Manager, Transcend IMO

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, and solutions are personal.

Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and Med Tech, 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.

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Job Function  Project/Program Management Group
Job Sub Function  Project/Program Management
Job Category  Professional
All Job Posting Locations  Latina, Italy, Lisbon, Portugal, Little Island, Cork, Ireland, Madrid, Spain

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
Transcend is a global business transformation program that will modernize our foundational transactional processes and harmonize them into one “clean” ERP as a standardized platform for growth and efficiency gains. The program will simplify the sector ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes to deliver a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that enables us to support the Innovative Medicine business with agility.

It will also remediate end-of-life system exposure expected toward the end of this decade.
We are searching for the best talent for Manager, Transcend IMO. This hybrid role is located in Cork, Ireland. Alternate hybrid locations may be considered at other Innovative Medicine Supply Chain (IMSC) hubs location such as:
Madrid, Spain;
Latina, Italy; and Lisbon, Portugal.
About The Interdependency Management Office (IMO)  The IMO is the connective tissue between Transcend and the initiatives running across IM portfolios and enterprise functions. It provides a common intake for interdependencies and ERP demand, triages and routes items to the appropriate pathway, supports assessment of Transcend impact, and tracks items through decision and closure in partnership with Transcend and portfolio governance.
Position Summary  The Manager, IMO supports the IMO’s day-to-day operations and contributes functional insight to the assessment of interdependencies between Transcend and other initiatives. The role combines operational rigor (intake, triage, routing, register, cadence, reporting) with functional depth in SAP-enabled supply chain processes, helping assessments explain why a dependency exists, what drives its timing, and what it means for the program.
This role also maintains the IMO’s institutional knowledge: the assessment frameworks, guiding principles, use case library and collaborator network developed through each assessment cycle.
Major Duties And Responsibilities  Interdependency Intake, Triage and Functional Assessment   Execute the IMO end-to-end process (Identify, Route, Assess and Decide, Integrate, Monitor and Close) for interdependencies and demand raised across IM portfolios and enterprise functions.
Run the IMO intake: confirm completeness, pre-screen, classify by use case and route to the appropriate pathway (e.g., Strategic…