Senior Manager, MAKE Business Ecosystems & Deployment Strategy

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

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Technology Project Management

Job Category:

Professional

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Job Description:

We are seeking the best talent for a Senior Manager, MAKE Business Ecosystems & Deployment Strategy to be located in New Brunswick NJ. Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.

This is a durational role expected to end in December 2029.

This role will lead the Business Ecosystems PMO supporting the MAKE Transcend roadmap and manufacturing deployment portfolio. This role is responsible for ensuring business and technology readiness across complex manufacturing transformations, enabling successful deployment, adoption, and value realization.

This leader will serve as the primary bridge between business stakeholders, deployment teams, Technology Services (TS), Build teams, Integration teams, and external implementation partners. The role requires deep technical understanding of enterprise systems, integrations, and deployment methodologies to effectively translate business requirements into executable plans and manage cross-functional dependencies.

The Senior Manager will oversee ecosystem planning, readiness, risk management, change impacts, and deployment execution activities across global MAKE business ecosystem deployments while ensuring alignment between business priorities and technology delivery.

Operating within a highly matrixed environment, the individual must be comfortable navigating ambiguity, influencing senior leaders, driving decisions, and leading large-scale transformation initiatives across multiple functions and regions.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead the Transcend Business Ecosystem function for the MAKE deployment roadmap, ensuring successful planning, readiness, deployment, and stabilization activities.

• Serve as the central point of coordination between Business Ecosystems, Technology Services (TS), Build teams, Integration teams, Deployment teams, and Manufacturing stakeholders.

• Drive alignment across business and technology organizations to ensure deployment readiness and successful execution of manufacturing transformation initiatives.

• Develop and maintain integrated ecosystem MAKE deployment plans, ensuring critical milestones, dependencies, and risks are proactively managed.

• Develop, maintain, and govern integrated deployment plans, detailed Gantt schedules, milestone tracking, dependency management, and critical path activities across business and technology workstreams.

• Lead ecosystem planning activities supporting design, build, testing, cutover, deployment, hypercare, and stabilization phases, ensuring readiness across all impacted functions.

• Partner with Deployment Leads, TS, Build, and Integration teams to coordinate FIT, BST, cut-over business validation testing, dress rehearsals, and go-live readiness activities.

• Establish governance processes to manage deployment timelines, testing progress, RAIDs, interdependencies, resource plans, and deployment readiness metrics.

• Partner with Build, Integration, Architecture, Data, and Technology Services teams to understand technical dependencies, deployment sequencing, interface impacts, and business readiness requirements.

• Facilitate executive-level governance, readiness reviews, deployment workshops, and cross-functional decision-making forums.

• Lead ecosystem RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, and Dependencies) management processes and drive mitigation plans across impacted functions.

• Collaborate with manufacturing business partners to assess operational impacts, readiness gaps, and organizational change requirements.

• Establish and monitor ecosystem readiness metrics, deployment KPIs, and executive reporting mechanisms.

• Support technology and business teams in identifying process optimization opportunities and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Provide strategic guidance and recommendations to program leadership regarding deployment risks, resource needs, organizational impacts, and readiness decisions.

• Foster strong relationships across Business, TS, ERP Product Teams, Integrations, Supply Chain Technology, Manufacturing Operations, Quality, Finance, Procurement, and external implementation partners.

• Ensure all work is executed in accordance with Johnson & Johnson Credo values, compliance requirements, and organizational standards.

Qualifications / Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree required; Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, or related field preferred.

• Advanced Degree (MBA, MS, Engineering, or related field) preferred.

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in program management, deployment leadership, business transformation, supply chain technology, or enterprise systems implementation.

• Minimum of 5 years of experience leading large-scale ERP or digital transformation deployments within manufacturing environments.

• Strong technical background is required, including experience working directly with enterprise application build teams, integration teams, architecture teams, and technology delivery organizations.

• Demonstrated understanding of SAP S/4HANA, manufacturing systems, system integrations, data migration, and enterprise deployment methodologies.

• Ability to effectively engage with both business leaders and technical teams, translating complex technical concepts into actionable business decisions.

• Proven experience managing large-scale cross-functional programs across highly matrixed global organizations.

• Strong understanding of deployment lifecycle management, testing, cutover planning, hypercare, and change management practices.

• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority and drive alignment among senior leaders and stakeholders.

• Excellent communication, executive presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities with experience using data to support decision-making.

• Experience within Medical Technology, Healthcare, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, or regulated industries preferred.

• Ability to travel globally up to 25%.

Leadership Profile

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable discussing deployment strategy with senior executives, resolving operational readiness challenges with business leaders, and partnering with Build, Integration, and Technology Services teams on technical delivery dependencies. This leader will be responsible for ensuring that business ecosystem teams are fully aligned to the Transcend MAKE roadmap and that business and technology organizations operate as a single integrated team to successfully deliver global manufacturing transformations.

Johnson & Johnson is an 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, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Agility Jumps, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Data Visualization, Information Technology Project Management, Interpersonal Influence, Market Savvy, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Process Control, Process Improvements, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Quality Control (QC), Technical Credibility

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$122,000.00 - $212,750.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

About Us

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 https://www.jnj.com/.

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