Manager Tech Product Management

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 Job Function: Technology Product & Platform Management Job Sub Function: Technical Product Management Job Category: People Leader All Job Posting Locations: Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Gurgaon, Haryana, India, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, Mumbai, India, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, PENJERLA, Telangana, India, Pune, Maharashtra, India Job Description: 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 , 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 Manages a team of individual contributors and/or Supervisors, and is accountable for conducting effective performance management. Develops tactical and operational plans to achieve Technical Product Management goals, and communicates plans to managers, supervisors, and individual contributors. Develops, owns, and executes product roadmap, as required. Prioritizes and maintains the sprint backlog for assigned products, balancing the requirements of stakeholders. Leads the product functional design process based on an intimate knowledge of the users and technology. Advises managers to ensure functionality of all products and make pricing decisions. Anticipates bottlenecks, provides escalation management, and builds consensus by understanding stakeholder requirements and constraints. Ensures compliance with product development timelines and procedures to achieve the organization's goals and objectives for the Technical Product Management function. Responsible for managing operational aspects of their team (e.g., workflow, performance, and compliance), as well as ensuring achievement of team goals within established timelines and budgets. Integrates Johnson & Johnson’s Credo and Leadership Imperatives into team goals and decision making. As part of the Pharm Transcend Program, the Technical Product Manager Finance will be an active member of the Pharm Supply Chain JJT team, driving global standardization within Pharma of ERP technology solutions in the scope of Supply Chain Finance (Product Costing/Material Ledger).  The position leads design, validation, and delivery of SAP S/4 capabilities and data aligned with business process needs. The position governs the scope of the SAP S/4 template and drives template innovation and evolution through the deployments.   Key Responsibilities: • Support Business Product Owner in defining user stories • Shape and prioritize backlog, applying business expertise and understanding of customer needs, translate requirements into user stories & acceptance criteria • Balance business value with technical feasibility while prioritizing stories and features, optimizing cost and improving delivery efficiency • Act as the “voice of the customer” within the squad to ensure the squad “builds the right thing” • Ensures the backlog is healthy: at least 2-3 sprints ahead of squad within definition of ready to enter the sprint and with a clear definition of done. Solution Design • Explain how requirements may be implemented from a functional standpoint and drive/improve user experience. • Drive selection of solution options, work with the Lead Engineer to assess tech elements of the solution prior to user testing • Support Lead Engineer in defining technical solutions • Identify business needs related to solutions requiring integration and configuration options as well as understand application landscape to ensure solution meets organizational needs. • Design integrations based on business needs and J&J standard processes and recommend appropriate connection types, while evaluating impacts. Product Delivery • Facilitate release planning, sprint planning and demos with team members • Accountable to manage the integrated build with the Software Engineers, Testers and Release Train Engineers to ensure the end-to-end build of a particular part of a solution is compliant and works as designed. • Support Lead Engineer to plan and implement all Technical Testing; Support Business Process Owner to plan and implement User Acceptance Testing. • Apply compliance requirements within scope of responsibility, ensures SDLC documentation, system configuration and compliance activities are up to date as the need arises • Drive reporting and analytics to provide transparency on squad performance and monitor sprint metrics and user results Operational Leadership • Shape the squad vision & roadmap; Steer the squad in delivering products & features oriented around business impact • Interact with other Squads within the Project/Platform as part of synchronization ceremonies to implement cross-squad tasks • Drive engagement with third parties to support delivery of squad objectives • Plan resourcing for the squad (i.e. new role, change in role), create ASOE requests, interview, select and onboard members to join the squad • Drive continuous improvement across the product lifecycle Education: Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s degree Other: Required Years of Related Experience: A minimum of 10 to 15  years of relevant work experience is required, a minimum of 4 years relevant SAP experience is required.  Experience and Skills: Required:  • Domain Expertise • Strong Knowledge of Supply Chain Finance business processes: Material Ledger Configuration, Cutover, Data Migration, Interim State, Product Cost Planning, Integrated Manufacturing Processes, Subcontracting Processes, Variance Analysis, Period end closing, Cost Allocation • Strong Knowledge of SAP-ERP Product Costing technical capabilities on: * Product Cost Planning: Cost Component Structure, Costing Variant configuration, Parallel Valuation, Plan Vs Actual cost comparison.  * Cost Object Controlling: Work in process, Variance calculation and Settlement structure * Actual Costing/Material Ledger: Material Ledger and Actual Costing * Cost Objects such as Profitability Segment,  WBS , Orders (including CO Production Order, Maintenance Order) • Should have worked with Project and Budgeting systems. • Understanding the end-to-end business process linkages across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Finance and Master Data. • Experience in Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare industry and good Knowledge of SOX & GxP compliance regulations. • Experience with Agile methodology and solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle Management model and documentation. • Leadership Skills & Behaviors • Focuses on Business agility, Agile delivery with a fail-fast approach, and measurable outcomes. • Demonstrated success in leading multi-functional self-organized teams. • Chips in ideas that challenge thinking. • Strong problem-solving skills with ability of accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment. A constant learner, looking for new ways to implement features and functions that creates higher levels of customer satisfaction.  Preferred: Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:  • Applied knowledge of S/4 HANA. • Experience working in a global/regional setting. • Experience in a large-scale business transformation program.     Required Skills:     Preferred Skills: Analytical Reasoning, Consulting, Cost Management, Developing Others, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, People Performance Management, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Resource Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Team Management