Deploy Experienced Analyst - Production Logistics

Description

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. 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 .

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

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About Innovative Medicine

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. The role contributes to developing and delivering the medicines of tomorrow while championing patients every step of the way.

About Transcend

Transcend is a global business transformation program modernizing foundational transactional processes and harmonizing them into one clean ERP. The program standardizes processes and establishes a fit-for-purpose digital backbone that enables operational agility, scalability, risk reduction, and long-term sustainability.

Role Purpose

The Deploy Experienced Analyst - Production Logistics provides advanced functional execution and subject-matter expertise to support deployment of production logistics capabilities within the Transcend SAP S/4HANA program. The role independently drives complex activities across solution confirmation, business process validation, testing, data readiness, cutover, deployment, and hypercare. The role preserves critical Production Logistics and MAKE integration knowledge across manufacturing sites and helps ensure alignment to the global template, regulated operations, and SAP Clean Core principles.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Production Logistics Functional Expertise

• Provide hands-on expertise across production staging, material replenishment, material issue and return, kitting, inventory movements, and warehouse-to-production integration.

• Support end-to-end process alignment across Production Logistics, MAKE, SAP S/4HANA, EWM, MES, labeling, and related site systems.

• Translate site requirements and operational scenarios into clear business requirements, process decisions, test conditions, and deployment actions.

• Support production logistics master and transactional data readiness, validation, reconciliation, and governance.

• Identify functional gaps, risks, dependencies, and process variances across Raritan, Malvern, Spring House, and other in-scope manufacturing locations.

Testing, Cutover & Deployment

• Prepare and execute Functional Testing, SIT, Business Simulation Testing, UAT, regression, and end-to-end scenarios for production logistics and MAKE integration.

• Develop and maintain test scenarios, scripts, expected results, evidence, and process-validation documentation.

• Lead defect triage, business impact assessment, root-cause collaboration, retesting, and closure for production logistics issues.

• Support mock migrations, cutover planning, inventory reconciliation, deployment readiness, go-live execution, and hypercare stabilization.

• Capture lessons learned and contribute to continuous improvement of the global template and deployment approach.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Collaborate with Deployment Leads, Business Process Owners, Product Owners, site SMEs, Manufacturing, Warehouse Operations, Quality, Data, JJT, and System Integrator teams.

• Facilitate process decisions and drive timely closure of site-specific questions while protecting global-template standardization.

• Share functional knowledge, support business-user readiness, and develop clear operational documentation for sustainable adoption.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Supply Chain, Logistics, Engineering, Operations Management, Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related discipline.

• Minimum four (4) years of relevant professional experience in production logistics, manufacturing logistics, warehousing, supply chain operations, ERP deployment, or a related field.

• Hands-on knowledge of production staging, replenishment, material issue/return, inventory movements, kitting, Labelling, RF Device Management and manufacturing integration.

• Experience with SAP S/4HANA and/or SAP EWM processes supporting manufacturing and production logistics.

• Experience executing testing, defect management, data readiness, cutover, deployment, or hypercare activities.

• Ability to work independently, manage complex priorities, and collaborate across global and site-based teams.

• Experience in a regulated or quality-controlled environment, with strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Preferred

• Experience supporting large-scale SAP S/4HANA or ERP transformation programs.

• Experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, advanced therapy, life sciences, or regulated manufacturing.

• Knowledge of warehouse/MES interfaces, labeling, cold-chain or controlled inventory, and master-data governance.

• Experience across multi-site deployments, business process harmonization, mock cutovers, or inventory reconciliation.
• Knowledge in IM-WM management.

• APICS, Lean, Six Sigma, FPX, PMP, or comparable certification.

Other

• May require up to 20% domestic and/or international travel to manufacturing sites and program locations.

• Fluent English communication skills are required.

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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.