IMUAM Deployment Manager

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 4,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in Bengaluru seeks a seasoned UAM Deployment Manager to lead SAP S/4HANA rollout challenges in a regulated pharma setting. You will guide a small security team, ensure deployment readiness across all phases, and maintain strict SoD/compliance standards.

Collaboration with IT, security, and compliance teams will drive risk‑based decisions, governance, and measurable outcomes. Strong English communication is essential for global coordination.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or university-level qualification in Finance, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 8 years’ international experience, including 5+ years in people management or team leadership.
• Expertise in business role design and SAP security concepts.
• Experience managing ERP deployment programs and project delivery in sophisticated, multi‑functional environments.
• Solid understanding of sophisticated system landscapes and global template design.
• Good knowledge of SAP S/4HANA authorization concepts and familiarity with compliance requirements such as SOX, GxP, IT, and Privacy.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation projects.
• Specialist knowledge of SAP GRC Access Control, Process Control, and identity management tools.
• Good understanding of SoD, mitigation, and remediation concepts.
• Good knowledge of risk matrix and rule set maintenance.
• Specialist knowledge of data analysis, data conversion, and migration.
• Solid project management, planning, prioritization, and execution leadership skills.
• Ability to lead and empower teams in a virtual or remote working environment.
• Strong collaborator management, communication, collaboration, presentation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong analytical, decision‑making, and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written English skills.
• Experience influencing and collaborating across large business, IT, security, and compliance organizations.
• Collaborative, value‑based, and outcome‑oriented leadership style with the ability to manage teams, develop talent, and drive accountability.
• Experience establishing or operating UAM governance frameworks, including standards, policies, decision forums, and performance metrics to supervise progress and accountability.
• Experience managing compliance requirements, change impacts, and stakeholder expectations during technology or process transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Manage UAM deployment delivery for individual Transcend SAP S/4HANA releases in a regulated pharmaceutical environment, ensuring execution of the global UAM deployment strategy in line with deployment milestones, quality expectations, and program governance requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 3-5 Security Analysts, setting priorities, providing guidance, supporting performance and development discussions, and aligning team activities with J&J and UAM talent development expectations.
• Own UAM deployment readiness across all deployment phases, ensuring persona design, testing, cutover/provisioning, and hyper‑care activities are planned, resourced, monitored, and completed in line with release milestones and entry/exit criteria.
• Drive planning, prioritization, and execution control across UAM deployment activities, including progress tracking, dependency management, risk and issue escalation, and integration with broader program plans.
• Oversee role design quality and compliance health checks before build, before cutover, and after go‑live to confirm alignment with authorization principles, SoD controls, and applicable compliance expectations.
• Manage cutover planning for access deployment activities, including role transport sequencing, user provisioning readiness, emergency access planning, business validation steps, issue escalation, and stakeholder alignment.
• Manage hyper‑care support and transition to steady state, ensuring access issues are prioritized, root causes are understood, remediation actions are tracked, and ownership is clearly handed over to operational teams.
• Provide oversight of SoD risks, sensitive access, and mitigation actions during deployment, ensuring risks are visible, appropriately escalated, and managed to support compliant access enablement in regulated environments.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate UAM deployment KPIs and management reporting, including defect volumes, role readiness, cutover completion, provisioning accuracy, open risks, and hyper‑care stabilization trends.
• Drive continuous improvement of the UAM deployment framework by applying lessons learned from releases to strengthen methodology, controls, templates, deployment efficiency, taxonomy, governance, and the operating model.

Skills

SAP security concepts

SoD concepts

Stakeholder management

Project management

Leadership

English communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Finance/IT/Engineering

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

GRC tools

Identity management tools

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 breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

Finance

Job Sub Function

Risk Management

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations

Bangalore, Karnataka, India; Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India

Job Description

IMFT is the transformation program within Innovative Medicine Finance, dedicated to enabling Finance and its business partners to deliver outstanding value and balanced competitive advantage for our organization, partners, and patients. We are advancing Finance with digital proficiencies and tools to become an informative partner that accelerates decision‑making, optimizes resources, and fuels innovation. Our focus is on identifying what matters most, prioritizing initiatives with real impact, sequencing change strategically, and bringing discipline to our transformation efforts. As a member of IMFT, you’ll be at the heart of delivering an integrated, multi‑functional transformation that optimizes resources, investment allocation, and value creation across the organization.

Role Overview

The IM UAM Deployment Manager provides leadership and delivery accountability for UAM deployment activities within the J&J Innovative Medicine (IM) UAM team. This role is responsible for managing individual Transcend S/4HANA releases and other UAM projects from PI execution through testing, cutover preparation and execution, go‑live, hyper‑care, and transition to steady state. The role combines people leadership, stakeholder management, project governance, issue resolution, and functional expertise in authorization design, Segregation of Duties (SoD), access governance, and compliance within a regulated pharmaceutical environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage UAM deployment delivery for individual Transcend SAP S/4HANA releases in a regulated pharmaceutical environment, ensuring execution of the global UAM deployment strategy in line with deployment milestones, quality expectations, and program governance requirements.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of approximately 3-5 Security Analysts, setting priorities, providing guidance, supporting performance and development discussions, and aligning team activities with J&J and UAM talent development expectations.
• Own UAM deployment readiness across all deployment phases, ensuring persona design, testing, cutover/provisioning, and hyper‑care activities are planned, resourced, monitored, and completed in line with release milestones and entry/exit criteria.
• Drive planning, prioritization, and execution control across UAM deployment activities, including progress tracking, dependency management, risk and issue escalation, and integration with broader program plans.
• Oversee role design quality and compliance health checks before build, before cutover, and after go‑live to confirm alignment with authorization principles, SoD controls, and applicable compliance expectations.
• Manage cutover planning for access deployment activities, including role transport sequencing, user provisioning readiness, emergency access planning, business validation steps, issue escalation, and stakeholder alignment.
• Manage hyper‑care support and transition to steady state, ensuring access issues are prioritized, root causes are understood, remediation actions are tracked, and ownership is clearly handed over to operational teams.
• Provide oversight of SoD risks, sensitive access, and mitigation actions during deployment, ensuring risks are visible, appropriately escalated, and managed to support compliant access enablement in regulated environments.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate UAM deployment KPIs and management reporting, including defect volumes, role readiness, cutover completion, provisioning accuracy, open risks, and hyper‑care stabilization trends.
• Drive continuous improvement of the UAM deployment framework by applying lessons learned from releases to strengthen methodology, controls, templates, deployment efficiency, taxonomy, governance, and the operating model.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or university-level qualification in a relevant field, such as Finance, Supply Chain, IT, or Engineering.
• Minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience in international companies, including at least 5 years of people management or team leadership experience.
• Expertise in business role design and SAP security concepts.
• Demonstrable experience managing ERP deployment programs and project delivery in sophisticated, multi‑functional environments.
• Solid understanding of sophisticated system landscapes and global template design.
• Good knowledge of SAP S/4HANA authorization concepts and familiarity with compliance requirements such as SOX, GxP, IT, and Privacy.
• Experience in SAP S/4HANA implementation projects.
• Specialist knowledge of SAP GRC Access Control, Process Control, and identity management tools.
• Good understanding of SoD, mitigation, and remediation concepts.
• Good knowledge of risk matrix and rule set maintenance.
• Specialist knowledge of data analysis, data conversion, and migration.
• Solid project management, planning, prioritization, and execution leadership skills.
• Ability to lead and empower teams in a virtual or remote working environment.
• Strong collaborator management, communication, collaboration, presentation, and conflict resolution skills.
• Strong analytical, decision‑making, and problem‑solving skills.
• Excellent oral and written English skills.
• Experience influencing and collaborating across large business, IT, security, and compliance organizations.
• Collaborative, value‑based, and outcome‑oriented leadership style with the ability to manage teams, develop talent, and drive accountability.
• Experience establishing or operating UAM governance frameworks, including standards, policies, decision forums, and performance metrics to supervise progress and accountability.
• Experience managing compliance requirements, change impacts, and stakeholder expectations during technology or process transformation programs.

Preferred Skills

• Agility Jumps
• Business Continuity Management (BCM)
• Compliance Frameworks
• Compliance Management
• Financial Analysis
• Financial Risk Management (FRM)
• Internal Controls
• Mentorship
• Process Improvements
• Regulatory Environment
• Risk Assessments
• Risk Measurement
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Systems Thinking
• Tactical Planning
• Technical Credibility

Equal Opportunity Statement

Johnson & Johnson is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.