Release Manager Reporting & Analytics

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Porto; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is driving a multi-year global SAP S/4HANA transformation through IM Transcend. The Release Manager Reporting & Analytics role leads data reporting, KPIs, and analytics across releases, ensuring timely, accurate insights for operational excellence.

Ideal candidates have 3+ years in SAP deployment or enterprise deployment, strong BI skills, and knowledge of GMP/GxP, GDPR, and audit requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience with release management in large-scale ERP transformations.
• Experience leading data reporting and business intelligence.
• Understanding of SAP data structures and regulated industries (GxP, GDPR) is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own deployment calendar for reports, KPIs, and analytics across multiple releases.
• Track operational metrics and provide insights to support decision-making.
• Ensure data integrity, consistency, and regulatory compliance of reports.

Skills

Release management

Data reporting

BI / analytics

Cross-functional collaboration

Risk & issue management

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science / Data Management / Engineering / Business / Supply Chain

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

SAP data structures

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

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function

Digital Strategy & Deployment

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Latina, Italy, London, United Kingdom, Madrid, Spain, Porto, Portugal, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland

Job Description

Introduction

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.
IM Transcend is a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will modernize our end-to-end Supply Chain digital capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ecosystem of 7+ major global ERP systems, standardizing our core business processes and products [across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Quality, and Data], and enabling our integrated data strategy through a single SAP S/4 HANA instance.
The Release Manager Reporting & Analytics is a functional role within a large-scale, multi-year global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, with responsibility to manage Reports, KPIs, and Analytics across multiple global releases.
Responsible for managing and delivering accurate, timely, and actionable data reporting for S/4 operations, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving operational excellence. Accountable for developing and maintaining custom analytics within S/4 ensuring the business is prepared and equipped to adopt and leverage these capabilities effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Release/deployment strategy and planning: Own the deployment calendar for reports, KPIs, and analytics across for multiple releases, define scope, timelines with key stakeholders.
• Track key operational metrics and provide insights to support decision-making .
• Ensure integrity, consistency, and compliance of all reported data.
• Work closely with operations teams and stakeholders to understand reporting needs and deliver tailored solutions.
• Identify opportunities to enhance reporting processes and tools for efficiency and scalability.
• Deploy custom analytical repots .
• Ensure UAT and acceptance of reports .
• Lead hypercare for data reporting .
• Ensure handover to final end users.
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Management, Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in SAP deployment or enterprise deployment roles.
• Experience leading data reporting and business intelligence.
• Understanding of SAP data structures.
• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred.
• Understanding of GxP, SOX, audit, CSV, data integrity (ALCOA+), GDPR, and quality requirements.
  

Experience & Skills

• Release management fundamentals: Building and maintaining release calendars, playbooks, and rollback plans, coordinating cross-team dependencies, change management, coordinate post-release reviews, incident management and root-cause analysis tied to releases.
  

Experience supporting testing cycles SIT/BST/UAT.

• Strong knowledge of analytical reporting, datasets, KPIs, and BI platform deployment.
• Proven ability to communicate in a complex matrix environment.
• Skills in risk management, issue resolution.
  

Required Skills

Preferred Skills:

Alliance Formation, Analytical Reasoning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Augmented Reality (AR), Business Case Modeling, Business Savvy, Collaboration, Digital Applications, Digital Fluency, Digital Channels, Digital Strategy, Disruptive Innovations, Change Management, Innovation, Process Improvements, Strategic Change, Technical Credibility, Web Usability