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: **
Project/Program Management Group
**Job Sub Function: **
Project/Program Management
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Singapore, Singapore
Job Description:
Senior Manager, MTSC Transformation APAC will lead governance, execution and value realization activities delivering Supply Chain MTSC Optimization agenda.
This role is responsible for ensuring APAC MTSC Optimization strategy and execution, savings targets, structure assumptions, and transformation initiatives remain credible, aligned, governed, and executable across the enterprise.
The position serves as the central governance and challenge function for MT Optimize, partnering closely with transformation leadership, network strategy, finance, logistics, procurement, commercial, regional and global counterparts and stakeholders to ensure optimization initiatives deliver sustainable enterprise value.
The role requires both strategy and execution –
Optimization governance, commitment integrity, prioritization, executive decision support, and value realization management;
Lead and drive execution, ensuring on time deliverables against KPIs and financials.
The role will also be a partner and support transformation initiatives, including effective and impactful Orthopedics separation whilst accountable to ensure APAC MTSC continues to transform, optimize towards a simplified, efficient and effective organization whilst ensuring growth, service and costs.
Strategic Value Proposition
This role is pivotal in delivering enterprise optimization credibility by ensuring MT Optimize initiatives, commitments, and transformation priorities remain strategically aligned, operationally executable, and financially credible across the MTSC Optimize transformation agenda.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
MT Optimize Governance and Execution
- Lead governance processes supporting the enterprise MT Optimize agenda
- Maintain oversight of optimization commitments, savings assumptions, and structure alignment
- Establish governance mechanisms to validate initiative feasibility, dependencies, and execution readiness
- Drive prioritization and challenge processes across optimization initiatives
- Lead and drive projects and deliverables, ensuring overall MT Optimize agenda and targets remains intact
Value Realization & Commitment Integrity
- Monitor optimization commitments and value realization progress
- Ensure consistency and integrity across savings assumptions, operational impacts, and deployment plans
- Partner with finance and functional stakeholders to validate optimization opportunities and risks
- Support enterprise tracking of cost, inventory, productivity, and operational benefits
Executive Decision Support
Prepare executive optimization reviews and governance materials
Provide structured analysis and recommendations supporting enterprise prioritization decisions
Support escalation management and trade-off discussions across initiatives
Ensure executive visibility to risks, dependencies, and optimization performance
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- MTSC Transformation Orthopedics Separation
- Global MTSC Transformation Office
- MT Optimize Governance
- Region Logistics Operations Leads
- Region Functional SC Leads
- Region / Global Procurement
- Region Network Strategy
- Finance
- Commercial Leadership
- External: Consultants
QUALIFICATION
Minimum Required Experience
Bachelor of Business / Science / Engineering / Supply Chain
Master of Business Administration
10+ years of experience in supply chain strategy, transformation, finance, consulting or operational optimization
Proven experience in leading Logistics / Operations / Plan / Make and delivering transformational initiatives
Strong governance, stakeholder management, and executive communication capabilities
Must have regional experience in managing large-scale transformation or optimization initiatives
Problem solving mentality and “can do” attitude. Able to analyze multiple data sources in high pressure environments to give prompt recommendations & solutions
Ability to influence across complex matrix organizations
Strong communication skills, ability to articulate and simplify situation and issues with clear actions to all stakeholders to instill trust and confidence
Demonstrated ability to thrive and drive execution in highly matrixed environments, effective in working in a “pod” environment
Preferred Experience
MedTech, healthcare, pharma or complex regulated industry experience
Exposure to network optimization or supply chain transformation initiatives
Experience in value realization, transformation governance, or operational strategy
Experience supporting business separations, integrations, or large-scale transformation programs
Exposure to network optimization, supply chain strategy, or ERP transformation programs
PMP, Lean Six Sigma, ADKAR certification is desirable
LEADERSHIP PROFILE
Successful candidate shall demonstrate the following with proven track record:
- undefined
- **Strong business judgment **– ability to balance strategic ambition, operational practicality, financial realities, organization readiness. Demonstrated sound decision-making under ambiguity and can appropriately assess trade-odds across cost, service, risk, complexity and transformation timing.
Enterprise mindset – Think beyond functional / regional boundaries to optimize outcomes for the broader enterprise. Able to connect supply network strategy, transformation priorities, commercial implications, operational impacts and financial commitments.
undefined
Structured governance orientation – Demonstrated disciplined governance and prioritization capabilities across complex transformation initiatives. Able to establish clear governance mechanisms, accountable structures, escalation pathways, prioritization frameworks and decision-making rigor.
undefined
Executive communication skills – Able to communicate complex transformation, optimization and operational topics clearly and concisely to senior leadership. Demonstrated confidence and credibility in executive forums through structured messaging, data-driven recommendations, concise storytelling and balanced risk articulation. Capable of simplifying ambiguity into actionable executive decisions.
undefined
Cross-functional influence – Build strong collaboration relationship across organization, able to influence outcomes in highly matrixed environments without relying on direct authority. Demonstrated strong stakeholder management and alignment-building capabilities across diverse leadership groups.
Operational / technical experience – must be able to manage complexity and be prepared to be involved in operational and technical issues at a detailed level.
undefined
Financial and operational acumen – Possesses strong understanding of transformation economics, savings realization, operational trade-offs, inventory and service implications, network cost drivers, implementation complexity. Able to connect operational decisions to enterprise value realization, financial performance and long-term operating model sustainability.
**Analytics and fact-based - **Able to analyze complex issues and use critical thinking skills, problem solving skills and sound judgement
undefined
Ability to challenge constructively – Demonstrated confidence to appropriately challenge assumptions, commitments, timelines and optimization proposals while maintaining strong collaborative relationships. Able to ask difficult questions, identify risks early, drive healthy debate, and improve decision quality.
undefined
Transformation agility – Comfortable in operating in face-paced, evolving transformation environments with competing priorities and organizational ambiguity. Demonstrated resilience and adaptability while maintaining governance discipline and execution focus across multiple concurrent initiatives.
undefined
Strategic learning orientation – Continuously seeks to improve enterprise transformation effectiveness by identifying process simplification opportunities, governance improvement, organizational efficiencies and strategic optimization insights. Demonstrated curiosity and forward-thinking orientation towards future-state supply chain evolution.
Matrix organization - The candidate must know how to maneuver in a matrix organization, i.e. how to optimize our resources and knowledge, partnering with cross-functional peers and local/regional team mates to deliver results.
undefined
**Our Credo **– fully embody our J&J Company Credo values and ethics
undefined
Compliance focus - Must have a strong, no compromise to compliance and quality driven mindset.
SUCCESS MEASURES
- Transformation milestone achievement
- Separation readiness and stabilization
- Cross-functional alignment effectiveness
- Executive governance effectiveness
- Deployment acceleration
- Risk mitigation effectiveness
- Stakeholder confidence and engagement
- Operations KPIs
- Financials - cost-to-serve, cost % NTS, CIPs
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS/WORKING CONDITIONS:
The job requires occasional travel and absence from home.
**(Please include % of travel required based on scope) **5-10%
**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Agile Decision Making, Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Business Alignment, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility