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Job Function:
Technology Enterprise Strategy & SecurityJob Sub Function:
Product StrategyJob Category:
People LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:
Leiden, Netherlands, Limerick, Ireland, Lisbon, Portugal, Madrid, Spain, Milano, Italy, Tempo Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom, Warsaw, Masovian, PolandJob Description:
To support the Innovative Medicine Global ERP Platforms and the IM Transcend program, Johnson and Johnson is recruiting for a Strategy Senior Manager.
At Johnson and Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare 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 expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of health care solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/
Job Overview
Sitting within the Technology Innovative Medicine ERP Strategy team, this role will provide strategy support across all Legacy ERPs and Transcend S/4 Hana. They will lead and/or support assigned projects, complex, cross-functional programs and key initiatives, across the Technology Leader group, as well as coordinate communication plans, leader meetings and forums. They will champion change management, drive stakeholder and employee engagement and provide support to key leadership and executive meetings, presentations and engagements.
The role supports leadership for data-driven decision making, to help shape the portfolio strategy, and build partnerships, while ensuring disciplined execution through strong governance, analytics, and project management.
Key Responsibilities
- Strategic PMO: Run programme governance structures, ensuring delivery excellence, de-risking, and alignment to business value.
- Business Case & Value Management: Support and deliver robust business cases for strategic ERP demands, linking technology outcomes to tangible business benefits covering key value streams (OTC, Manufacturing, AT&NPI, Plan, Source etc.)
- Methodology Leadership: Apply leading methodologies such as SAP Activate, Value Lifycycle Manager, and best practices in template management, release management, and process modelling.
- Understand ERP architecture and landscape models, and pharmaceutical supply chain to support the Technology Leader group.
- Understand the portfolio of IT systems that the business uses across supply chain and continuously support strategic decision making through data, technology, and automation.
- Research technology trends and our competitive landscape and provide benchmark and trend analysis to help support Value Enablement.
- Understand the End-to-End digital health strategy and support the creation of a consistent deployment strategy for digital health capabilities.
- Support the Portfolio investment council and the End-to-End funding process.
- Provide written and verbal communications such as status reports, progress reports, creation of dashboards/ documentation for senior stakeholders.
- Strategic Thinking: Support the Technology Leader group on the creation of the strategic vision, helping to align and prioritize Business and IT strategies for the IM Transcend Program.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and abilities:
- A minimum of a Batchelor’s Degree is required.
- Minimum 6-8 years of relevant experience in supply chain systems strategy multi-site environments, multi-system environments.
- Experience working at the intersection of IT and supply chain operations, with the ability to connect business requirements to systems strategy and implementation decisions
- Knowledge of tools such as JIRA, Power BI, and productivity tools as well as low code/no code applications
- Ability to manage large amounts of data and knowledge of data modeling and visualization. Preferably using advanced analytics, and AI to support dashboarding and executive summary.
- Knowledge of Signavio and LeanIX preferred.
- High learning agility and comfort with ambiguity
- Deep understanding of ERP and SAP.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to build business cases, evaluate trade-offs, and present systems strategy recommendations to senior leadership.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Compliance Frameworks, Consulting, Data Science, Data Structures, Developing Others, Digital Fluency, Digital Strategy, Emerging Technologies, Give Feedback, Global Market, Inclusive Leadership, Information Security Management System (ISMS), Information Technology Strategies, Leadership, Negotiation, Product Development, Strategic Thinking, Team ManagementSkills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- 6–8 years of relevant experience in supply chain systems strategy across multisite and multisystem environments
- Experience connecting supply chain business requirements to IT systems strategy and implementation decisions
- Knowledge of JIRA, Power BI, productivity tools, and low-code/no-code applications
- Ability to manage large amounts of data and knowledge of data modeling and visualization
- High learning agility and comfort with ambiguity
- Deep understanding of ERP and SAP
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including business case development, trade-off evaluation, and executive presentations
- Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence experience for dashboarding and executive summaries
- Knowledge of Signavio and LeanIX
- Experience with compliance frameworks, consulting, data science, digital strategy, emerging technologies, information security management systems, negotiation, product development, and strategic thinking
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are portrayed as a major differentiator, combining a 401(k) with employer matching and an employer-funded pension plan. Stock options and other long-term financial supports are also positioned as part of the broader rewards mix.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are presented as notably strong, including paid parental leave for all new parents and additional leave types for caregiving and bereavement. Financial assistance for adoption, fertility treatment, and surrogacy is highlighted as a significant support.
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