IM Transcend, Technology Deployment Leader

J&J Family of Companies; Breda; Hybrid; EUR 119,000 - 204,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Technology Deployment Leader for the IM Transcend program, located across Beerse (Belgium) or Titusville (USA). The role focuses on modernizing ERP and supply chain capabilities with SAP S/4HANA, leading a global team, and ensuring compliant, end-to-end delivery.

The candidate will collaborate with senior leaders across IM supply chain, define roadmaps, and drive platform governance while aligning with business strategy and data integration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• 15+ years of experience in product/technical management.
• Deep knowledge of SAP ERP and pharma industry practices.
• Experience translating requirements into product visions and backlogs.
• Strong backlog governance and release planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish deployment roadmaps for value delivery.
• Balance business value with technical feasibility.
• Refine product backlogs with epics and features.
• Lead product owners and cross-functional teams.
• Drive automation testing and non-functional requirement validation.
• Ensure SDLC documentation and compliance.

Skills

Bachelor's Degree

15+ years experience

SAP ERP

Pharma Industry knowledge

Requirements gathering

Product backlog management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

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 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

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function

Technical Product Management

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Breda, Netherlands

Job Description

We are searching for the best talent for a Technology Deployment Leader to support our IM Transcend program. The role can be located in either Beerse, BE or Titusville, NJ.

An internal pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However, all applications will be considered.

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 (Titusville, NJ) - Requisition Number: R-101370
• Netherlands or Belgium (Beerse) - Requisition Number: R-101664

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 in order 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.

The Director will be a part of the IM Transcend JJT Leadership team, in a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will modernize our end-to-end Supply Chain digital capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ERP ecosystem, standardizing our core business processes and products [across Plan, Source, Make, Quality, Deliver, Finance and Data], and enabling our integrated data strategy through a single SAP S/4 HANA instance.

This individual must leverage a refined, multi-functional toolset of expertise with the SAP S/4 family of products, supply chain business expertise, process improvement, execution of transformative initiatives, global deployments, and digital acumen to effectively interact with a breadth of business stakeholders and global process owners. The position will partner closely with senior leaders within IM supply chain to ensure the evolving business requirements are being considered and met through optimal use of digital capabilities.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Establish deployment roadmaps to achieve efficient & effective delivery of business & customer value for assigned product / platform
• Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing features, optimizing cost and improving delivery efficiency
• Refine the backlog by adding technical features and epics for best-in-class product operations
• Help Product Owners prioritize their backlogs, lead product / platform constraints; resolve cross-team dependencies; lead demand intake
• Work in close partnership with the Product Owner and Engineer roles to handle risk in backlog
• Drive approach for automation testing, regression testing and load testing, ensuring non-functional requirements are tested.
• Accountable to lead the integrated build with Product team to ensure the end-to-end build of a particular part of a solution is compliant and works as designed.
• Planning and execution of Technical Testing by Engineering team; Support business workstream lead to plan and complete User Acceptance Testing
• Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensures SDLC documentation, system configuration and compliance activities are up to date.
• Drive continual measurement of capabilities against demand volume, complexity, business challenges and improvement within value stream(s)
• Building strong partnerships with business at different levels of the impacted organizations to understand the business’s needs and priorities.
• Partner with Technology Services on the software engineering approach to sustain the solutions.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• A minimum of a Bachelor's Degree is required
• Must have at least 15 years of experience
• Must have knowledge and understanding of standard practices, technology, functions and supporting industry principles in SAP ERP and Pharma Industry.
• Experience gathering requirements and translating into a product vision through deep expertise in product development, engineering, operations and UX
• Must have deep understanding and experience in high quality product delivery, including planning, dependency management, and delivery execution & governance
• Deep understanding of the business needs, including sufficient knowledge of business processes, relevant value drivers, and industry trends
• Demonstrable experience in leading a product backlog/release plan, supervising team level metrics, leading product team ceremonies, removing blockers (burndown chart, release burn up)

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is

€119,200.00 - €204,355.00

Benefits

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.