J& J Innovative Medicine is recruiting a Technical Product Owner – Operate to join their team. The role is to be located in the United States (preferred location Titusville, NJ) .

This position is being recruited to support the Pharma IM TranSCend program, a global business transformation initiative designed to modernize and standardize foundational transactional processes. The program aims to simplify the current ERP landscape from seven systems down to one, creating a cost-effective, standardized digital platform to support the business with greater agility.

What we offer:

At the Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine (JJIM), we are working to create a world without disease. Transforming lives by finding new and better ways to prevent, intercept, treat and cure disease inspires us. We bring together the best minds and pursue the most promising science. We collaborate with the world for the health of everyone in it.

JJIM Transcend is looking for a strong leader who can define Operate roadmap, prioritize new technical capabilities and/or enhancements to our SAP S/4 product in operations and will be responsible for technical delivery and value realization in steady state operations in partnership with the Business stakeholders.

The successful candidate will be a member of the JJIM Supply Chain JJT team, focusing on the intake, orchestration, refinement, delivery, and capacity management of demands raised in steady state operations. This role is key to ensuring seamless alignment between various business and technology stakeholders across operate/ steady state operations and program team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Requirements & Backlog Management: Take ownership of the Operate Demand intake, shaping and prioritizing the backlog. Balance business value with technical feasibility when prioritizing stories and features to optimize cost and improve delivery efficiency. Refine the backlog by adding technical features and epics for best-in-class product operations. Help Product Owners prioritize their backlogs, lead product / platform constraints; resolve cross-team dependencies.

• Solution Design: Lead the translation of business requirements into technical solutions. Drive the selection of solution options and work with the Functional and Technical Engineers to assess technical elements before user testing. Ensure the solution meets organizational needs by identifying and understanding business needs related to integrations and configurations. Drive approach for automation testing and regression testing

• Delivery & Governance: Facilitate release planning and stakeholder demos. Be accountable for managing the integrated build with program and operate team to ensure the end-to-end solution is compliant and works as designed. Take ownership of governance, security, and CR/CO approvals for demands. Serve as the custodian of the Operate methodology for demand execution, leveraging the Program's methodology and governance approvals. Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensures SDLC documentation, system configuration and compliance activities are up to date.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Facilitate and ensure alignment among diverse stakeholders, including Business Product Owners, Global Template Owners (GTOs), Technology Services (TS), and strategic vendor partners across the entire operate state. Responsible for bridging communication gaps and fostering a collaborative environment to ensure a unified approach to demand management and delivery in steady state operations.

• Financial Management: Handle all financial aspects related to vendors and suppliers, including managing Statements of Work (SOWs), finance, purchase orders, and invoice processes. This requires close coordination with the J& J finance team to ensure all financial transactions are accurate, compliant, and well-documented.

• Leadership: Shape the squad's vision and roadmap, steering the team to deliver products and features with a focus on business impact. Drive continual measurement of capabilities against demand volume, complexity, business challenges and improvement within value stream(s). Help Shape and Grow JJT organization to enable a global intake, build and sustain process that will drive parallel program releases and on-going operations, projects and enhancements as TranSCend goes live. Foster an environment of continuous improvement and innovation.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

• Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree

• Preferred Area of Study: Information Technology, Supply Chain

Experience and Skills:

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive, relevant work experience is required.

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant SAP experience is required, with a deep understanding of its technical and functional capabilities.

• Knowledge and understanding of standard practices, technology, functions and supporting industry principles in SAP ERP and Pharma Industry.Understanding the end-to-end business process linkages across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Finance and Master Data.

• Experience gathering requirements and translating into a product vision through deep expertise in product development, engineering, operations and UX

• Deep understanding and experience in high quality product delivery, including planning, dependency management, and delivery execution & governance

• Deep understanding of the business needs, including sufficient knowledge of business processes, relevant value drivers, and industry trends

• Demonstrable experience in leading a product backlog/release plan, supervising team level metrics, leading product team ceremonies, removing blockers

• Demonstrated strong knowledge of SOX and GxP compliance regulations is required.

• Extensive experience with Agile methodology and a solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle Management (SDLC) model and related documentation is essential.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, cross-functional team environment.

• Strong problem-solving skills with ability of accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Leadership Skills & Behaviors

• This role requires extensive internal and external collaboration. You will work closely with multiple JJIM Business and Technology cross functional global teams supporting applications in the ERP ecosystem, and external vendors supporting the program.

Other:

• 10 % Travel percentage

• English Proficiency is required

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