Technical Product Manager ERP Global Trade

Myddle, England, United Kingdom

12/17/2024

Description:

To support their Innovative Medicines Transcend program, Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for Technical Product Manager ERP Logistics Global Trade. The role is to be located in the United States (preferred location Titusville NJ) or in EMEA (preferred location Beerse BE). This position has the potential to be located at another J&J facility within the US or EMEA for the right talent.

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 https://www.jnj.com/.

Innovative Medicines 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 Innovative Medicines ERP landscape from 7 platforms to 1, standardizing processes to drive a cost effective, fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Innovative Medicines business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

This role will shape and deliver the Innovative Medicines global template for the ERP Global Trade Compliance processes and enable new capabilities for emerging supply chain needs within IM E2E Supply Chain (R&D, Clinical and Commercial)

The position leads design and delivery of SAP S/4HANA and GTS4HANA capabilities in the Global Trade space and governs the J&J IM template while driving the capabilities' evolution through the deployments within the ERP Logistics domain and must connect across functional domains to enable an End-to-End integrated solution.

The Technical Product Manager ERP Logistics Global Trade will be an active member of the IM Supply Chain JJT team, driving global standardization within Innovative Medicines ERP technology solutions and taking ownership of the corresponding ERP solutions:

• Product Trade Classification
• Global Trade Compliance (License Management, Embargo, SPL Screening)
• Trade Preferences / Free Trade Agreements.
  
  

This role must work on close collaboration with parallel programs currently on going within J&J.

The Technical Product Manager ERP Logistics Global Trade will be an active member of the ERP Logistics JJT team and will lead JNJ internal team and consultants within this scope while partnering with other J&J Technology functions to drive global standardization within Innovative Medicines ERP technology solutions. The role will fundamentally lead all aspects of platform governance, continuous improvement & efficiencies across its scope, enabling strategic capabilities and innovation, human centered design, and platform integration across our digital ecosystem. The role will partner with the Innovative Medicines Transcend business process owners, Transcend Technical Product Managers and Owners, ecosystem owners and various vendor partners to ensure end to end capabilities are supported and evolved. The role will operate closely with the Innovative Medicines Transcend deployment organization to grow and evolve the capabilities as business and regional deployments are implemented.

Key Responsibilities:

Roadmap & Backlog

• Own vision and prioritization of new technical features and/or enhancements for Trade Compliance and Trade Preferences to meet business needs.
• Establish technology roadmaps to achieve efficient & effective delivery of business & customer value for Intercompany requirements.
• Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing features, optimizing cost, and improving delivery efficiency.
• Further refine the backlog by adding necessary technical features and epics; work with Suppliers and Product owners, with regard to supplier delivered capacity & architectural integration is understood.
• Help Product Owners prioritize their backlogs, handle product / platform constraints, and resolve cross-team dependencies; lead demand intake as required.
  
  

Solutioning

• Accountable for solution design and implementation for Global Trade Compliance processes for Innovative Medicines Supply Chain on the ERP platform and the integration with the ERP ecosystem
• Drive business process standardization and strategies to drive best in class design
• Effectively engage with business and functional teams in providing the best fit technical solutions while aligning to Transcend program design and implementation standards
• Drive selection of product / platform solution options, work with the Engineering team to assess tech elements of the solution prior to user testing and to balance tech debt
  
  

Delivery

• Accountable to lead the integrated solution build and deployment
• Responsible or planning and execution of Technical Testing and support business workstream lead to plan and implement Business Simulation and User Acceptance Testing
• Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensures SDLC documentation, system configuration and compliance activities are up to date as required.
• Drive continual measurement of capabilities against demand volume, complexity, business challenges and improvement within value stream(s)
  
  

Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
  
  

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience is required.
• Strong Knowledge of Supply Chain Logistics business processes and the end-to-end business processes linkages to Sales Order Management, Make, Quality, Plan, Finance and Data processes.
• Solid Understanding of SAP-ERP Logistics technical capabilities
  
  

Preferred:

Domain Expertise

• Strong Knowledge of SAP GTS technical capabilities
• Exposure to Advanced Therapies and Clinical distribution processes
• Exposure to Global Trade Compliance processes
• Experience in Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare industry and good Knowledge of SOX & GxP compliance regulations.
• Experience with Agile methodology and Software Development Lifecycle Management model and documentation.
  
  

Leadership Skills & Behaviors

• Learning agility, flexible, thriving on change and able to adapt to it
• Focuses on Business agility, Agile delivery with a fail-fast mentality, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in leading multi-functional self-organized teams.
• Experience working in a regional / global environment and leading teams and managing stakeholders across multiple countries.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally.
• Chips in ideas that challenge thinking.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability of accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to handle changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• A constant learner, looking for new ways to implement features and functions that builds higher levels of customer satisfaction
  
  

Other:

• English Fluency is required
• 25% Travel may be required depending on the program needs (national and international)
  
  

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.

The anticipated base pay range for those in the United States is $120,000 to $207,000 USD.

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.

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• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits