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**Job Function**:
Project/Program Management Group
**Job Sub Function**:
Technology Program/Portfolio Management
**Job Category**:
Professional
**All Job Posting Locations**:
Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia

**About Innovative Medicine**

Transcend is a general 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.

**_ United States: - Requisition Number:_** **_R-059117 _**

**_Colombia: - Requisition Number: R-061999_**

Transcend Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Sr Manager Business Test & Validation Lead. This position will be in Titusville, NJ. Alternate locations may be considered in Raritan, NJ and Bogota, Colombia.

We are searching for the best talent for Transcend; Business Test & Validation Senior Manager. The Manager plays critical leadership role with the J&J; Innovative Medicine (IM) Transcend team and serves as a member of the Deployment team. The Manager is accountable for serving as a Business & Validation Test Lead and responsible for and accountable to the testing & validation strategy.



This includes definition and creation, facilitating all aspects of test preparation, leading test execution, and driving formal closure of all testing reporting requirements.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Build and lead formal program test strategy
- Integrate and coordinate cross-program interdependencies, issues, and challenges by working across functional areas to ensure efficient end-to-end testing and controls
- Handle all activities related to the preparation and readiness for testing execution
- Ensure test data set up is completed, and route for pre-execution review and approval
- Drive standard processes, scale, leveragability, and resource optimization to ensure cross-program end-to-end testing is implemented per plan
- Develop and deliver test and validation progress through established metrics to senior-level IM leaders and collaborators
- Establish and implement exit criteria for each Test Cycle
- Lead all post-execution testing requirements and approvals, including formal Traceability Matrix enablement
- Enthusiastically seek to promote standard methodology and continuous improvement principles across Functional system deployments

**Qualifications**

**Education**:

- Minimum of a Bachelor’s/University or equivalent degree is required

**Experience and Skills**:
Required:

- Minimum 8 - 10 years of relevant work experience
- Experience in leadership roles within Operations, Supply Chain,



or large transformation programs/deployments
- Program Management experience (preferably on large, sophisticated business transformation programs)
- Experience leading/developing people (direct or indirect reports)
- Experience managing and executing business simulation testing or user acceptance testing and validation for complex, highly integrated projects
- Hands-on project management/delivery experience, including experience leading projects, timelines, and organizational change
- Solid understanding of JIRA, HP-ALM, or equivalent tracking tool
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills, with proven track record to influence/collaborate to get the desired result
- Strong communication to create clear and concise messaging to leadership and the ability to work well in teams, cross-functionally, and with all levels of the organization, ability to manage and develop internal and external stakeholders
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- SAP or other major ERP implementation experience

Preferred:

- Experience in Life Sciences, Pharmaceutical, or related industry
- Familiarity with software test automation tools and frameworks such as Tosca or equivalent
- Experience with S/4 Hana
- Experience with Agile Methodology
- Certification such as PMP / FPX, APICS, Lean/Six Sigma /Process Excellence are preferable

Other:

- Requires up to 25% domestic and international travel

**Required Skills**:
ERP Implementation, Project Management, Strategic Program Management
**Preferred Skills**:
Analytics Dashboards, Consulting, Customer Alignment, Data Analysis, Developing Others, Information Technology Strategies, Lateral Leadership, Organizing, Process Improvements, Product Portfolio Management, Projec

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📌 Transcend; Business Test and Validation Senior Manager (Bogotá)
🏢 Johnson & Johnson
📍 Bogotá