Dir - Finance Tech product Lead

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Job Function:

Enterprise Management

Job Sub Function:

Technology Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cork, Cork, Ireland, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

General Information

Position Title: IM Finance Tech Lead

(Pharm Non-Transcend)

Supervisor Title: Senior Director, IM Transcend, Finance Group Product Leader

Department Name: JJT Pharm Supply Chain

Position Summary

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Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for an IM Finance Tech Lead to support the Innovative Medicine (IM) Finance Transformation program. The preferred location for this role is in the EMEA region.

At Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, we are working to create a world without disease. Our focus is on transforming lives through earlier intervention, better treatments, and smarter approaches to prevention and cure. This is an opportunity to contribute to a passionate organization that brings together science, technology, and talent to improve health for patients around the world.

Innovative Medicine Finance Transformation (IMFT) is a global finance transformation program that will modernise end-to-end finance processes across the Innovative Medicine value chain. The program is designed to standardise processes and data across financial planning activities, including FX, PII, and Tax, while enabling stronger actuals and variance analysis across the relevant capabilities. IMFT will also enable more consistent reporting across Finance teams. By building a scalable digital backbone, IMFT will strengthen business agility and address critical system modernisation needs for the future.

This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of finance capabilities within the Innovative Medicine business. Johnson & Johnson is seeking a leader with solid experience in managing technology products in the finance domain, owning end-to-end technology selection, and integrating products into the J&J ecosystem to set direction, drive implementation, and advance global standardization across the IM Finance landscape. The IM Finance Tech Lead will also serve on the Pharm Supply Chain Finance JJT leadership team.

As a key member of the Finance Transformation team, the IM Finance Tech Lead will lead a team of 10+ Johnson & Johnson experts and 20+ consultants. The main focus of this role is to assess best-in-class technology solutions for identified business capabilities, drive vendor engagement, and perform technology assessments and validations in partnership with various technology groups. Partner with procurement and compliance teams within Johnson & Johnson. In identifying the best-fit solution, this role will also perform make-versus-buy assessments to determine the right technology capabilities across the Finance and technology landscape. The IM Finance Tech Lead will lead and shape intercompany-relevant finance capabilities such as Intercompany Pricing, Intercompany Archetypes, and their integration with Supply Chain process areas and downstream finance process areas. This role will support the end-to-end IM Finance data strategy, enabling the development of the right analytics and AI capabilities for the finance business.

This role requires strong people leadership, including talent development through Johnson & Johnson’s 3E model (Education, Exposure, Experience), and the ability to influence across functions, technologies, and programs. The leader will oversee platform governance, continuous improvement, strategic capability enablement, human-centred design, and integration across the digital ecosystem. In close partnership with Template Owners, Process Owners, and Deployment leaders, this role will help drive multiple concurrent deployments, align resources, and support demand and enhancement intake across Finance partners.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

In order of importance, briefly describe, in sentence form, the essential functions/major responsibilities of this position (principal duties and responsibilities of the position) as it exists today. Describe the job, not the person in the job. Each item listed below should be an essential function/major responsibility of the position, not a day-to-day activity.

Typically, job descriptions should contain no more than seven or eight major responsibilities ranked in order of the highest percentage of time to least.

Approximate Percentage of Time

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

40%

Leadership

• Serve as the overall leader for the IMFT product technology group, providing visible and effective leadership.
• Provide proactive assessment, alignment, and guidance to support team effectiveness and a positive, high-performing environment.
• Maintain close engagement with team members and ensure they have the support, clarity, and resources needed to succeed in their roles and deliver objectives.
• Use continuous feedback and Johnson & Johnson leadership principles to guide team members in both functional and non-functional work.
• Serve as a main point of contact for multi-functional leads and the program management team to proactively shape outcomes, anticipate risks, and mitigate issues.
• Drive clarity in talent development planning and represent the team in leadership forums related to talent and organizational development.
• Lead an international, cross-regional team of Product Analysts through design, execution, and deployment.
• Coordinate, coach, motivate, and inspire the team to deliver against agreed plans while continuously improving performance.
• Help shape and grow the JJT organization to enable a global intake, build, and sustain models that support parallel program releases, ongoing operations, projects, and enhancements as IMFT Program is deployed.
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Build and sustain a collaborative environment with vendor partners to support continuous enhancement for the IM Finance business.
• Lead product onboarding with internal J&J technology team members.

20%

Roadmap & Backlog

• Own the vision and prioritizations of new technical features and enhancements for Finance capabilities to meet business needs.
• Define and maintain an integrated Finance product capability roadmap aligned with deployment, base business, and enhancement cycles.
• Partner closely with business Product Owners (Template Owners) to establish a shared vision for business and technical capabilities.
• Partners with vendor resources and industry experts to assess opportunities for capability refinement and replacement, with the goal of leading in key capability areas.
• Establish technology roadmaps that enable efficient and effective delivery of business and customer value for Finance requirements.
• Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritising features, optimising cost, and improving delivery efficiency.
• Refine the backlog by adding necessary technical features and epics, and work with suppliers and Product Owners to ensure supplier capacity and architectural integration are understood.
• Support Product Owners in prioritising backlogs, handling product and platform constraints, resolving cross-team dependencies, and coordinating demand intake as needed.

15%

Solutioning

• Accountable for the solution design and implementation of finance capabilities for the Innovative Medicine Finance function on the identified technology platform and for integration with the relevant ecosystem.
• Drive business process standardization and strategies that enable best-in-class design for end-to-end financial data flows.
• Perform integrated impact assessments across the finance ecosystem and other programs and functions to strengthen end-to-end business capabilities for the Innovative Medicine finance business.
• Engage with partner capability authorities to define best-in-class solutions and the sequencing and release of those capabilities.
• Actively partner with business and functional teams to provide best-fit technical solutions aligned with IMFT program design and implementation standards.
• Drive selection of product and platform solution options, partnering with Technology team members to assess technical elements before user testing and to balance technical debt.
• Provide technical leadership in the design and architecture of ERP solutions that enable best-in-class integration across end-to-end Intercompany flows, including integration technologies.

25%

Delivery

• Accountable for technical delivery and value realization in partnership with the business workstream lead.
• Accountable for handling the integrated build with partner teams to ensure the end-to-end solution is compliant and functions as designed.
• Oversee planning and execution of technical testing by the functional team, and support the business workstream lead in planning and delivering User Acceptance Testing.
• Apply compliance requirements within the scope of responsibility, ensuring SDLC documentation, system configuration, and compliance activities are current and complete as required.
• Drive continuous measurement of capabilities against demand volume, complexity, business challenges, and improvement opportunities within the value streams.

100%

Total

Other Duties

Describe important tasks or duties, not mentioned above, that are performed infrequently and are not critical to accomplishing the essential functions of the job

• Represent the Finance technology team in program-related forums, including Deployment, Change Management, Compliance, Methodology, and Testing.
• Create opportunities to provide relevant exposure and development for team members.

Required Qualifications

Consider and identify qualifications potential applicants must possess to be considered for the position. Basic Qualifications must be clearly stated, objective and relevant to this position.

Required Minimum Education: Degree in Finance Other:

Required Years of Related Experience: A minimum of 15 years of dynamic leadership experience in program and people management roles within Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, or large-scale transformation programs is required. Business finance experience is required. A minimum of 4 years of ERP platform experience in the healthcare or health services industry is also required.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Domain Expertise
• Strong finance domain experience with focus on management accounting.
• Exposure to principal operations, including group/system cost, planning for group cost, and the various techniques used to drive an efficient management accounting process.
• Exposure to Supply Chain finance, including plant-focused controlling activities.
• Good understanding of end-to-end manufacturing processes, production planning, Bill of Materials, Variance analysis.
• Strong knowledge of integration across Production Planning, Materials Management, Sales & Distribution, Financial Accounting, and system integration within the ERP ecosystem.
• Understanding the end-to-end business process linkages across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Finance and Master Data.
• Experience in the pharmaceuticals or healthcare industry, with solid knowledge of SOX and GxP compliance requirements.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and a solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle Management, including documentation requirements.
• Leadership Skills & Behaviors
• Demonstrates a focus on business agility, Agile delivery, a fail-fast attitude, and measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated success in leading multi-functional self-organized teams.
• Experience working in a global environment and leading teams across multiple countries.
• Experience effectively collaborating and managing partners.
• Contributes ideas that challenge conventional thinking and advance outcomes.
• Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to accurately assess situations and make sound decisions based on informed judgment.
• Demonstrates a continuous learning attitude and seeks new ways to implement features and capabilities that improve customer satisfaction.

Travel on the Job:

Indicate whether this position requires travel.

Limited travel

Percentage Travelled:

10%

Type of Travel Required:

Domestic

International

People Management Experience:

Indicate whether supervisor/people management experience is required.

Required

Required Years of People Management Experience:

A minimum of 5 years

Preferred Qualifications

Consider and identify qualifications that are not required to perform the job but would be very advantageous to performing the job.

Preferred Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree Other:

Preferred Area of Study: Information Technology, Supply Chain, Finance

Preferred Related Industry Experience (if applicable): Pharmaceuticals or Healthcare

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Applied knowledge on Finance Transformation.
• People management experience, including developing, mentoring, and coaching others.
• Experience working in a global/regional setting.
• Experience in a large-scale business transformation program.
• Experience managing a product backlog and release plan, supervising team-level metrics, attending product team ceremonies, and removing blockers.

Key Working Relationships

Identify the most important working relationships with people inside and outside the company including customers, vendors, associations, etc. Briefly describe the nature of the contacts.

Internal

Pharm Transcend business and technology teams.

JJT teams supporting applications in the ERP ecosystem.

External

Vendors supporting the Pharm Transcend program.

Supervisory Responsibilities

List number of employees reporting to this position, both directly and through direct reports.

Direct Reports: Team of 9-10 individuals

Indirect Reports: None

Decision Making Authority - Check all appropriate decision-making authority level for this position:

Makes hiring recommendations

Makes hiring decisions

Trains employees

Plans work of others

Reviews work quality and quantity of others

Conducts performance reviews

Makes pay and promotional recommendations

Makes pay and promotional decisions

Resolves employee grievances

Makes termination recommendations

Makes termination decisions

Recommends budget amounts

Makes budget decisions

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Case Modeling, Business Requirements Analysis, Corporate Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Developing Others, Emerging Technologies, Gap Analysis, Global Market, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Operational Excellence, Performance Measurement, Product Improvements, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Product Management, Product Strategies, Quality Assurance (QA), Risk Management, Technical Credibility

  

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.