Senior Manager, Plan Value Stream Lead

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Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Ethicon, a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies is currently hiring a Senior Manager, Plan Value Stream Lead to join its dynamic team.

Remote work options may be considered on a case‑by‑case basis and if approved by the Company for US based candidates.

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 Med Tech, 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.

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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. This program will simplify the Med Tech ERP landscape, standardizing processes to have a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Med Tech business with agility.

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Plan Value Stream Lead 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. 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 solution within Plan, guiding process alignment, testing, and change enablement to ensure readiness, consistency, and successful deployment.

The position will directly lead a team comprise of process leads and Plan SMES representing the various business units in scope for North America.

• Lead Plan participation in solution confirmation workshops, ensuring alignment to order management and customer service requirements
• Serve as a senior 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 coordinated 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

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent University degree is required;
An advanced degree, Master’s is preferred.

• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in Supply Chain or Order to Cash Processes
• 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
• Familiarity with CSV, SDLC, GXP.
• Profici…