Introduction
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.
IM Transcend is a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will modernize our end-to-end Supply Chain digital capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ecosystem of 7+ major global ERP systems, standardizing our core business processes and products [across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Quality, and Data], and enabling our integrated data strategy through a single SAP S/4 HANA instance.
The Release Manager Reporting & Analytics is a functional role within a large-scale, multi-year global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, with responsibility to manage Reports, KPIs, and Analytics across multiple global releases.
Responsible for managing and delivering accurate, timely, and actionable data reporting for S/4 operations, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving operational excellence. Accountable for developing and maintaining custom analytics within S/4 ensuring the business is prepared and equipped to adopt and leverage these capabilities effectively.
Key Responsibilities
Release/deployment strategy and planning: Own the deployment calendar for reports, KPIs, and analytics across for multiple releases, define scope, timelines with key stakeholders.
Qualifications
Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Data Management, Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline.
3+ years of experience in SAP deployment or enterprise deployment roles.
Experience leading data reporting and business intelligence.
Understanding of SAP data structures.
Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred.
Understanding of GxP, SOX, audit, CSV, data integrity (ALCOA+), GDPR, and quality requirements.
Experience & Skills
Release management fundamentals: Building and maintaining release calendars, playbooks, and rollback plans, coordinating cross-team dependencies, change management, coordinate post-release reviews, incident management and root-cause analysis tied to releases.
Experience supporting testing cycles SIT/BST/UAT.
Strong knowledge of analytical reporting, datasets, KPIs, and BI platform deployment.
Proven ability to communicate in a complex matrix environment.
Skills in risk management, issue resolution.
