs whilst fully integrated with the IM Transcend global template.
• Managing deployment test cycles, supporting data loads, technical/business go live and hypercare for the release.

The role will partner closely with business process owners, technical product owners, ecosystem owners and various vendor partners to ensure end to end capabilities are supported and evolved.

Key Responsibilities:

Requirements & Roadmap

• Engage with business and technology community to gather localization requirements in scope of a program release. Support business owners with the definition of process flows and business requirements.
• Manage Fit-Gap assessment versus template solution and high-level design of specific regional, site or function requirements. Collaborate with technology product owners to manage KDD’s and identify the required RICEF’s.
• Align business and technology roadmaps across IM Transcend and relevant interdependent programs and manage the high-level milestone plan for the release.
• Formalize the release scope and effort assessment and align with all the relevant program stakeholders across the business and technology ecosystem. 

Future-proof solution design

• Engage with business and functional teams in providing the best fit technical solutions while aligning to the IM Transcend template design and implementation standards.
• Support selection of product/platform solution options, work with the Product