Transcend : Director, Change Strategy

Director, Change Strategy

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.

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. This program will simplify the Pharmaceutical ERP landscape from 7 to 1, standardizing processes to have a cost-effective, fit-for-purpose digital backbone that will enable us to support the Pharmaceutical business with agility. Additionally, the program will remediate the end-of-life system exposure that we risk towards the end of this decade.

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, Change Strategy! This hybrid position will be located in Titusville, NJ. Are you ready to advance your career in Digital Transformation? Join our world-class global team! Sitting on the IM Transcend Strategy team, you will design and implement transformative change strategies, influence senior leaders and organizations, and embed a culture of agility and continuous improvement across a sophisticated global enterprise. As a trusted advisor, you'll craft impactful strategies, resource plans, and partner engagement models; lead efforts to standardize global processes and establish balanced change practicestranslating sophisticated organizational change into scalable, measurable initiatives aligned to business goals and long-term value realization.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead early assessment activities, including process walkthroughs and engagement of partner, to identify high-impact change drivers.
• Develop and champion the strategic change plans, ensuring comprehensive risk mitigation, prioritization, and readiness planning for future releases.
• Facilitate prioritization of change activities in tandem with release schedules, ensuring proactive readiness assessment.
• Lead a high-performing team in crafting and delivering early change artifactspersona development, journey mapping, impact assessments, and success metricsensuring consistency across project streams.
• Collaborate with the business teams and CEBA partners to address critical talent and organizational change needs, ensuring workforce readiness for transformation.
• Serve as a role model for leadership, credibility, and strategic influence, shaping a high-performing, engaged change management community.
• Lead, develop, and mentor a distributed team of internal and external resources supporting change efforts.
Qualifications :
• Education :
• Minimum of High School or equivalent diploma / degree is required
• Bachelor's / University or higher degree is strongly preferred, with a focused degree in Supply Chain, Business, Technology, Engineering, or Organizational Psychology
• Experience and Skills :
• Required :
• At least (10) years of relevant leadership experience driving large scale transformations, change strategy and realization efforts at global scale
• Forward looking with a broad view and capable of aligning organizational change strategies across the end-to-end business continuum Supply Chain, Commercial, R&D, Finance, etc
• Outstanding communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with consistent record to influence and engage partners at all levels
• Consistent track record as change leader on global transformational projects; with validated hands on experience with methodologies and techniques
• Outstanding active listening skills & ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences at varying levels
• Must be a standout colleague and able to work collaboratively with and through others
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, savvy at identifying risks and devising effective mitigation strategies across sophisticated problems
• Ability to build deep networks and crafts future opportunities for enhanced business results
• Preferred :
• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain interactions and interdependencies with other functions, including end-customer touchpoints
• Experience working in a sophisticated, multi-ERP / system environment and proven experience with large-scale SAP ERP replacement project(s)
• Pharmaceuticals, Life Sciences, or other regulated industry experience

This position requires up to 30% domestic and international travel.

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 :

The anticipated base pay range for this position is 150,000 - 258,750.