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About Innovative Medicine

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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.

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):

United States - Requisition Number: R-066981

Belgium - Requisition Number: R-066143

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

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Role Purpose

The Functional Deployment Lead POM / MAKE is accountable for the global deployment of Manufacturing Executionrelated 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 SAPMES (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 ERPMES 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.

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