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Job Function:

Enterprise Management

Job Sub Function:

Technology Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for an ERP Deployment Lead Finance & VCM, located in Titusville NJ, USA.

In support of their Innovative Medicine Transcend program, Johnson & Johnson is recruiting an **ERP Deployment Lead Finance & VCM **(Value Chain Management). The role is to be located in New Jersey, United States (preferred location Titusville NJ) or EMEA (preferred locations Beerse BE and Zug CH).

At J&J 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 J&J Innovative Medicine. We collaborate with the world for the health of everyone in it. Learn more at www.innovativemedicine.jnj.com and follow us @JNJInnovativeMedicine.

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.

As part of the IM Transcend program, we are looking for a strong leader that can set direction and can drive deployment of ERP Finance & VCM capabilities to support our Innovative Medicine Supply Chain business, based on proven knowledge and experience in the fields of Financial Operations, Supply Chain Integration, Intercompany Sales and Toll Manufacturing, and a solid understanding of End to End Supply Chain ERP flows. The role will be an active member of the IM Supply Chain JJT team, driving global standardization of ERP technology solutions within Innovative Medicine.

The ERP Deployment Lead will focus on deployment activities for specific program releases, including but not limited to:

• Gathering of localization requirements and design of specific regional, site or function requirements in scope of a program release.
• Aligning business and technology roadmaps across IM Transcend and relevant interdependent programs for the release.
• Ensuring a future-proof solution design 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 Responsibilities:

Requirements & Roadmap

• Engage with business and technology community to gather localization requirements in scope of a program release. Support business owners with the definition of process flows and business requirements.
• Manage Fit-Gap assessment versus template solution and high-level design of specific regional, site or function requirements. Collaborate with technology product owners to manage KDD’s and identify the required RICEF’s.
• Align business and technology roadmaps across IM Transcend and relevant interdependent programs and manage the high-level milestone plan for the release.
• Formalize the release scope and effort assessment and align with all the relevant program stakeholders across the business and technology ecosystem.

Future-proof solution design

• Engage with business and functional teams in providing the best fit technical solutions while aligning to the IM Transcend template design and implementation standards.
• Support selection of product/platform solution options, work with the Product teams to assess tech elements of the solution prior to user testing and to balance tech debt.
• 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.

Testing & Deployment

• Coordinate planning and execution of System Integration Testing across functional teams (SIT); Support business workstream leads to plan and complete 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 deployment activities 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.
• Foster an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

• Required Minimum Education : Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Preferred Area of Study: Information Technology, Supply Chain, Finance
• Required Years of Related Experience: A minimum of 6 years of relevant work experience; a minimum of 4 years relevant SAP experience; a minimum of 4 years relevant Pharma experience.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

Domain Expertise

• Deep End-to-End understanding of Supply Chain FINANCE business processes, such as: Sourcing of direct Materials, Subcontracting Processes, Toll Manufacturing, Invoice to Cash, Intercompany Sales
• Strong knowledge of SAP-ERP FINANCE technical capabilities and integration with Supply Chain functions. Understanding of: Various Deliver scenarios such as rebate processing, Credit Management, On invoice/ Off invoice discount; Inco Terms and its impact on Revenue Recognition; Make to stock and make to order scenarios.
• 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 newest modules (SAP Supply Chain Collaboration, SAP intelligent Clinical Supply Management)
• 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%

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.

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