Technical Product Manager - Global Trade Compliance

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Technical Product Manager - Global Trade Compliance to be located in Titusville, NJ or Beerse, Belgium location. This position has the potential to be located at another J&J facility within the United States for the right talent.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

United States/Titusville, NJ - Requisition Number: R-026664

Beerse, Belgium - Requisition Number: R-028152

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

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 Innovative Medicine ERP landscape from 7 platforms to 1, standardizing processes to drive a cost effective, fit for purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Innovative Medicines business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

This role will shape and deliver the Innovative Medicine global template for the Global Trade Compliance processes and enable new capabilities for emerging supply chain needs within IM E2E Supply Chain (R&D, Clinical and Commercial)

The position leads design and delivery of Global Trade Compliance capabilities in SAP S/4HANA and SAP GTS E4H and governs the J&J IM template while driving the capabilities' evolution through the deployments within the GTS domain and must connect across functional domains to enable an End-to-End integrated solution.

The Technical Product Manager - Global Trade Compliance will be an active member of the IM Supply Chain JJT team, driving global standardization within Innovative Medicines ERP technology solutions and taking ownership of the corresponding GTS solutions:

This role must work in close collaboration with parallel programs currently on going within J&J.

The Technical Product Manager - Global Trade Compliance will be an active member of the Global Trade Compliance (a.k.a Global Trade Services-GTS) JJT team and will lead JNJ internal team and consultants within this scope while partnering with other J&J Technology functions to drive global standardization within Innovative Medicines ERP technology solutions. The role will fundamentally lead all aspects of platform governance, continuous improvement & efficiencies across its scope, enabling strategic capabilities and innovation, human centered design, and platform integration across our digital ecosystem. The role will partner with the Innovative Medicines Transcend business process owners, Transcend Technical Product Managers and Owners, ecosystem owners and various vendor partners to ensure end to end capabilities are supported and evolved. The role will operate closely with the Innovative Medicine Transcend deployment organization to grow and evolve the capabilities as business and regional deployments are implemented.

Key Responsibilities:

Roadmap & Backlog

• Own vision and prioritization of new technical features and/or enhancements for Trade Compliance and Trade Preferences to meet business needs.
• Establish technology roadmap to achieve efficient & effective delivery of business & customer value for Intercompany requirements.
• Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing features, optimizing cost, and improving delivery efficiency.
• Further refine the backlog by adding necessary technical features and epics; work with Suppliers and Product owners, with regard to supplier delivered capacity & architectural integration is understood.
• Help Product Owners prioritize their backlogs, handle product / platform constraints, and resolve cross-team dependencies; lead demand intake as required.

Solutioning

• Accountable for solution design and implementation for Global Trade Compliance processes for Innovative Medicines Supply Chain on the ERP & GTS platforms and the integration with relevant ecosystems
• Drive business process standardization and strategies to drive best in class design
• Effectively engage with business and functional teams in providing the best fit technical solutions while aligning to Transcend program design and implementation standards
• Drive selection of product / platform solution options, work with the Engineering team to assess tech elements of the solution prior to user testing and to balance tech debt

Delivery

• Accountable to lead the integrated solution build and deployment
• Responsible for planning and execution of Technical Testing and support business workstream lead to plan and implement Business Simulation and User Acceptance Testing
• Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensure SDLC documentation, system configuration and compliance activities are up to date as required.
• Drive continual measurement of capabilities against demand volume, complexity, business challenges and improvement within value stream(s)

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience

Domain Expertise

• Strong Knowledge of Supply Chain business processes and the end-to-end business processes linkages to Plan, Source, Make, Quality, Deliver, Logistics, Finance and Data processes.
• Solid Understanding of SAP ERP technical capabilities
• Strong Knowledge of SAP GTS technical capabilities
• Exposure to Global Trade Compliance Processes

Preferred:

Domain Expertise

• Experience in Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare industry and good Knowledge of SOX & GxP compliance regulations.
• Exposure to Advanced Therapies and Clinical distribution processes
• Experience with Agile methodology and Software Development Lifecycle Management model and documentation.

Leadership Skills & Behaviors

• Learning agility, flexible, thriving on change and able to adapt to it
• Focuses on Business agility, Agile delivery with a fail-fast mentality, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in leading multi-functional self-organized teams.
• Experience working in a regional / global environment and leading teams and managing stakeholders across multiple countries.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally.
• Chips in ideas that challenge thinking.
• Strong problem-solving skills with ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgement.
• Strong communication and influencing skills.
• Strong sense of urgency and ability to handle changing priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• A constant learner, looking for new ways to implement features and functions that build higher levels of customer satisfaction

Other:

• English Fluency is required
• 25% Travel may be required depending on the program needs (national and international)