Global ERP Deployment Lead

J&J Family of Companies; Madrid; Hybrid; EUR 62,000 - 106,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Vacation days

Well-being reimbursement

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Transcend: Innovative Medicine Deployment Manager to lead global ERP deployment activities across multiple regions. The hybrid role will coordinate with business, technology, testing, compliance, and change management teams to ensure timely, compliant, and high-quality releases.

The position requires 6+ years in project/program management, experience with ERP deployments, and strong stakeholder influence in matrixed environments.

Qualifications

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s/University or equivalent degree is required; MBA or advanced degree is preferred.
• Certifications preferred: Project Management (PMP, FPX, or equivalent), Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, or SAP
• Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience
• Demonstrated experience in Project Management and/or Program Management
• Experience with an ERP deployment and/or business transformation
• Customer Service and/or Commercial Contracting, Billing, and Pricing knowledge
• Experience in Supply Chain, Operations, or related leadership role
• Proven track record to lead complex initiatives in highly matrixed organizations, influencing stakeholders and driving alignment across teams through strong communication and presentation skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with a focus on execution and results delivery
• Experience within pharmaceutical, healthcare, medical device, or other highly regulated environments

Responsibilities

• Lead deployment execution across global ERP releases and functional workstreams, developing and managing integrated deployment plans, KPIs, deliverables, and readiness activities.
• Monitor deployment progress, identify risks and issues, and drive resolution to ensure successful delivery against program objectives and timelines.
• Support deployment governance, stage-gate reviews, and release readiness assessments while ensuring adherence to Transcend methodologies, standards, and operating procedures.
• Coordinate status reporting, executive communications, and leadership updates, maintaining transparency of risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Partner with business, technology, testing, compliance, change management, training, cutover, and hypercare teams to ensure coordinated deployment execution.
• Influence stakeholders and facilitate decision-making across highly matrixed global teams to drive alignment and achieve deployment objectives.
• Identify, assess, and mitigate deployment risks and cross-functional dependencies, raising critical issues and driving timely resolution.
• Maintain executive-ready reporting and deployment health metrics to support informed decision-making and effective governance.
• Promote standardization, simplification, and adoption of deployment best practices across releases and workstreams.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance deployment efficiency, scalability, operational excellence, and future release success.
• Develop and document Contracting, Pricing, and Billing user requirements with acceptance criteria.
• Demonstrate ability to work independently, prioritize, and effectively meet deadlines with little supervision.
• Map Contracting, Pricing, and Billing business processes with a focus on testing, reporting, and documenting findings.
• Provide Contracting, Pricing, and Billing support on best practices implementation and rollout to all Regions.
• Visually design communication content based on best practices to efficiently showcase Contracting and Pricing Customer Service team successes and ensure consistent messaging in the communication campaigns.

Skills

Project Management

Program Management

ERP deployment

Supply Chain

Leadership

Communication

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

MBA or advanced degree

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Transcend: Innovative Medicine Deployment Manager to lead global ERP deployment activities across multiple regions. The hybrid role will coordinate with business, technology, testing, compliance, and change management teams to ensure timely, compliant, and high-quality releases.

The position requires 6+ years in project/program management, experience with ERP deployments, and strong stakeholder influence in matrixed environments.