SenMgr, IM TranSCend Source

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

4d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Manager, IM TranSCend Source, serves as the Business Process Owner for Source within Innovative Medicine Supply Chain Procurement Excellence. The role owns the Innovative Medicine Source process design and associated business requirements, leads decisions within delegated authority, and escalates cross-functional or enterprise-level decisions through established IM TranSCend governance.

The position leads the design and standardization of direct procurement, translating business requirements into scalable global processes, data, controls, and technology solutions. It ensures effective integration with planning, manufacturing, quality, finance, accounts payable, supplier management, and adjacent supply-chain processes.

IM TranSCend is a multi-year global business transformation intended to modernize end-to-end supply-chain digital capabilities, standardize core business processes and products, and enable an integrated data strategy through SAP S/4HANA. The Senior Manager applies strategic procurement experience, operational knowledge, digital acumen, and cross-functional leadership to enable a harmonized global template, successful deployment, sustained adoption, and measurable business value. The role may be based in North America or Europe and requires travel of up to 25% domestically and internationally.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive experience in Operations, Supply Chain, Procurement, or large-scale business transformation programs.
• Minimum five years of Source or Plan business experience, with demonstrated knowledge of procurement and operational buying processes.
• Minimum five years of business-process design, engineering, optimization, or transformation experience.
• Deep operational knowledge of direct-procurement purchase-to-pay processes, including interfaces with Procurement, Global Services, Accounts Payable, Finance, and adjacent supply-chain functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading a complex business transformation from process design through testing, deployment, stabilization, and sustained adoption.
• Experience managing complex program timelines, milestones, interdependencies, risks, decisions, and deliverables in a global matrix environment.
• Ability to translate business priorities into process, data, integration, control, and technology requirements and challenge proposed solutions based on business value and operational impact.
• Proven ability to influence across functions and organizational levels, establish alignment, and make sound decisions in complex and ambiguous environments.
• Ability to travel up to 25% domestically and internationally.
• Ability to take ownership, establish clear direction, and maintain delivery momentum against demanding transformation milestones.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills, including engaging senior business leaders and translating strategic priorities into executable process, data, and technology requirements.
• Ability to work independently, lead through ambiguity, manage competing priorities, and resolve or escalate issues at the appropriate organizational level.
• Ability to lead global and cross-functional teams through influence and create accountability across organizational boundaries.
• Strong analytical judgment to connect detailed design decisions to business outcomes, operational resilience, compliance, value creation, and patient impact.
• Clear and concise communication, adaptable to executive, functional, operational, and technical audiences.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree or MBA.
• Professional certification in project management, APICS, Lean Six Sigma, process excellence, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting multiple phases of an SAP ERP or SAP S/4HANA implementation, including design, build, testing, deployment, stabilization, and continuous improvement.
• Experience in strategic procurement, sourcing, contract negotiation and finalization, buying channels, supplier collaboration, or supplier-management capabilities.
• Experience in a regulated healthcare, pharmaceutical, medical-technology, or life-sciences environment.
• Experience with global business-process templates, enterprise architecture, data governance, business controls, and clean-core design principles.
• Experience directing external implementation partners or solution providers within a complex transformation program.

Responsibilities

• Own Innovative Medicine Source process design and business requirements, ensuring the global solution delivers operational efficiency, compliance, resilience, and measurable value.
• Make Source design decisions within delegated authority, aligned with the global template, clean-core principles, and enterprise architecture; escalate cross-functional or enterprise-level matters through program governance.
• Define and maintain the Source capability roadmap with Innovative Medicine and enterprise procurement leaders, balancing strategic priorities, business value, and deployment dependencies.
• Align stakeholders across Procurement, Planning, Global Services, Accounts Payable, Finance, Quality, Compliance, and Technology, advancing global standardization while safeguarding critical local and regulatory requirements.
• Deliver business design artifacts, including process flows, requirements, and functional specifications, with controls, audit readiness, data integrity, and segregation of duties built in.
• Set Source data requirements, ownership, and quality standards, and guide data cleansing, migration, validation, and business acceptance.
• Lead business simulation and user-acceptance testing, and partner with change-management teams on training, communication, and readiness for deployment and sustained adoption.
• Steer deliverables, milestones, dependencies, and risks; resolve issues early or escalate through program governance; define measures of sustained business value after deployment.
• Lead global, cross-functional teams through influence and engage stakeholders from executive leaders to technical experts, connecting design choices to supply continuity, efficiency, compliance, and patient impact.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits, inclusive of performance-based incentives.
• Opportunities for professional growth within a collaborative global work environment.
• Commitment to diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunity in hiring and workplace practices.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior