Transcend: Director, Change 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.

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Job Function:

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function:

Change Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Latina, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal, Little Island, Cork, Ireland, Madrid, Spain, Prague, Czechia

Job 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.

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

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 and Puerto Rico - Requisition Number: R-082357

Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain - Requisition Number: R-087176

Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-087161

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

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Change Strategy! This hybrid position will be located in Titusville, NJ; alternative locations may be considered in Gurabo, PR; Guaynabo, PR; Beerse, BE; Zug, CH; Schaffhausen, CH; Cork, IR; Latina, IT; Madrid, ES; Lisbon, PT, Prague, CZ; and France.

Are you ready to advance your career in Digital Transformation? Join our world-class global team!

As a member of the Change, Business Engagement and Adoption Leadership Team, you will design and implement transformative change strategies, influence business leaders and organizations, and embed a culture of agility and continuous improvement across a sophisticated global enterprise. As a trusted advisor, you’ll craft impactful strategies, resource plans, and partner engagement models; lead efforts to standardize global processes and establish balanced change practices—translating sophisticated organizational change into scalable, measurable initiatives aligned to business goals and long-term value realization.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage business partners early in program strategy to define desired outcomes, shape value realization, and identify change drivers and dependencies.
• Lead discovery and assessment activities (process walkthroughs, partner interviews, workshops) to identify high-impact change requirements and prioritize interventions.
• Design and own strategic change plans that align with program roadmaps, including risk mitigation, prioritization, and integrated readiness schedules for releases.
• Facilitate prioritization of change activities in tandem with release schedules, ensuring proactive readiness assessment.
• Lead a high-performing team in translating assessments into practical change artifacts—persona definitions, journey maps, impact assessments, adoption KPIs, and success metrics—ensuring
• Facilitate prioritization of change activities with program and release leads to ensure synchronized timing of communications, training, staffing, and operational readiness. consistency across streams and releases.
• Collaborate with the business teams and CEBA partners to address critical talent and organizational staffing and change needs, ensuring workforce readiness for transformation.
• Serve as trusted advisor and role model—influencing senior leaders, building credibility, and fostering a culture of agility and continuous improvement
• Lead, develop, and mentor a distributed team of internal and external change practitioners; ensure delivery quality and capability growth.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Minimum of High School or equivalent diploma/degree is required
• Bachelor’s / University or higher degree is strongly preferred, with a focus in Supply Chain, Business, Technology, Engineering, or Organizational Psychology

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• At least (10) years of relevant leadership experience driving large scale transformations, change strategy and realization efforts at global scale
• Consistent track record as change leader on global transformational projects; with validated hands on experience with methodologies and techniques
• Forward looking with a broad view and capable of aligning organizational change strategies across the end-to-end business continuum – Supply Chain, Commercial, R&D, Finance, etc.
• Outstanding communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with consistent record to influence and engage partners at all levels
• Outstanding active listening skills & ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences at varying levels
• Must be a standout colleague and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, savvy at identifying risks and devising effective mitigation strategies across sophisticated problems
• Ability to build deep networks and crafts future opportunities for enhanced business results

Preferred

• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain interactions and interdependencies with other functions, including end-customer touchpoints
• Experience working in a sophisticated, multi-ERP / system environment and proven experience with large-scale SAP ERP replacement project(s)
• Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, or other regulated industry experience

Other

• This position requires up to 30% domestic and international travel

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Alignment, Change Management, Communications Measurement, Impact Reporting, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Operations Management, Organizational Change Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Strategic Change, Strategic Thinking, Training People

  

 

The anticipated pay range for this position, in the primary posting location, is:

€119,200.00 - €204,355.00

 

 

The anticipated pay ranges for additional locations are:

 

[Ireland] – The anticipated annual base pay range for this position is $104,000 - $179,515
[Italy] – The anticipated annual base pay range for this position is $ 95,900 - $165,370
[Spain] – The anticipated annual base pay range for this position is $ 98,400 - $169,855

 

 

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.