Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) Manager, Solutions Enablement

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

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Ethicon, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Group of Companies, is currently recruiting a Manager, Supply Chain Collaboration (SCC) Solutions Enablement in the Transcend Business Transformation & Supply Chain Solutions (BTSS) organization on the Forecast-to-Stock Solutions Enablement Team.

Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company for US based candidates. 

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our focus in healthcare innovation enables 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 https://www.jnj.com/ (https://www.jnj.com/).

Position Summary

The SCC Manager, Solutions Enablement is accountable for managing the global template for the Supply Chain Collaboration capability and driving ongoing supplier enablement/onboarding of suppliers for the different deployments on the roadmap. The role will work with the Supply Chain Collaboration capability enabled by the SAP Business Networks SCC platform collaborating with the Source Business Process Owner (BPO), Buyer/Planners in the business, Supplier Relationship Managers (SRMs), Source Workstream Lead for the respective deployments, SCC JJT Product Owner and coordinate and drive the identification of target suppliers to be enabled, map global template capabilities to target suppliers, identify new global and local requirements to grow the global template and lead the deployment of those capabilities. Lead and influence resources to ensure the execution of these activities during deployments and post deployments as part of sustain/base business. The role requires the Manager with innovative outlook to understand industry trends, SAP roadmap in the Supply Chain Collaboration space and working on enhancing the global template by enabling AI capabilities to help the J&J buyer/planners and suppliers in digitizing and automating collaboration transactions and in helping them with improved decision making that will help improve efficiency, optimize inventory, reduce or eliminate back orders by increasing visibility, reducing variability and increasing velocity.

This role will work with Business Unit leadership to present capability overviews, educate J&J MT buyers/planners, educate supplier users and also be able to address any questions from the end user community as part of ongoing base business support.

CEO Mindset Expectations

• Treat each capability as a business investment.
• Focus on outcomes rather than activity.
• Drive decisions using data and business value.
• Constantly seek opportunities to scale solutions globally.

Key Responsibilities

Process Ownership

• Own and Lead Deployments in the Supply Chain Collaboration area encompassing:
• Discrete PO collaboration, Vendor Managed Inventory, Consignment, Subcontracting, Multi-tier collaboration, AI capabilities, Business-to-Business Integration for large strategic suppliers.
• Integration of SCC with S4 HANA.
• Expanding the collaboration capabilities to adopt next generation SCC platform capabilities based on BTP and driven by AI use case.

Requirements & Design

• Lead Solution Confirmation Workshops and Processes
• Leverage AI tools as part of our AI First principles to automate and deliver work efficiently
• Translate business requirements and perform fit/gap assessment to global template capabilities
• Identify gaps and local requirements and work with Solution Architecture team to address solutions and capabilities
• Partner with Solution architects, JJT TTDLs, Consulting/Integration architects and Deployment Workstream Leads and SMEs during solution confirmation
• Evaluate requests using standard versus customization principles
• Ensure Requirements, KDDs/RICEFs are gathered according to program methodology and approved through governance, compliance and audit forums

Manage Supplier Enablement

• Responsible for the planning and execution of all supplier enablement/onboarding activities during each MT Transcend deployment and post deployment including base business. Specific responsibilities to include
• planning/scoping/identifying suppliers to be onboarded
• defining timelines for onboarding based on waves of enablement
• defining collaboration, integration and rollout plans
• conducting kick-offs, process and system walkthroughs, mapping processes and identifying change impacts
• Work with the SAP SCC supplier enablement team to complete all supplier enablement activities
• coordinating any testing activities with the internal J&J and supplier users as required
• ensuring access is provisioned for supplier users
• lead process and system training for J&J buyer/planner users and supplier users on the SAP Ariba SCC platform
• Coordinating cutover activities to start collaborating with the suppliers based on established launch dates
• Providing ongoing business ramp-up/hypercare support to buyer/planner and supplier users, including activities such as monitoring batch jobs and resolving any exceptions, conducting lessons learned sessions, ongoing optimization of supplier collaboration processes and relationships, etc.
• Deliver training on SCC to buyer/planners and provide them with ongoing knowledge transfer/support.
• Provide similar SCC training to supplier users and ongoing knowledge transfer to those supplier users when contacted by those suppliers.
• Supplier enabled in SCC can include portal suppliers, which takes 4-6 weeks to onboard and B2B suppliers, which can take 12-24 months to onboard.
• Collaborate and coordinate with Procure to Pay, Source Manager, BU buyers/planners, Supplier Relationships Managers (SRMs), deployment project teams and SAP Ariba Supplier Enablement Lead to complete the above responsibilities
• Leverage established supplier enablement methodology, including relevant templates, tools, approaches, controls, and cadence to drive project deployment based and ongoing/sustain based supplier enablement activities

Skills & Qualifications

Education: A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent University degree is required; a focused degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or a related field is preferred. Master’s degree is preferred

Required:

• Minimum six (6) years of relevant professional work experience.
• Supply Chain business experience or exposure to large transformation programs.
• Project management or coordination experience
• Strong focus on internal and external customers, including development and management of business partners
• Familiarity with GxP and Sox requirements and regulations
• Showing innovative skills, especially involving AI capabilities to challenges in a fast-paced, changing global environment
• Building consensus and ability to consider trade off decisions across the organization
• Experience delivering to project timelines and results in complex business environments
• Strong communication and organizational change skills
• Strong relationship development, conflict resolution, and team building instincts, with the ability to build partnerships and collaborate both internally and externally.
• Experience working in a complex, global environment

Preferred:

• Experience deploying Supplier Collaboration platforms such as SAP Business Network SCC, E2Open, One Network, etc.
• Strong business and digital savvy, including any Supply Chain or ERP expertise with S4 HANA, BTP, etc.
• Certification in areas of expertise (e.g., APICS/ASCM, PMI, Lean/Six Sigma /Process Excellence, etc.)

Other:

• May require up to 25% domestic and/or international travel to other sites and locations.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Expectation Management, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Process Improvements, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Quality Assurance (QA), Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$105,000.00 - $181,700.00

 

 

For Bay Area:

$121,000.00 - $209,300.00

 

 

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).

This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.

Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year

Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year

Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child

Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year

Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

 

 

For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits