Global Data and Analytics Deploy Lead

Job Function: Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function: Digital Strategy & Deployment

Job Category: People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Latina, Italy, Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland, Zug, Switzerland

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 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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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/4

HANA 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.

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