Transcend Deployment Logistics Manager

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Supply Chain Planning

Inventory Management

People Leader

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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 personalized. 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.

We are seeking a highly motivated Transcend Deployment Logistics Manager to support the deployment of Johnson & Johnson's global digital transformation program. This role will serve as the logistics deployment lead, partnering across Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Business Process Owners, and Technology teams to ensure successful implementation of logistics capabilities within SAP S/4

HANA and supporting platforms.

The Transcend Deployment Logistics Manager is responsible for leading logistics readiness, deployment planning, business engagement, and execution activities during global ERP transformation deployments. This individual will work across multiple regions, sites, and functional areas to ensure logistics business processes, master data, integrations, testing, training, and change management activities are successfully delivered.

The role requires strong program leadership, stakeholder management, and supply chain expertise to enable seamless adoption of standardized logistics processes while ensuring business continuity throughout deployment.

• Lead logistics deployment activities for Transcend program releases and site implementations.
• Partner with global process owners and deployment teams to execute best practice deployment strategies and timelines.
• Drive logistics workstream readiness assessments and risk mitigation plans.
• Ensure alignment between business requirements and standardized global solutions.

• Support end-to-end logistics processes including:
  • Inventory Management
  • Warehouse Management Operations
  • Shop floor inventory management
  • Transportation Management
  • Distribution and Fulfillment
  • Third-Party Logistics (3PL) Integration, including off site storage sites and vendor managed inventory.
  • Batch Traceability and Serialization
  • Goods Receipt, Internal goods movements, and Goods Issue Processes
• Facilitate fit-gap discussions and deployment decisions with business stakeholders.

• Coordinate business simulation testing (BST), user acceptance testing (UAT), training, and cutover activities.
• Ensure business users are prepared to adopt new processes and technologies.
• Develop deployment communications and executive status reporting.
• Manage stakeholder expectations and drive issue resolution.

• Partner with Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, Quality, Finance, and IT organizations.
• Collaborate with external logistics providers and integration partners.
• Support master data readiness and data governance activities.
• Identify process improvement opportunities that enhance service, efficiency, and compliance.

• Track deployment risks, issues, dependencies, and mitigation plans.
• Present deployment readiness updates to leadership teams and governance forums.
• Monitor deployment KPIs and stabilization activities post go-live.
• Ensure adherence to compliance, quality, and validation requirements.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Information Systems,…