Transcend IM: Senior Manager, Logistics Network

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions 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

Supply Chain Deliver

Job Sub Function

Deliver Excellence

Job Category

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations

Cork, Cork, Ireland, Latina, Italy, Leiden, Netherlands, Lisbon, Portugal

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.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Manager, Logistics Network & Orchestration to lead the capabilities that connect processes, business events, information flows, and external partners across the Innovative Medicine Logistics network.

Transcend is modernizing foundational processes through a standardized SAP S/4HANA platform and integrated data foundation, improving agility, consistency, visibility, and scale.

As part of the Transcend IM Global Template Organization, you will bring the E2E Logistics Template to life through scalable Network & Orchestration capabilities.

You will connect and orchestrate processes and business events across the logistics network while strengthening end-to-end inventory visibility and exception management. Working with global Supply Chain experts and external partners, you will design and scale reusable processes and integration patterns that improve connectivity, simplify how we work and reduce operational risk.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the Global Logistics Network & Orchestration Template, including its standards, controls, roadmap, and lifecycle, to enable fit-to-standard, clean-core adoption and scalable growth.
• Ensure key processes and capabilities are integrated into the global template, designed and documented end to end, and deployed within program scope and timelines.
• Navigate design gaps and cross-domain dependencies, shape capability and release priorities, and bring forward clear recommendations on material trade-offs.
• Drive measurable enterprise value by establishing clear outcomes, monitoring adoption and performance, surfacing risks and decisions early, and mobilizing business and technology partners around corrective action and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

Education

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in supply chain, logistics, operations, engineering, business, technology, or a related field is required.
• Certifications in areas such as Project Management, Supply Chain, Process Excellence, Product Management, or Design Thinking are a plus.

Required

Experience and Skills

• Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience
• Experience across logistics networks, with depth in two or more areas such as inventory or event visibility, business-event orchestration, exception management, third-party logistics connectivity, or integration.
• Experience leading complex, large-scale global transformations across logistics, supply chain, digital, or process environments, connecting enterprise standards and cross-functional decisions to meaningful, measurable outcomes.
• Experience bringing operational and technology-enabled processes to life, from design and development through implementation and continuous improvement, within a global organization.
• Experience translating enterprise strategy and operational needs into global process standards, capability roadmaps, business requirements, acceptance criteria, and governance decisions.
• Sound judgment and a balanced perspective, with the ability to navigate standardization, patient and customer needs, compliance, risk, value, and speed while turning complex trade-offs and exceptions into clear paths forward.
• A collaborative attitude a