Release Manager Reporting & Analytics

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Introduction 

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.   

IM Transcend is a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will modernize our end-to-end Supply Chain digital capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ecosystem of 7+ major global ERP systems, standardizing our core business processes and products [across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Quality, and Data], and enabling our integrated data strategy through a single SAP S/4 HANA instance.   

The Release Manager Reporting & Analytics is a functional role within a large-scale, multi-year global SAP S/4HANA transformation program, with responsibility to manage Reports, KPIs, and Analytics across multiple global releases. 

Responsible for managing and delivering accurate, timely, and actionable data reporting for S/4 operations, ensuring alignment with business objectives and driving operational excellence. Accountable for developing and maintaining custom analytics within S/4 ensuring the business is prepared and equipped to adopt and leverage these capabilities effectively.​ 

Key Responsibilities 

• Release/deployment strategy and planning: Own the deployment calendar for reports, KPIs, and analytics across for multiple releases, define scope, timelines with key stakeholders. 

• Track key operational metrics and provide insights to support decision-making​. 

• Ensure integrity, consistency, and compliance of all reported data.​ 

• Work closely with operations teams and stakeholders to understand reporting needs and deliver tailored solutions.​ 

• Identify opportunities to enhance reporting processes and tools for efficiency and scalability.​ 

• Deploy custom analytical repots​. 

• Ensure UAT and acceptance of reports​. 

• Lead hypercare for data reporting​. 

• Ensure handover to final end users.​ 

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Management, Engineering, Business, Supply Chain, or related discipline. 

• 3+ years of experience in SAP deployment or enterprise deployment roles. 

• Experience leading data reporting and business intelligence.

• Understanding of SAP data structures. 

• Experience in the pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or other highly regulated industries strongly preferred. 

• Understanding of GxP, SOX, audit, CSV, data integrity (ALCOA+), GDPR, and quality requirements. 

Experience & Skills 

•Release management fundamentals: Building and maintaining release calendars, playbooks, and rollback plans, coordinating cross-team dependencies, change management, coordinate post-release reviews, incident management and root-cause analysis tied to releases.

Experience supporting testing cycles SIT/BST/UAT.  

• Strong knowledge of analytical reporting, datasets, KPIs, and BI platform deployment. 

• Proven ability to communicate in a complex matrix environment. 

• Skills in risk management, issue resolution.