Transcend: Manager, Plan Workstream Leader, MedTech – Dynamo Deployment
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Summary
Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one clean ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains. This program will simplify the Med Tech ERP landscape, standardizing processes to have a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that will enable the MedTech business to support with agility.
Job description
About MedTech / Transcend Program
Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one clean ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains. This program will simplify the Med Tech ERP landscape, standardizing processes to have a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that will enable the MedTech business to support with agility.
We are seeking a Plan WorkStream Leader to play a critical role in ensuring the pre-defined global Transcend Order-to-Cash (OTC) template effectively supports the North America plan business processes for DC network strategies. This role is duration based and will conclude on or around March 2029. This role partners with functional and cross-functional teams to represent Plan requirements, validate template build decisions, and ensure solutions are practical, scalable, and adoption-ready for end users. The role champions the Transcend Dynamo solution within Plan, guiding process alignment, testing, and change enablement to ensure readiness, consistency, and successful deployment. The position will directly lead a team comprised of process leads and Plan SMEs representing the various business units in scope for North America.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead Plan participation in solution confirmation workshops, ensuring alignment to order management and plan requirements
- Serve as a plan business representative, providing guidance on global, local, and specialized process requirements and resolving functional questions
- Drive plan change impact assessment and readiness planning across the O2C deployment
- Represent plan in system demos and design reviews, providing structured, strategic feedback
- Oversee plan data readiness, including data cleansing, validation, and deployment preparedness
- Define and govern plan test scenarios to support end-to-end O2C validation
- Lead validation activities for the plan workstream through integrated testing and business simulations
- Assess and communicate solution impacts to Plan KPIs, service levels, and customer experience
- Ensure Plan SOPs are updated, completed, and approved prior to deployment
- Provide leadership support for cutover planning, training execution, post-go-live deployment, and early-life stabilization activities
Qualifications
- Minimum five (5) years of related business experience in Supply Chain or Order to Cash Processes
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree
- Subject-matter expertise in Plan and Order-to-Cash capabilities within an SAP environment
- Ability to drive timely decision-making and execution against defined plans while managing risk and dependencies
- Strong self-leadership, with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, manage competing demands, and demonstrate resilience during transformation
- Ability to balance and align diverse stakeholder priorities to enable consistent process adoption and business readiness
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess current-state processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and drive continuous improvement
- Proficiency with SAP including modules relevant to the Value Stream (i.e. Allocation Management, Inventory Planning, Order Fulfillment)
Preferred
- Experience in the MedTech industry
Other
Ability to travel up to 20% of the time both domestically and internationally.
Requirements
- Minimum five (5) years of related business experience in Supply Chain or Order to Cash Processes
- A minimum of a Bachelor's degree
- Subject-matter expertise in Plan and Order-to-Cash capabilities within an SAP environment
- Ability to drive timely decision-making and execution against defined plans while managing risk and dependencies
- Strong self-leadership, with the ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, manage competing demands, and demonstrate resilience during transformation
- Ability to balance and align diverse stakeholder priorities to enable consistent process adoption and business readiness
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess current-state processes, identify gaps and inefficiencies, and drive continuous improvement
- Proficiency with SAP including modules relevant to the Value Stream (i.e. Allocation Management, Inventory Planning, Order Fulfillment)
- Ability to travel up to 20% of the time both domestically and internationally
Benefits
- Pension plan
- 401(k) savings plan
- Long-term incentive program
- Vacation
- Sick time
- Holiday pay
- Floating holidays
- Work, personal and family time
- Parental leave
- Bereavement leave
- Caregiver leave
- Volunteer leave
- Military spouse time-off
Company overview
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is the pharmaceutical division of Johnson & Johnson, leading the way in medical innovation with a relentless focus on bringing transformational treatments to patients worldwide. The company applies rigorous science and compassion to address the most complex diseases of our time, developing groundbreaking medicines across key therapeutic areas including oncology, immunology, neuroscience, and cardiopulmonary medicine. With deep expertise and global reach, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine reimagines how devastating diseases are treated and cured, delivering hope and better care for millions of patients and their families. The organization pioneers the path from laboratory research to clinical application, championing patients every step of the way while maintaining an unwavering commitment to scientific excellence and patient-centered innovation.