Technical Product Owner ERP Plan

**Job Function**:
Technology Product & Platform Management
**Job Sub Function**:
Technical Product Management
**Job Category**:
People Leader
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America, Zug, Switzerland

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a **Technical Product Owner ERP Plan & Source,**located in EMEA (preferred location Beerse BE or Switzerland CH). This position has the potential to be located at another J&J facility within EMEA or in the US for the right talent.

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

As part of the Pharm Transcend Program, **Technical Product Owner ERP Plan & Source,** will be an active member of the Pharm Supply Chain JJT team, driving global standardization within Pharma of ERP technology solutions in the scope of **Direct/Indirect Procurement, Supplier Management, MRP/Inventory Planning, Purchasing Master data Subcontracting, Intra & Intercompany stock transfer and OMP (Planning System) integration.**

The position leads design, validation and delivery of SAP S/4 capabilities and data, aligned with business process needs. The position governs the scope of the SAP S/4 template and drives template innovation and evolution through the deployments.

The **Technical Product Owner ERP Plan & Source,**role will take ownership of one or more of following scope areas:

- Direct/Indirect Procurement

- Supplier Management

- MRP/Inventory Planning

- OMP (Planning System) integration

- Purchasing Master data

- Subcontracting, Intra & Intercompany stock transfer]

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Requirements Definition**

- Engage with Business Partners to **define user stories**

- **Balance business value with technical feasibility** while prioritizing stories and features, optimizing cost, and improving delivery efficiency

- Act as the “voice of the customer” within the squad to **ensure the squad “builds the right thing”**

- **Ensures the backlog is healthy**: Stays 2-3 sprints ahead and ensures each feature has a clear definition of done; ensures each feature level deliverable is aligned to a definition of readiness to enter sprint

**Solution Design**:

- Lead in the overall **translation of business requirements into technical solutions**

- Lead **how requirements may be implemented from a functional standpoint** and drive/improve user experience

- Ensuring system configuration to comply solution design.

- Ensure Design documentation including Functional documentation are delivered for all build objects.

- Drive **selection of solution options**, work with the Lead Engineer to assess tech elements of the solution prior to user testing

- **Lead the integration design**based on business needs and J&J best practices and recommend appropriate connection types, while evaluating impacts

**Product Delivery**:

- **Facilitate release planning, sprint planning** and demos with business partners.

- Accountable to **manage the integrated build** with the Engineering team to ensure the end-to-end build of a particular part of a solution is compliant and works as designed.

- Oversee planning and execution of **Technical Testing** by Engineering team; Support Business Process Owner to plan and execute **User Acceptance Testing**

- Drive reporting and analytics to provide visibility on **squad performance** and monitor sprint metrics and user results

**Operational Leadership**:

- Shape the squad vision & roadmap; Help steer the squad in delivering products & features oriented around business impact

- **Interact with other Squads within the Project/Platform** as part of synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-squad tasks.

- Drive engagement with third parties to support delivery of squad objectives

- Plan resourcing for the squad (i.e. new role, change in role), create ASOE requests, interview, select and onboard members to join the squad

- Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Supply Chain, Finance or similar
- A minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience; a minimum of 5 years relevant SAP experience
- Strong Knowledge of Supply Chain PLAN-SOURCE business processes: Procure to Pay, Plan to Manufacture, Logistics Execution.

- Strong Knowledge of SAP-ERP PLAN-SOURCE technical capabilities including Configuration (hands on): Materials Management, Procurement, Material Requirement Planning, Production