Job Description:

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 Director, Global Data & Analytics Deploy Lead plays a pivotal leadership role within a large-scale, multi-year global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, with responsibility for orchestrating all deployment activities related to Data, Master Data Governance (MDG), Data Migration, Data Quality, Reporting, and Analytics across multiple global releases.

As the senior-most leader overseeing data deployment execution, this role ensures that all data objects—including Material, Customer, Vendor, Business Partner, Finance, Supply Chain, Quality, and Manufacturing data—are fully prepared, validated, migrated, and governed in alignment with the global template, regulatory compliance requirements, and business readiness expectations.

This position leads a global organization comprising three Senior Manager, Release Deploy Leads, each accountable for data deployment execution for their assigned release or region. Together, they ensure end-to-end deployment coverage across planning, build, testing, cutover, go-live, and hypercare phases.

In a global pharmaceutical environment, data deployment is mission-critical for ensuring GxP compliance, data integrity, batch traceability, regulatory reporting, financial controls, audit readiness, and uninterrupted supply to patients. The Director ensures that data readiness strategies meet stringent compliance standards and support efficient, risk-managed deployment execution worldwide.

Success in this role requires deep expertise in data migration, MDG, analytics readiness, deployment planning, and global program delivery—combined with exceptional leadership, communication, and cross-functional influence skills in a complex, matrixed, multi-regional environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the global data & analytics deployment strategy across all waves/releases of the S/4HANA program.

• Build and maintain a standardized deployment framework covering data conversion, validation, MDG readiness, data quality, reporting enablement, and analytics activation.

• Lead a high-performing global deployment team, managing three Senior Manager, Release Deploy Leads.

• Serve as the primary data deployment authority for program leadership, markets, and workstreams.

• Chair global Data Deployment Governance Forums and readiness checkpoints.

• Partner with Global Process Owners, Data Stewards, MDG Leads, Data Migration teams, Quality & Compliance, and Functional Track Leads to ensure alignment across all deployment activities.

• Coordinate with regional deployment leads to ensure consistent application of global standards.

• Escalate risks and propose mitigation strategies to program executives and steering committees.

• Oversee deployment execution across all phases including pre-deployment planning, mapping and cleansing readiness, testing cycles, mock loads, cutover execution, go-live, and hypercare.

• Ensure that data conversion cycles meet quality, timeliness, and completeness targets.

• Ensure MDG workflows, data models, and governance rules are fully deployed and validated before go-live.

• Align MDG configuration and data lifecycle controls with global template and regulatory expectations.

• Define and oversee global data quality objectives, metrics, and validation requirements.

• Ensure compliance with GxP, SOX, GDPR, audit, data integrity (ALCOA+), and other regulatory frameworks.

• Oversee reporting enablement, dashboard deployment, and analytical dataset readiness for each release.

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Senior Manager Release Deploy Leads.

• Drive continuous enhancement of deployment methodology, tools, accelerators, templates, and processes.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in IT, Data Management, Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline.

• 12+ years of experience in SAP data deployment, data migration, MDG, or enterprise data governance roles.

• Experience leading data deployment in at least one major SAP S/4HANA or ECC global transformation program.

• Strong understanding of SAP data structures across MM, SD, FI/CO, PP, QM, WM/EWM, BP, and MDG.

• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred.

• Deep understanding of GxP, SOX, audit, CSV, data integrity (ALCOA+), GDPR, and quality requirements.

• Demonstrated experience leading global teams and managing senior-level staff.

Experience & Skills

• Expertise in SAP S/4HANA data migration methodologies, ETL tools, and conversion orchestrations.

• Hands-on understanding of MDG-M, MDG-C, MDG-S, and BP data governance frameworks.

• Experience supporting SIT/BST/UAT/PQ test cycles and ensuring test data integrity.

• Strong knowledge of analytical reporting, datasets, KPIs, and BI platform deployment.

• Proven ability to lead and inspire multi-regional teams in a complex matrix environment.

• Exceptional ability to manage large-scale, multi-release deployment programs.

• Strong skills in risk management, issue resolution, and executive-level communication.

• Ability to influence global stakeholders across business, IT, compliance, and quality functions.

• Strong facilitation, negotiation, and cross-functional alignment capabilities.

• High attention to detail and strong commitment to compliance and audit readiness.

• Proactive problem solver with a continuous improvement mindset.

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