Transcend: Director, Business Readiness and Change

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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, Little Island, Cork, Ireland, Madrid, Spain

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-090143

Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, and Spain - Requisition Number: R-092677

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Business Readiness and Change! 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 with business partners and site nodes across the network early and throughout the program lifecycle to define desired outcomes, shape business readiness strategies, identify change drivers and dependencies.

• Serve as trusted advisor and role model—influencing senior leaders, building credibility, and fostering a culture of transformation, continuous improvement and agility.

• Lead key assessment activities (process walkthroughs, partner interviews, workshops) to identify high-impact change requirements and prioritize interventions.

• Partner to build business resource plans to optimally support vital engagement across program lifecycle.

• Design and own strategic change plans that align with program roadmaps, including risk mitigation, prioritization, and integrated readiness schedules for releases.

• Partner with the business and sites to ensure effective Business Continuity Plans and cutover plans are prepared; performing gap analysis, facilitating table top exercises as well as ensuring inventory build up and shutdown/start up approaches are accounted for.

• Lead a high-performing team in translating assessments into practical change artifacts—persona definitions, journey maps, impact assessments, adoption KPIs, and success metrics.

• Shape and partner to deliver change plans and activities to ensure synchronized timing of communications, training, staffing, and operational readiness. consistency across streams and releases.

• Lead change network activities in support of assigned releases and / or functions to ensure early business awareness, readiness and adoption.

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 and/or business readiness 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.

• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain interactions and interdependencies with other functions (with particular experience in MAKE / Manufacturing site operations)

• Outstanding negotiation, interpersonal skills, & ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences at varying levels; with a consistent record to influence and engage partners at all levels.

• 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

• 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% of domestic and international travel

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Alliance Formation, Business Alignment, Change Management, Communications Measurement, Developing Others, 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:

 

[France] – The anticipated base pay range for this position is 91,800 - 159,045
[Ireland] – The anticipated base pay range for this position is 104,000 - 179,515
[Italy] – The anticipated base pay range for this position is 95,900 - 165,370
[Spain] – The anticipated 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.