Associate Director, Transcend R&D BPO Lead

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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 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):

US - Requisition Number: R-070501

Belgium - Requisition Number: R-069382

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

We are searching for the best talent for an Associate Director Transcend R&D BPO Lead role in Beerse Belgium or U.S. (Malvern PA or Horsham PA).

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Innovative Medicine Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational Supplychain processes and harmonize them into one clean ERP as a standardized platform(SAPS4Hana) for growth and efficiency gains.

The program will simplify the Pharm ERP landscape from 7 to 1 standardizing processesto have a cost effective fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharm business with agility.

R&D isan integral part of theIM Transcendprogramin order totransformand standardizerelevantR&D supply chainprocesses to include them within the global IM Transcend Template.

The Transcend R&D program team is currently looking for an Associate Director Transcend R&D Business Process Owner. As the BPO lead you translate business strategies into a capability roadmap aligned to Transcend outcomes and design decisions on Transcend and the digital ecosystem. You partner with Transcend Business Program Owners and Global Template Owners on translating capabilities to the SAP template and driving harmonization and standardization.

Together with R&D key stakeholders you identify business value to prioritize roadmap decisions and drive value realization. You get ahead of the change curve with the business function and ensure alignment to the global template clean core principles and regulatory expectations.

Reporting to the Transcend R&D Program Director this position provides strategic direction on key R&D business processes in advance of and during the Transcend program roll out. You lead a team of 5 BPOs specialized in key R&D business processes relevant for the scope of Transcend.

You will be responsible for:

• Strategic partnering with R&D leadership (global /site)to define the end-to-end process vision and secure decisions on standardization versus local requirements

• With deep functional expertise developing the functional capability vision in alignment with evolving patient and marketplace needs and in support of global function needs

• Engaging with the business for strategic alignment and readiness for the Transcend global template

• Ensuring mandatory R&D requirements are included in the Transcend capability roadmap

• Driving early discussion within the function on alignment to standard global processes

• Getting ahead of release planning to ensure business readiness to prepare for what is coming and/or to propose short-term quick wins

• Partnering with the Global Template Owner to ensure alignment of the global template to business needs in alignment with clean core principles

• Driving cross-functional convergence across Innovative Medicine Supply Chain and R&D TDS and prioritization across functions for what the future process must become and why it creates value (identification and realization)

• Leading R&D global process governance and decision forums; partnering with R&D sites and in-scope functions on strategy and standardization

• Driving continuous improvement post go-live

Key Deliverables:

• R&D Transcend capability roadmap (current/future) including prioritization rationale and alignment to the global template

• End-to-end process vision design principles and documented decisions on standardization vs. local requirements

• Process governance cadence and decision forums (agenda materials decision log and follow-up actions)

• Value realization plan (value hypotheses KPIs/measurement approach)

• Post go-live continuous improvement backlog prioritization and delivery plan

Approximate Percentage of Time & Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities:

• 40% Business strategy and capability roadmaps
• 30% Global process ownership and governance
• 15% Value realization identification and planning
• 10% Continuous process improvements
• 5% Compliance and audits

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree required; advanced degree required in Business or Information Systems Engineering Life Sciences or a related discipline.

• 10 years R&D or supply chain leadership experience (experience in study management logistics planning or manufacturing or with rolling out global template program)

• Proven results in global BPO or transformational leadership

• Experienced in business value realization and measurement

• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive decisions in complex ambiguous global matrix environments.

• Experienced in defining business roadmap based on template capabilities offered (current and future)

• Experience with the requirements of working in a GxP/SOX environment

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate business needs into actionable data outcomes.

• Strong influencing skills

• SAP S/4HANA Supply Chain experience (logistics manufacturing quality management planning procurement)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with change management for complex programs

• Experience with process design methodologies

• Travel up to 15%

Key Working Relationships:

• R&D Leadership functional leaders

• Transcend Program Office Global Template Owners Global Business Process Owners & J&J Technology

• R&D Transcend program team : data template functional strategy and operations communication and change management

• R&D Quality/Compliance

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