Manager, Business Product Owner

**Job Function**: Supply Chain Planning **Job Sub Function**: Planning Strategy & Capabilities **Job Category**: Professional **All Job Posting Locations**: Allschwil, Basel-Country, Switzerland, Zug, Switzerland **About Innovative Medicine** **_ United States and Puerto Rico - Requisition Number: R-019903_** **_ Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-020919_** **_ Belgium and Italy - Requisition Number: R-020923_** We are searching for the best talent for Manager, Business Product Owner This position will be located (onsite/hybrid) in Titusville, New Jersey. Alternate onsite/hybrid locations may be considered at other Innovative Medicine Supply Chain hub sites such as Geel, Belgium; Beerse, Belgium; Allschwil, Switzerland; Zug, Switzerland; Horsham, Pennsylvania; Raritan, New Jersey; Latina, Italy; or Gurabo, Puerto Rico. The Manager, Business Product Owner will shape the vision and roadmap of our digital products, prioritizing the development of new features and enhancements. This role involves designing and implementing digital solutions across all regions and modalities for the respective Innovative Medicine Supply Chain functional business. The Manager will lead projects to ensure consistent end-to-end solutions, provide crucial support to end users, and capture value throughout the digital product lifecycle, serving as the "voice of the customer" within the team. Additionally, this position ensures that business ownership of the digital product aligns with the Johnson and Johnson Technology Team and related Data partners. **Key Responsibilities**: - Work to define a backlog of requirements for the Product/Squad and to prepare these for Intake & Prioritization Approval ensuring they are aligned to the strategic roadmap - Define data requirements for any process changes or new processes being developed. Align these changes/new requirements with Data Design Leads - Assess and deliver value realization post release, and appropriately prioritize customer engagement in design changes to activity-based user adoption monitoring - Conduct business impact assessments for any requested changes, including risk assessments and identification of required regression testing in partnership with the relevant technical project owner - Conduct or provide oversight into all business testing with the Key Users within the area of product responsibility. - Ensure that relevant training documentation is created and updated in partnership with the GPEX Process Owners and Learning & Development team - Develop/Update capability roadmap & business value proposition using 3E value methodology and identify required resources. Serve as the value representative in all long range and strategic forecast discussions and budget sessions **QUALIFICATIONS**: **EDUCATION**: - Minimum of a Bachelor’s /University or equivalent degree required; advanced degree preferred - Certifications preferred: Six Sigma Certification (Green Belt or higher), Supply Chain Certification (APICS / IBF), and/or Project Management Certification (PMP / FPX) **EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS**: **Required**: - Minimum 6 years of relevant work experience - Demonstrated experience with ERP (preferably SAP) and/or Advanced Planning Systems (e.g., OMP, APO, and/or Anaplan) - Experience with a common data layer (i.e. Data Lake, CDM, or semantic layer) - Ability to develop, mentor, and build strong collaborative teams and relationships, leading multi-functional teams without direct authority - Excellent written and verbal communication to clearly articulate data requirements, policies, and issues to both technical and non-technical partners. - Ability to be an inspiring leader, focusing on Business agility, with a fail-fast mentality - Anticipates and communicates the need for change and innovation in an empathetic & influential manner to ensure that the business responds to demands in an agile, positive, proactive way **Preferred**: - Experience working in one or more of the following Supply Chain areas: Planning, Quality, Deliver, Source/Procurement, Make/Manufacturing, and/or Technology - Experience with advanced analytics solutions (e.g., Alteryx, Databricks, Power Automate, or equivalent) - Experience with Intelligent Automation, Process Mining, and/or Scenario Planning solutions - Knowledge of a broad set of internal and external business drivers and financial indicators across enterprise in order to prioritize digital products that drive business goals & capabilities **OTHER**: - Requires proficiency in English (written and verbal) to communicate effectively and professionally - Requires up to 10% domestic and international travel - Requires the ability, through our flexible work policy, to work on-site a minimum of three days each week, with the option for two remote workdays each week