Senior Manager, Logistics Network & Orchestration – Logistics Network Orchestration

Job Description

Senior Manager, Logistics Network & Orchestration | Johnson and Johnson

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Johnson & Johnson, located in Cork, Ireland; Latina, Italy; Leiden, Netherlands; or Lisbon, Portugal, with a hybrid work policy requiring a minimum of three days on-site each week. Johnson & Johnson is dedicated to innovating healthcare to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, delivering smarter, less invasive treatments and personal solutions across the full spectrum of healthcare. This role is crucial for modernizing foundational logistics processes through a standardized SAP S/4HANA platform, enhancing agility, consistency, visibility, and scale within the Innovative Medicine Logistics network. You will connect and orchestrate critical processes and business events, strengthening end-to-end inventory visibility and exception management to profoundly impact health for humanity.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Location: Hybrid – Cork, Ireland; Latina, Italy; Leiden, Netherlands; Lisbon, Portugal
• Team: Transcend IM Global Template Organization
• Mission: Lead capabilities that connect processes, business events, information flows, and external partners across the Innovative Medicine Logistics network, bringing the E2E Logistics Template to life.
• Tech Stack: SAP S/4HANA

What You’ll Actually Do
• Template Ownership: Own and evolve the Global Logistics Network & Orchestration Template, including its standards, controls, roadmap, and lifecycle, to enable fit-to-standard, clean-core adoption and scalable growth.
• Process Integration: Ensure key processes and capabilities are integrated into the global template, designed and documented end to end, and deployed within program scope and timelines.
• Design Navigation: Navigate design gaps and cross-domain dependencies, shape capability and release priorities, and bring forward clear recommendations on material trade-offs.
• Value Generation: Drive measurable enterprise value by establishing clear outcomes, monitoring adoption and performance, surfacing risks and decisions early, and mobilizing business and technology partners around corrective action and continuous improvement.
• Network Orchestration: Connect and orchestrate processes and business events across the logistics network while strengthening end-to-end inventory visibility and exception management.

The Must-Haves
• Background: A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in supply chain, logistics, operations, engineering, business, technology, or a related field is required for this Senior Manager role.
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience, with experience across logistics networks and depth in two or more areas such as inventory/event visibility, business-event orchestration, exception management, third-party logistics connectivity, or integration. This includes experience leading complex, large-scale global transformations across logistics, supply chain, digital, or process environments, and bringing operational/technology-enabled processes to life from design to continuous improvement within a global organization.
• Skills: Sound judgment and a balanced perspective to navigate standardization, patient and customer needs, compliance, risk, value, and speed; a collaborative attitude and passion for building trusted partnerships across teams, functions, geographies, and levels; and curiosity and a passion for continuous learning and innovation, translating new ideas into impactful logistics capabilities and business value.
• Bonus: Certifications in Project Management, Supply Chain, Process Excellence, Product Management, or Design Thinking are a plus. Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, or other regulated global environments is preferred, along with exposure to global templates, business architecture, process intelligence, data strategy, product or capability management. Experience connecting business and technology through integration, traceability, event management, visibility, orchestration, analytics, automation, or AI-enabled capabilities, or exposure to temperature-controlled logistics and complex ERP landscapes.