Director, MDMP (MDG) Deployment lead - Johnson & Johnson Consumer Services EAME Ltd.

Kenvue is currently recruiting for:

Director, MDMP (MGD) Deployment lead

This position reports to Sr. Director OneS4 Deployment Leader and is located in the United States. Preferred location is Skillman, New Jersey or remote.

Who we are

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Role reports to: Sr. Director OneS4 Deployment Leader

Location: Skillman, New Jersey. Other Kenvue office locations in NA or EU

Travel %: 25%

Pay: $174,000 - $235,000

What you will do

The Director, MDMP (MGD) Deployment lead will be a critical part of the MDMP program Leadership team, a complex, multi-year business and technology transformation initiative that will modernize our Data process and system capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ecosystem, standardizing our Master Data (Vendor, Customer, Material, Finance) processes across Supply Chain, Market and Financial Operations, and enabling our integrated data strategy. The key responsibility for this role is to ensure the MDMP project is delivered on time, in budget and for the agreed scope to fully realize business benefits. This will be achieved with robust action focused deployment governance, driving coordination across the individual workstreams related to project planning, interdependencies, risk management, testing and cutover, while ensuring alignment to a single deployment methodology.

Our MDMP deployment leader will ensure alignment and adherence to the Enterprise programs methodology, standards, and guidelines, driving a deployment and execution excellence mindset. The leader will have accountability for ensuring all connected applications have defined scope, budget, workplans and resources mobilized for successful deployments, actively managing key interdependency risks, and ensuring all projects are delivered on time and on budget.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads weekly executional deployment reviews, to ensure the project is executing to plans to enable the overall integrated plan to be delivered, with a bias for action,
• Accountable for orchestrating cross workstream planning and assure quality of the integrated project plan & roadmap with dependencies and mitigations, underpinned by the individual project release plans.
• Responsible for the MDMP projects deployment Excellence. Adherence to the Enterprise programs methodology is critical to optimize the deployment approach (people, process, technology) to be followed by all in scope workstreams / functions.
• Ensure each project follows the centrally governed stage gate process. This includes utilizing the scorecard and project phase entry and exit criteria and utilizing standard tools (e.g. focus build for requirement mgt, Jira for risk mgt etc.).
• Primary escalation mgt for project risks . The individual workstreams will maintain risk management responsibility. Ensure holistic view across all aspects of prorject driving status and risk tracking across solution and organization readiness.
• Lead the deployment elements of MDMP project team: Cutover, Test and hypecare, project management resources. Leads to ensure standards and structures are being applied across all set programs in line with defined methodology and support critical project risk areas.

What we are looking for

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree required
• Minimum of 12 years of progressive experience in leadership roles within Operations, Supply Chain, or Information Technology required
• Minimum of 5 years of Program Management leadership experience on large complex business transformation programs required, one of which being a large-scale ERP implementation, ideally SAP MDG.
• Demonstrable understanding of Supply Chain and/or Financial Process Operations required
• Hands-on project management/delivery required
• Strong communication skills, making the complex clear and compelling to all levels of the organization in both written & oral forms is required.
• Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills, with demonstrable ability to influence/collaborate to get to desired result
• Ability to lead and facilitate design workshops (Blueprint), assessments and planning sessions for cross functional topics
• Specific experience in the Consumer Goods or Consumer Healthcare industry is highly desirable.
• Certification in areas of expertise (e.g., PMP, APICS, Lean/Six Sigma /Process Excellence, etc.) is helpful
• Proven track record of multiple successful deployments isideally SAP MDG,
• Technical skills related to SAP MDG and other relevant tools or technologies

What's in it for you

Annual base salary for new hires in this position ranges from $174,000 - $235,000 . This takes into account a number of factors including work location, the candidate's skills, experience, education level & other job-related factors.

• Competitive Total Rewards Package*
• Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Volunteer Time & More!
• Learning & Development Opportunities
• Employee Resource Groups

*Note: Total Rewards at Kenvue include salary, bonus (if applicable) and benefits. Your Talent Access Partner will be able to share more about our total rewards offerings and the specific salary range for the relevant location(s) during the recruitment & hiring process.

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic, and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.