Senior Manager, SAP Business AI & Data

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Senior Manager, SAP Business AI & Data. It pays $140k-$242k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Johnson & Johnson.

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Job Function:

R&D Product Development

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family R&D Product Development

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are seeking the best talent for a Senior Manager, SAP Business AI & Data to be located in Titusville or Raritan, NJ.

The Senior Manager, SAP Business AI & Data will provide technology leadership for the design, deployment, and operation of enterprise AI products and integrated data platforms supporting the IM Supply Chain Transcend program.

This role will lead the convergence of SAP Business AI and enterprise data, establishing AI-ready data foundations through SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) and enabling intelligent business capabilities through SAP Joule, Joule Agents, and SAP Business AI. The Senior Manager will ensure these capabilities integrate effectively with the broader IMSC Data and AI ecosystem, including SAVIA and Aspire.ai.

The role is accountable for translating strategic business needs into secure, scalable, and governed AI and data solutions while driving software engineering excellence, responsible AI, platform governance, adoption, and measurable business value.

The Senior Manager will work across business, technology, architecture, data, security, and delivery teams to establish a scalable SAP Business AI and Data platform capability that supports both current Transcend priorities and future intelligent enterprise use cases.

Key Responsibilities

SAP Business AI & Data Leadership

Lead the strategy, architecture, engineering, and operationalization of SAP Business AI and data capabilities across the Transcend landscape.
Lead implementation and evolution of SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) as an AI-ready data foundation supporting analytics, AI, agents, and intelligent business processes.
Drive adoption and engineering of SAP Joule, Joule Agents, and SAP Business AI capabilities aligned to prioritized business use cases.
Establish scalable patterns for integrating SAP Business AI and BDC with broader IMSC AI and data platforms, including Aspire.ai.
Align AI capabilities with trusted, contextualized, and governed enterprise data to support reliable and auditable business outcomes.
Partner with Enterprise Architecture and AI leadership to define build, buy, and blend decisions for AI capabilities.
Evaluate emerging SAP AI and data capabilities and determine where they can deliver meaningful business value.

Technical Product Ownership

Lead end-to-end design, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of enterprise AI products, data platforms, applications, and integrations.
Translate complex business requirements into scalable product, platform, data, and solution architectures.
Define solution structures, interfaces, dependencies, integration patterns, and non-functional requirements across complex SAP and enterprise technology landscapes.
Drive engineering excellence across configuration, software development, APIs, data engineering, automation, AI capabilities, and platform services.
Establish reusable architecture and engineering patterns to accelerate delivery across multiple AI and data use cases.
Promote disciplined SDLC, DevSecOps, automated testing, observability, and change management practices.

AI Product Delivery & Value Realization

Build and manage a portfolio of AI and data capabilities aligned to Transcend and Supply Chain priorities.
Establish a structured lifecycle from use-case discovery and validation through engineering, deployment, adoption, measurement, and continuous enhancement.
Prioritize AI opportunities based on business impact, data readiness, technical feasibility, risk, scalability, and reuse potential.
Partner with business teams to define measurable outcomes and establish mechanisms to track productivity, quality, user experience, and business value.
Drive AI literacy, adoption, and change management to enable sustainable use of AI capabilities across Transcend.

Responsible AI, Governance, Risk & Compliance

Establish and enforce appropriate AI, data, and technology governance across the product and platform portfolio.
Ensure solutions align with enterprise standards for privacy, security, explainability, fairness, data quality, and responsible AI.
Partner with Privacy, Information Security, Legal, Compliance, Quality, and Architecture organizations throughout the AI product lifecycle.
Ensure alignment with applicable regulatory and organizational requirements, including GDPR, CCPA, and the EU AI Act where relevant.
Establish appropriate controls for AI-enabled capabilities, including monitoring, traceability, human oversight, and lifecycle governance.
Identify, manage, and communicate technology, AI, data, delivery, and platform risks.

People & Cross-Functional Leadership

Lead and develop high-performing, multidisciplinary teams spanning AI, data, software engineering, SAP technology, product management, and platform engineering.
Provide technical leadership and mentorship while building organizational capabilities in SAP Business AI and modern data technologies.
Develop strong partnerships across Transcend, Technology Services, Enterprise Architecture, Information Security, Data & AI, and business organizations.
Manage delivery across internal teams, strategic partners, software vendors, and system integrators.
Build a culture of innovation, accountability, inclusion, engineering excellence, experimentation, and continuous learning.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field. Equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
12+ years of progressive experience across technology, software engineering, SAP, data platforms, digital products, or related technology disciplines.
10+ years of technology leadership experience leading complex, cross-functional teams and enterprise technology initiatives.
Experience with SAP Business AI, SAP Joule, Joule Agents, SAP Business Data Cloud, SAP Datasphere, SAP BTP, or comparable enterprise AI and data technologies.
Demonstrated experience delivering enterprise-scale applications, technology platforms, data solutions, or AI-enabled products in complex or regulated environments.
Strong experience with enterprise SAP ecosystems and modern data, integration, and cloud architectures.
Demonstrated ability to translate business strategies and requirements into scalable technology architectures and product roadmaps.
Strong understanding of software engineering, SDLC, DevOps, testing, quality engineering, integration, data management, and production operations.
Experience managing technology portfolios involving multiple teams, products, platforms, dependencies, and strategic partners.
Demonstrated experience influencing senior business and technology stakeholders in a global, matrixed organization.

Preferred Qualifications

Understanding of generative AI, agentic AI, machine learning, knowledge grounding, AI orchestration, and enterprise data architectures.
Experience designing or implementing AI-enabled business processes within SAP landscapes.
Experience integrating SAP data and AI capabilities with broader enterprise cloud, data, AI, or analytics ecosystems.
Knowledge of responsible AI practices, AI governance, data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, and regulatory considerations.
Experience delivering AI and technology solutions within Supply Chain, ERP transformation, or large-scale SAP transformation programs.
Experience defining AI adoption and business-value measurement frameworks.
Demonstrated ability to lead technology innovation while maintaining enterprise architecture, engineering, security, quality, and compliance standards.

Key Leadership & Technical Competencies

Strategic Thinking
AI & Data Product Strategy
SAP Business AI
SAP Business Data Cloud
Product & Platform Management
Product Development Lifecycle
Software Engineering
Enterprise Architecture
Data Architecture & Governance
Responsible AI
Quality Assurance
Operations Management
Performance & Value Measurement
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Developing Others
Inclusive Leadership
Team Management
Entrepreneurship
Technical Credibility
Change Management

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:

SAP BTP Data Intelligence, SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC), SAP Business Intelligence (SAP BI), SAP Datasphere, SAP Joule Agents

Preferred Skills:

Agentic AI, Generative AI, Machine Learning (ML)

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$140,000.00 - $241,500.00

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

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

How we rate this

Senior Manager, SAP Business AI & Data at Johnson & Johnson rates 70 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Senior Manager, SAP Business AI & Data is an open job at Johnson & Johnson.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is $140k-$242k a year.
The role is based in Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America.
The job was posted on November 11, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Johnson & Johnson. Apply on Johnson & Johnson

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