Technical Product Owner- VCM E2E Integration Manager

Johnson & Johnson; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in healthcare innovation is seeking a TPO VCM E2E Integration Manager in London. This role involves driving design and implementation of product flows, engaging with business and technology teams, and ensuring solutions meet localization needs. Ideal candidates will have extensive SAP experience, strong leadership skills, and a background in the pharmaceutical industry. Join us in transforming lives through innovative medicine and technology.

Qualifications

• Minimum 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Minimum 6 years relevant SAP experience.
• Minimum 4 years relevant Pharma experience.

Responsibilities

• Drive design and implementation of Innovative Medicine Product flows.
• Manage deployment test cycles and support data loads.
• Coordinate planning and execution of System Integration Testing.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Information Technology

Supply Chain

Finance with Intercompany focus

Tools

SAP

S/4 HANA

Job description

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:

London, United Kingdom

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for TPO VCM E2E Integration Manager, can be located in Titusville NJ (preferred location), Antwerp, Belgium and London, UK.

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):

Titusville, NJ, US - Requisition Number: R-013827

Antwerp, Belgium - Requisition Number: R-014910

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

At Johnson & Johnson 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 Janssen. We collaborate with the world for the health of everyone in it. Learn more at www.janssen.com and follow us @JanssenGlobal.

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 to have a cost effective, fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the IM business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

As part of the IM Transcend program, we are looking for a strong leader that can set direction and can drive design and implementation of Innovative Medicine Product flows based on Strong Knowledge of SAP Supply Chain E2E Intercompany business processes and technology capabilities to support these processes.

The VCM E2E Integration Manager will focus on VCM End to End Interim design of financial flows in close collaboration with legacy ERP’s and S4 Process functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• Gather Interim state impact on global product flows by each release of the program.
• Ensuring a future-proof solution design for the Interim state of Product flows 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 areas of expertise needed are as follows:
• Inter and Intracompany Sales.
• IC Stock Movements.
• 3P and IC Sub-contracting.
• 3P and IC Toll Management.
• Intercompany Pricing.
• IC Invoicing.
• Logistic and Intercompany Flows.
• Tax and implications on Financial flows.
• Knowledge for translating Functional requirements into Technical specifications.
• Lead requirements to design till deployment of solution and hyper care.

Requirements Definition

• Engage with business and technology teams to gather Financial flows requirements in scope of a program release.
• Manage Fit-Gap assessment versus template solution and high-level design of specific regional, site or function requirements. Collaborate with technology product owners of legacy ERP’s and Program process functions to confirm L2 level design and identify the required RICEF’s.
• Ensure level 3 design of the processes meet VC Automation design.
• Formalize the release scope and effort assessment and align with all the relevant program stakeholders across the business and technology ecosystem.
• Ensures the backlog is healthy. Stays 2-3 sprints ahead and ensures each feature has a clear definition of done; ensures each feature level deliverable is aligned to a definition of readiness to enter sprint.

Future-proof Solution Design

• Engage with business and functional teams in providing the best fit technical solution while aligning to the IM Transcend template design and implementation standards.
• Close collaboration with process functions in the program to assess the solution options and design to ensure it meets VCM requirements.
• Drive solution design of specific localization requirements e.g., ecosystem integration, forms, reports, etc.
• Manage alignment of integrated build across scrum teams to ensure the end-to-end build of each part of a solution is compliant and works as designed.

Product Delivery

• Coordinate planning and execution of System Integration Testing across ERP’s; Support SIT script writing based on E2E Business process Scenarios, support Business Simulation (BST) and User Acceptance Testing (UAT).
• Support mock data loads and manage defect resolution for SIT, BST and UST test cycles. Coordinate end-to-end testing across project workstreams and ecosystem teams.
• Ensure business and system readiness for go live. Support production cutover, data conversion, technical/business go live and hypercare.
• Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensure SDLC documentation and compliance deliverables are up to date as required.

Leadership

• Act as the prime liaison between the local team (country, site, function) and the IM Transcend team, partnering closely with the business & technology teams.
• Drive each milestone activities in release scope across an international cross regional project team of Product Analysts through project design, execution, and deployment phases.
• Coordinate, lead, coach, motivate and inspire the team to both deliver on agreed plans and to continuously improve.

Qualifications

Education:

• A Bachelor’s degree is required.
• Preferred Area of Study: Information Technology, Supply Chain, Finance with Intercompany focus.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Required Years of Related Experience: A minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience; a minimum of 6 years relevant SAP experience; a minimum of 4 years relevant Pharma experience.

Domain Expertise

• Deep End-to-End understanding of Supply Chain Finance and Intercompany business processes, such as: Sourcing of direct Materials, Subcontracting Processes, Toll Manufacturing, Intercompany Sale, STO’s etc.
• Understanding the end-to-end business process linkages across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Finance and Master Data.
• Experience in Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare industry and good Knowledge of SOX & GxP compliance regulations.
• Experience with Agile methodology and good understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle Management model and documentation.

Leadership Skills & Behaviors

• Demonstrated ability to work closely with cross-functional teams.
• Good communication and influencing skills.
• Outstanding organizational skills.
• Solid sense of urgency and ability to handle changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Flexible, thriving on change and able to adapt to it.

Preferred:

• Preferred Related Industry Experience: Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare.
• Applied knowledge of S/4 HANA.
• Knowledge/awareness on SAP products e.g. Central Finance and integration with other SAP modules/processes.
• Experience working in a global/regional setting.
• Experience in a large-scale business transformation program.
• Experienced in managing a product backlog/release plan, tracking team level metrics, attend product team ceremonies, removing blockers.

Other:

• Travel percentage 20%.

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