Senior Manager, IM TranSCend Source

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.

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):

Belgium R-109269, Ireland R-109270, Switzerland R-107702, United States of America R-109271

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Sourcing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

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

Job Description:

Innovative Medicine Supply Chain

Senior Manager, IM TranSCend Source, IM Supply Chain Procurement

About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for Senior Manager, IM TranSCend Source, IM Supply Chain Procurement. The role may be based in North America or Europe, subject to the applicable country posting.

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Job Overview:

The Senior Manager, IM TranSCend Source, will serve as the Business Process Owner for Source within IM Supply Chain Procurement Excellence. The role will own the Innovative Medicine Source process design and associated business requirements, lead decisions within delegated authority, and escalate cross-functional or enterprise-level decisions through established IM TranSCend governance.

The position will lead the design and standardization of direct procurement, translating business requirements into scalable global processes, data, controls, and technology solutions. The role will ensure effective integration with planning, manufacturing, quality, finance, accounts payable, supplier management, and adjacent supply-chain processes.

IM TranSCend is a multi-year global business transformation that will modernize end-to-end supply-chain digital capabilities, standardize core business processes and products, and enable an integrated data strategy through SAP S/4HANA. The Senior Manager will combine strategic procurement experience, operational knowledge, digital acumen, and cross-functional leadership to enable a harmonized global template, successful deployment, sustained adoption, and measurable business value.

Key Responsibilities:

•  Own the Innovative Medicine Source process design and business requirements, ensuring the global solution delivers operational efficiency, compliance, resilience, and measurable value.

•  Make Source design decisions within delegated authority, aligned with the global template, clean-core principles, and enterprise architecture, and escalate cross-functional or enterprise-level matters through program governance.

•  Define and maintain the Source capability roadmap in partnership with Innovative Medicine and enterprise procurement leaders, balancing strategic priorities, business value, and deployment dependencies.

•  Align stakeholders across Procurement, Planning, Global Services, Accounts Payable, Finance, Quality, Compliance, and Technology, advancing global standardization while safeguarding critical local and regulatory requirements.

•  Deliver high-quality business design, including process flows, requirements, and functional specifications, with controls, audit readiness, data integrity, and segregation of duties built in from the start.

•  Set data requirements, ownership, and quality standards for Source, and guide data cleansing, migration, validation, and business acceptance.

•  Lead business simulation and user-acceptance testing, and partner with change-management teams on training, communication, and readiness to secure successful deployment and sustained adoption.

•  Steer deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and risks, resolving issues early or escalating them through program governance, and define the performance measures that confirm sustained business value after deployment.

•  Lead global, cross-functional teams through influence and engage stakeholders from executive leaders to technical experts, connecting design choices to supply continuity, efficiency, compliance, and patient impact.

Qualifications / Requirements:

Education / Certification:

Required

•  Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.

Preferred

•  Advanced degree or MBA.

•  Professional certification in project management, APICS, Lean Six Sigma, process excellence, or a related discipline.

Required Experience and Qualifications:

•  Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, or large-scale business transformation programs.

•  Minimum five years of Source or Plan business experience, with demonstrated knowledge of procurement and operational buying processes.

•  Minimum five years of business-process design, engineering, optimization, or transformation experience.

•  Deep operational knowledge of purchase-to-pay processes in direct procurement, including interfaces with Procurement, Global Services, Accounts Payable, Finance, and adjacent supply-chain functions.

•  Demonstrated experience leading a complex business transformation from process design through testing, deployment, stabilization, and sustained adoption.

•  Experience managing complex program timelines, milestones, interdependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables in a global matrix environment.

•  Ability to translate business priorities into process, data, integration, control, and technology requirements and challenge proposed solutions based on business value and operational impact.

•  Proven ability to influence across functions and organizational levels, establish alignment, and make sound decisions in complex and ambiguous environments.

•  Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.

Preferred Experience and Qualifications:

•  Experience supporting multiple phases of an SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA implementation, including design, build, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement.

•  Experience in strategic procurement, sourcing, contract negotiation and finalization, buying channels, supplier collaboration, or supplier-management capabilities.

•  Experience working in a regulated healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical-technology, or life-sciences environment.

•  Experience working with global business-process templates, enterprise architecture, data governance, business controls, and clean-core design principles.

•  Experience directing external implementation partners or solution providers within a complex transformation program.

Leadership Capabilities:

•  Demonstrated ability to take ownership, establish clear direction, and maintain delivery momentum against demanding transformation milestones.

•  Strong stakeholder-management skills, including the ability to engage senior business leaders and translate strategic priorities into executable process, data, and technology requirements.

•  Ability to work independently, lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and resolve or escalate issues at the appropriate organizational level.

•  Ability to lead global and cross-functional teams through influence and create accountability across organizational boundaries.

•  Strong analytical judgment and the ability to connect detailed design decisions to business outcomes, operational resilience, compliance, value creation, and patient impact.

•  Clear and concise communication, with the ability to adapt the level of detail for executive, functional, operational, and technical audiences.

Key Working Relationships:

•  Global Template Owner, Process Integration Lead, Business Process Owners, IM TranSCend program leadership, deployment leadership, and technology delivery teams.

•  IM Supply Chain Procurement, Source and Plan teams, Manufacturing, Quality, Global Services, Accounts Payable, Finance, Compliance, and enterprise procurement partners.

•  Business process experts, data owners, control owners, change-management and training teams, and site or regional deployment stakeholders.

•  External implementation partners and solution providers, as required.

What We Offer:

•  Competitive salary and benefits, inclusive of performance-based incentives.

•  Opportunities for professional growth within a collaborative global work environment.

•  A commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity in our hiring and workplace practices.

Join us as we continue to innovate and improve the lives of patients worldwide!

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Data Analysis, Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Consulting, Cost Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Facilitation, Market Savvy, Negotiation, Organizing, RFx Management, Risk Management, Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Collaboration, Team Management, Technical Credibility, Vendor Management, Vendor Selection