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**Job Function: **
Technology Product & Platform Management
**Job Sub Function: **
Technical Product Management
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
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.
About Transcend
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 Pharmaceutical ERP landscape from seven systems to one, standardizing processes to create a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that enables agility and scalability across the business.
Additionally, Transcend will remediate end-of-life system exposure expected toward the end of this decade, reducing risk while enabling long-term sustainability.
Role Purpose
The Functional Deployment Lead – POM / MAKE is accountable for the global deployment of Manufacturing Execution–related capabilities within the Transcend SAP S/4HANA program. This role owns the end-to-end implementation of the Manufacturing functional scope, ensuring alignment with the global process template, regulatory requirements, and SAP Clean Core principles.
As a people manager, this role leads a team of functional SMEs and analysts, owning functional delivery, workload prioritization, and execution quality, while remaining sufficiently hands-on to challenge designs, support testing, and guide issue resolution.
Major Duties & Responsibilities
Global Functional Ownership & Deployment
· Own the global deployment of POM / MAKE-related capabilities within the SAP S/4HANA template, including SAP–MES (PAS-X) integration, PLM-driven engineering change processes, master data validity controls, Manufacture at Risk, and new product introduction enablement.
· Lead solution confirmation activities with Global Template Owners, ensuring deployments remain aligned to the approved global design and regulatory standards.
· Ensure deployment follows SAP Clean Core principles, leveraging standard configuration and approved extensibility patterns only where legally or regulatorily required.
Leadership & Team Management
· Directly manage functional SMEs and analysts supporting the POM / MAKE scope, owning workload planning, prioritization, and quality of deliverables.
· Provide functional leadership and coaching, ensuring the team can execute detailed design, testing, and deployment activities effectively.
· Act as the primary functional escalation point for POM / MAKE-related topics within Transcend.
Solution Delivery, Testing & Hypercare
· Oversee functional design validation, configuration reviews, integration readiness, and data dependencies across SAP and connected manufacturing systems.
· Lead the functional execution of testing phases, including Functional Testing and User Acceptance Testing, and support validation activities in alignment with GxP and SDLC expectations.
· Own functional support during hypercare, ensuring issues are triaged, resolved, and incorporated into continuous improvement of the global template.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
· Work closely with other Functional Deployment Leads to ensure integrated end-to-end process execution.
· Partner with IT, system integrators, validation teams, and change management to ensure successful adoption of Manufacturing capabilities.
Qualifications
Required
· At least six years of professional experience.
· University degree or equivalent experience in Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, IT, or a related scientific discipline.
· Significant experience in Manufacturing Execution, ERP–MES integration, and SAP Manufacturing-related processes in a GxP-compliant environment.
· Proven people management experience with accountability for functional delivery through teams of SMEs.
· Strong functional knowledge of SAP S/4HANA Manufacturing capabilities and integration patterns.
· Ability to remain hands-on when required while maintaining accountability for overall functional outcomes.
Preferred
· Experience with PAS-X or similar MES platforms.
· Prior involvement in global ERP transformations within the Life Sciences industry.
Other
Ability to travel up to 50% of the time both domestically and internationally.
Johnson & Johnson is an 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, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Give Feedback, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Organizing, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Improvements, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$102,000.00 - $177,100.00
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