Senior Manager, Solution Architecture - S4H

Please make an application promptly if you are a good match for this role due to high levels of interest.

Johnson & Johnson Technology is currently seeking a SAP-S4H Solution Architect for our Innovative Medicine Transcend Program.

This IT Senior Manager role is to be located in New Jersey, United States (preferred location Titusville NJ) or EMEA (preferred location Beerse BE).

Innovative Medicine Transcend is a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will modernize our end-to-end Pharmaceutical Supply Chain foundational capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ecosystem of 7 major J&J IM ERP systems, standardizing our core business processes and products across Plan, Source, Logistics, Make, Quality, Order Management, Supply Chain Finance and Data, and enabling our integrated data strategy through a single SAP S / 4 HANA instance.

As part of the technology team of the Innovative Medicine Transcend Program, you will be accountable for working with a team of functional experts in driving the Solution integration between Supply Chain functions to ensure that solutions support end to end business processes and requirements while maintaining the integrity and reliability of the ERP template.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design Methodology and Governance : Own improvement and adherence of design methodology and governance for the program.
• Cross functional Solution Design : Own cross functional design topics end-to-end. Drive design for highly complex topics from the gathering of requirements to end-to-end solutioning, including technical architecture, cross workstreams.
• Quality of design : Own Quality of design by leading design governance boards. Actively improve the overall design by educating on good design principles, challenging solutions and drive a clean core template approach.
• Cross functional conflicts : Own management, resolution and reporting for cross-functional conflicts and dependencies. Attend the Scrum of Scrums to support decision making on impediments.
• Design readiness : Own design readiness, the methodology, the involved KPI’s and provide status reporting, for Business User Story Writing, Process Design, Key Design Decisions and Solution Road-mapping.
• Assessments : Lead assessments for Capital Appropriation Requests, release scheduling and program execution.

Qualifications

Education :

• Minimum Bachelor's degree required, advanced degree or MBA highly desirable.
• Preferred area of study : Information Technology, Supply Chain.
• Certification in areas of expertise as S4H are preferred.

Experience and Skills :

Required :

• Minimum 10 years relevant work experience.
• Minimum overall 8 years relevant hands-on SAP experience in at least 3 functional areas (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Finance).

Preferred :

• Deep End-to-End understanding of Supply Chain flows in multinational operations and how primary functions integrate with one another (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Finance, Master Data) from process and solution point of view.
• Strong Knowledge of SAP-ERP integration across Planning, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution and Financial Accounting and System Integration with the ERP ecosystem.

Applied knowledge of S / 4 HANA is preferred.

• Experience in Pharmaceuticals / Healthcare industry and good Knowledge of SOX & GxP compliance regulations.
• Experience in large scale cross regional business transformation programs, Agile methodology and solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle Management model and documentation.
• Demonstrated success in leading multi-functional topics without authority. Experience in collaborating with partners in both business and IT organizations.

Good communication and influencing skills.

• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.
• Flexibility, thriving on change and able to adapt to it. Solid sense of urgency and ability to handle changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Other :

• Language requirements : English professional proficiency.
• Travel percentage : 10% international travel.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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