Manager, Transcend IMO

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Latina, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal, Little Island, Cork, Ireland, Madrid, Spain

Job Description:

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 https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine.

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 sector ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes to deliver a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that enables us to support the Innovative Medicine business with agility. It will also remediate end-of-life system exposure expected toward the end of this decade.

We are searching for the best talent for Manager, Transcend IMO. This hybrid role is located in Cork, Ireland. Alternate hybrid locations may be considered at other Innovative Medicine Supply Chain (IMSC) hubs location such as: Madrid, Spain; Latina, Italy; and Lisbon, Portugal.

About the Interdependency Management Office (IMO)

The IMO is the connective tissue between Transcend and the initiatives running across IM portfolios and enterprise functions. It provides a common intake for interdependencies and ERP demand, triages and routes items to the appropriate pathway, supports assessment of Transcend impact, and tracks items through decision and closure in partnership with Transcend and portfolio governance.

Position Summary

The Manager, IMO supports the IMO’s day-to-day operations and contributes functional insight to the assessment of interdependencies between Transcend and other initiatives. The role combines operational rigor (intake, triage, routing, register, cadence, reporting) with functional depth in SAP-enabled supply chain processes, helping assessments explain why a dependency exists, what drives its timing, and what it means for the program.

This role also maintains the IMO’s institutional knowledge: the assessment frameworks, guiding principles, use case library and collaborator network developed through each assessment cycle.

Major Duties and Responsibilities

Interdependency Intake, Triage and Functional Assessment

• Execute the IMO end-to-end process (Identify, Route, Assess and Decide, Integrate, Monitor and Close) for interdependencies and demand raised across IM portfolios and enterprise functions.
• Run the IMO intake: confirm completeness, pre-screen, classify by use case and route to the appropriate pathway (e.g., Strategic Demand, Program/Release or Operate) using the IMO routing logic.
• Coordinate and contribute to Transcend impact assessments for initiatives entering investment governance, including pre-screening projects above $5MM ahead of Investment Review Committee (IRC) cycles.
• Lead the functional impact assessment by engaging the appropriate process owners and subject matter experts to identify affected business processes, system and data impacts, deployment or release considerations, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Apply the IMO assessment workflow, which typically includes functional assessment, scope ownership and deployment owner validation, roadmap versus release classification, funding implications, impact and disposition.
• Probe the underlying business process (what creates the dependency, timing triggers, systems involved, operational impact) to build a complete view beyond initial project responses.
• Translate findings into a clear “so what” for leadership, such as whether an item is roadmap or release scope, whether it is already covered, whether a decision is needed, and the level of risk.

IMO Operations and Process Mechanics

• Maintain the Interdependency Register, including data quality, ownership and status through closure.
• Support the IMO operating cadence, including regular check-ins between interdependent teams, syncs with Strategic Demand and program coordination, and IRC preparation.
• Prepare the IMO scorecard and status reporting for Transcend forums.
• Maintain the intake form, templates, standard operating procedures and handoff standards with receiving pathways.
• Identify practical opportunities to automate intake, routing and reporting (e.g., SharePoint, Power Automate, Power BI) and use AI tools to accelerate analysis and documentation.

Stakeholder and Functional Network

• Build and sustain a network of portfolio points of contact across R&D, Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Quality, Trade, Value Chain Management, Finance and other functions.
• Partner with Global Template and Transcend process owners, deployment leads, Strategic Demand, Ecosystem and architecture review teams to confirm assessors and validate scope.
• Develop working relationships with experienced functional leaders as thought partners to accelerate understanding of complex end-to-end processes.
• Leverage existing governance forums where possible and coordinate requests to subject matter experts to minimize duplication.

Frameworks, Ways of Working and Continuous Improvement

• Document and maintain reusable assessment frameworks developed from casework (e.g., a contract manufacturer (CMO) framework considering principal company ownership, transaction timing relative to go-live, integration requirements, business need date, roadmap or release coverage and potential duplicate setup).
• Maintain the IMO Playbook, use case framework and interdependency type structure, expanding the use case library as new patterns emerge.
• Capture lessons learned from assessment cycles and help refine the end-to-end process with the IMO Lead.
• Coordinate the work of consultant resources supporting the IMO and capture work product in IMO documentation.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Business, Information Systems or a related field.

Required

• Minimum 6 years of demonstrated ability across supply chain operations, SAP-enabled business processes and/or transformation or program delivery.
• Functional SAP background (S/4HANA or ECC) in supply chain processes such as order to cash, procure to pay, plan to produce and master data.
• Working knowledge of end-to-end supply chain (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver), including external manufacturing and intercompany flows.
• Experience running a repeatable operational process (intake, tracking, reporting) with rigor and attention to data quality.
• Demonstrated ability to turn complex multi-functional issues into concise recommendations for senior leaders.
• Ability to influence without authority in a matrixed organization.
• Proficiency in Microsoft applications and SharePoint; working knowledge of Power BI or similar; comfortable using AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot.

Preferred

• Experience on an S/4HANA or ERP consolidation program, including release planning, deployment scope or cutover.
• Pharmaceutical or life sciences experience.
• Experience with external manufacturing, CMO onboarding or supplier integration.
• Exposure to portfolio management, demand management or architecture review processes.
• Lean Six Sigma or project management certification.

Other

• Curiosity: asks follow-up functional questions to understand the business process.
• First-principles thinking: starts with how the process works before debating conclusions.
• A “so what” mindset: frames findings in terms of decisions, scope and risk.
• Operational rigor balanced with the ability to refine a process that is still maturing.
• Sound judgment when managing multiple collaborators and governance cycles.

 

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Expectation Management, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Process Improvements, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Quality Assurance (QA), Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility

  

 

The anticipated pay range for this position, in the primary posting location, is:

€70,100.00 - €121,210.00

 

 

The anticipated pay ranges for additional locations are:

 

Spain – The anticipated base pay range for this position is EUR 61,800- 106,260
Italy – The anticipated base pay range for this position is EUR 56,100- 96,945
Portugal – The anticipated base pay range for this position is EUR 50,500- 86,365

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.