Transcend IM: Senior Manager, Logistics Network & Orchestration
Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Transcend IM: Senior Manager, Logistics Network & Orchestration. Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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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:
Supply Chain DeliverJob Sub Function:
Deliver ExcellenceJob Category:
People LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:
Cork, Cork, Ireland, Latina, Italy, Leiden, Netherlands, Lisbon, PortugalJob 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.
Position Summary
We are seeking a Senior Manager, Logistics Network & Orchestration to lead the capabilities that connect processes, business events, information flows, and external partners across the Innovative Medicine Logistics network.
Transcend is modernizing foundational processes through a standardized SAP S/4HANA platform and integrated data foundation, improving agility, consistency, visibility, and scale.
As part of the Transcend IM Global Template Organization, you will bring the E2E Logistics Template to life through scalable Network & Orchestration capabilities.
You will connect and orchestrate processes and business events across the logistics network while strengthening end-to-end inventory visibility and exception management. Working with global Supply Chain experts and external partners, you will design and scale reusable processes and integration patterns that improve connectivity, simplify how we work and reduce operational risk.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the Global Logistics Network & Orchestration Template, including its standards, controls, roadmap, and lifecycle, to enable fit-to-standard, clean-core adoption and scalable growth.
- Ensure key processes and capabilities are integrated into the global template, designed and documented end to end, and deployed within program scope and timelines.
- Navigate design gaps and cross-domain dependencies, shape capability and release priorities, and bring forward clear recommendations on material trade-offs.
- Drive measurable enterprise value by establishing clear outcomes, monitoring adoption and performance, surfacing risks and decisions early, and mobilizing business and technology partners around corrective action and continuous improvement.
Qualifications
Education
- A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in supply chain, logistics, operations, engineering, business, technology, or a related field is required.
- Certifications in areas such as Project Management, Supply Chain, Process Excellence, Product Management, or Design Thinking are a plus.
Experience and Skills
Required
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience
- Experience across logistics networks, with depth in two or more areas such as inventory or event visibility, business-event orchestration, exception management, third-party logistics connectivity, or integration.
- Experience leading complex, large-scale global transformations across logistics, supply chain, digital, or process environments, connecting enterprise standards and cross-functional decisions to meaningful, measurable outcomes.
- Experience bringing operational and technology-enabled processes to life, from design and development through implementation and continuous improvement, within a global organization.
- Experience translating enterprise strategy and operational needs into global process standards, capability roadmaps, business requirements, acceptance criteria, and governance decisions.
- Sound judgment and a balanced perspective, with the ability to navigate standardization, patient and customer needs, compliance, risk, value, and speed while turning complex trade-offs and exceptions into clear paths forward.
- A collaborative attitude and passion for building trusted partnerships, connecting people across teams, functions, geographies, and levels to create shared ownership and achieve stronger outcomes together.
- Curiosity and a passion for continuous learning and innovation, exploring emerging practices and technologies and translate new ideas into impactful logistics capabilities and business value.
Preferred
- Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology or another regulated or complex global environment.
- Exposure to global templates, business architecture, process intelligence, data strategy, product or capability management, with an interest in connecting these disciplines to create stronger end-to-end solutions.
- Experience connecting business and technology through partner or system integration, traceability, event management, visibility, orchestration, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled capabilities.
- Exposure to temperature-controlled logistics, global traceability, partner ecosystems, or other time-critical supply-network models where visibility, orchestration and responsiveness matter.
- Experience working across complex ERP landscapes, connecting business needs and processes across systems and organizational boundaries.
- Strong communicator and influencer who brings clarity to complex topics, shapes compelling recommendations, and inspires action across organizational boundaries.
- Self‐starter mentality with ability to think strategically, innovatively, and creatively to drive positive outcomes.
Other
- Requires proficiency in English, written and verbal, to communicate effectively and professionally; proficiency in another relevant local language is helpful.
- May require up to 20% domestic and international travel based on work location and business needs.
- Requires the ability, through our flexible work policy, to work on-site a minimum of three days each week, with the option for two remote workdays each week.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Business Alignment, Collaboration, Continuous Improvement, Demand Forecasting, Developing Others, Distribution Management, Distribution Resource Planning (DRP), Financial Competence, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Lean Supply Chain Management, Operational Excellence, Order Management, Organizing, Procurement Policies, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Strategic Supply Chain Management
The anticipated base pay range for this position is:
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.
How we rate this
Transcend IM: Senior Manager, Logistics Network & Orchestration at Johnson & Johnson rates 35 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
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