Sr. Manager, Transcend Program Lead

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:

Irvine, California, United States of America, Remote (US)

Job Description:

J&J MedTech Aesthetics & Reconstruction (Mentor) is recruiting for a Sr. Manager, Transcend Program Lead. This role will be based in Irvine, California on a remote schedule.  The role is for a limited duration of a minimum of 14 months with option to extend. Eligibility for severance.

An internal pre-identified candidate for consideration has been identified. However, all applications will be considered.

About Surgery

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting!

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Position Summary:

This position is a transformation leadership role supporting Mentor’s participation in Project Transcend, Johnson & Johnson’s global ERP transformation to SAP S4/HANA and its connected digital ecosystem.

The Sr. Manager, Transcend Program Lead serves as the single threaded leader for Mentor’s end-to-end ERP transformation through Project Transcend. This role is accountable for translating global program design into Mentor specific execution, ensuring alignment across all business functions and technology ecosystems. The role combines enterprise program governance with hands-on project execution, leading all aspects of Mentor’s readiness, deployment, and stabilization. This includes ownership of business continuity, customer experience, and commercial performance throughout the transformation. This individual acts as the primary bridge between global Transcend program teams and Mentor business leadership, ensuring Mentor requirements are represented, risks are proactively managed, and the organization is fully prepared to operate in the future state environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Mentor’s Transcend program execution, aligning all business functions to global timelines, design, and deployment strategy
• Drive cross functional participation in solution confirmation, ensuring alignment across Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and Customer Service, Deliver, Planning and other functions
• Serve as the primary Mentor business representative, providing guidance on enterprise process requirements and resolving cross functional design decisions
• Lead enterprise change impact assessment and business readiness planning across all workstreams
• Represent Mentor in system demos and design reviews, providing structured, strategic feedback across the ERP ecosystem
• Oversee data readiness across customer, product, contract, and financial domains, including cleansing, validation, and migration preparedness
• Define and govern end to end test scenarios to support integrated business process validation, including complex Mentor use cases
• Lead enterprise validation activities through integrated testing and business simulations
• Assess and communicate solution impacts to business performance, customer experience, and operational continuity
• Ensure SOPs, process documentation, and training are developed, aligned, and completed prior to deployment
• Provide leadership for cutover planning, deployment execution, post go live stabilization, and issue resolution
• Identify and manage Mentor specific project needs, ensuring execution, accountability, and alignment across all workstreams

Qualifications:

Required:

• Minimum eight (8) years of experience in Program or Project Management, preferably within ERP or large-scale transformation initiatives
• Bachelor’s degree required
• Proven experience leading enterprise level, cross functional transformation programs with multiple workstreams
• Deep experience with ERP implementations or transformations, preferably SAP S4/HANA
• Strong understanding of end-to-end business processes, including, but not limited to Commercial, Finance, Supply Chain, and Customer Operations
• Experience working in regulated industries, preferably medical device or healthcare
• Demonstrated ability to manage complexity, drive decision making, and execute under ambiguity
• Strong executive communication, stakeholder alignment, and influencing skills
• Analytical and problem-solving capabilities to identify gaps, assess impacts, and drive continuous improvement

Preferred:

• Experience supporting or leading Transcend or similar global ERP transformation programs
• Experience within Aesthetics, MedTech, or device-based businesses
• Familiarity with consignment models, device tracking, and regulated operational processes
• Experience with ERP ecosystem integrations including CRM, service platforms, and data solutions

Benefits Summary:

• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Employees may be 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.
• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
  • Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year
  • Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year
  • Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year
  • Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Additional information can be found through the link below!

https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers. Internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Business Alignment, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$122,000.00 - $212,750.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.