Biotech & Pharma E-3 Sponsorship Jobs in New Jersey
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Location: Parsippany, NJ (Hybrid)
About Zoetis:
Zoetis is the world's leading animal health company and a Fortune 500 organization headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. We discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize veterinary medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, genetic tests, biodevices, and related services that support veterinarians, livestock producers, and pet owners around the globe. At Zoetis, we are driven by a singular purpose: to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals.
Position Summary:
Zoetis is seeking an experienced Execution Lead, ERP Delivery to lead large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation programs, including our multi-year NextGen SAP S/4HANA Transformation. This leadership role is responsible for the governance, planning, and execution of complex ERP initiatives across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Salesforce, SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris), and integrated business applications. The successful candidate will oversee end-to-end program delivery from initial planning through go-live and hypercare while ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and enterprise governance standards. The ideal candidate brings deep SAP program leadership experience, a proven track record delivering global ERP transformations, and expertise managing cross-functional teams across business and technology organizations.
Key Responsibilities:
Program & Portfolio Leadership
- Lead delivery of the NextGen SAP Transformation program, including Waves 2, 3, and 4.
- Drive end-to-end execution of enterprise ERP initiatives covering configuration, development, security, data migration, integrations, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
- Manage program scope, schedules, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and delivery performance.
- Coordinate business stakeholders, IT teams, implementation partners, and executive leadership to achieve successful outcomes.
- Establish and maintain delivery governance processes, including program plans, RAID logs, decision registers, and executive reporting.
- Manage dependencies across ERP workstreams, deployment waves, business functions, markets, sites, and legal entities.
- Lead M&A integration efforts, including system onboarding, data migration, testing, cutover planning, and deployment activities.
- Ensure successful execution of system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), regression testing, performance testing, deployment readiness, and hypercare support.
- Apply SAP Activate and hybrid delivery methodologies to optimize program execution and business outcomes.
- Ensure program delivery complies with FDA, GxP, SOX, and other global regulatory requirements.
- Establish effective risk management, issue escalation, and mitigation processes.
- Maintain audit readiness, change control, documentation standards, and traceability throughout the program lifecycle.
- Monitor program health and proactively address financial, schedule, quality, and compliance risks.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across ERP delivery practices and governance frameworks.
- Leverage approved enterprise AI tools to improve delivery efficiency, planning, reporting, and decision-making.
- Ensure all AI-generated outputs are reviewed and validated by appropriate business and technology stakeholders.
- Maintain accountability for all delivery decisions and outcomes.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- 8+ years of ERP program delivery experience, including multiple full lifecycle SAP implementations.
- Demonstrated success delivering SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA programs from design through go-live.
- Experience leading large-scale, multi-wave ERP transformations across multiple regions, business units, and legal entities.
- Proven ability to lead global, matrixed teams consisting of business stakeholders, IT resources, and external delivery partners.
- Experience managing integrated testing, cutover planning, deployment activities, and hypercare support.
- Working knowledge of FDA-regulated environments, validated systems, GxP requirements, and SOX controls.
- Experience delivering integrated ERP ecosystems that include Salesforce and SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) solutions.
- Experience utilizing enterprise AI productivity tools to support technology delivery and operational effectiveness.
- SAP S/4HANA greenfield transformation experience.
- Experience leading ERP-related M&A integrations.
- Background in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, animal health, or other regulated industries.
- PMP or equivalent project/program management certification.
Technical Competencies:
- SAP Enterprise Architecture and ERP Platforms
- SAP S/4HANA and ECC Delivery
- Program and Portfolio Management
- Data Migration and Master Data Governance
- Systems Integration and Middleware Architecture
- Financial Governance, Resource Planning, and Budget Management
- Regulatory Compliance (FDA, GxP, SOX)
- Testing, Cutover, and Hypercare Management
- AI-Enabled Delivery Tools and Practices
- Business Process Expertise in Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Commercial Operations
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will be considered.
Work Arrangement:
This position is based in Parsippany, New Jersey and follows a hybrid work model. Regular onsite presence is expected to support program delivery, governance activities, and stakeholder engagement. Occasional domestic and international travel may be required.
The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $146,000 to $209,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the base pay target range for new hire salaries for the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
This position is also eligible for short-term incentive compensation.
This position is also eligible for long-term incentives.
In addition to compensation, Zoetis offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports the physical, emotional and financial wellbeing of our colleagues and their families including healthcare and insurance benefits beginning on day one, a 401K plan with a match and profit-sharing contribution from Zoetis, and 4 weeks of vacation.
Visit zoetisbenefits.com to learn more.
Full time
Regular
Colleague
Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.
Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.
Notice: Zoetis Recruiters will contact candidates via email from an address ending in @zoetis.com and may also initially connect with candidates through LinkedIn, including LinkedIn InMail. Zoetis does not use Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, or other web-based/generic email domains to communicate about job opportunities, interviews, or offers of employment. If you receive a recruitment-related email message claiming to be from Zoetis that does not come from @zoetis.com, please treat it as suspicious. For your security, do not reply, click links, open attachments, share personal or financial information, or send money in response to unexpected or questionable recruitment communications.
Zoetis is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status or any other protected classification. Disabled individuals are given an equal opportunity to use our online application system. We offer reasonable accommodations as an alternative if requested by an individual with a disability. Please contact Zoetis Colleague Services at zoetiscolleagueservices@zoetis.com to request an accommodation. Zoetis also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. All applicants must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis. Zoetis retains sole and exclusive discretion to pursue sponsorship for the acquisition or maintenance of nonimmigrant status and employment eligibility, considering factors such as availability of qualified US workers. Individuals requiring sponsorship must disclose this fact. Please note that Zoetis seeks information related to job applications from candidates for jobs in the U.S. solely via the following: (1) our company website at www.Zoetis.com/careers site, or (2) via email to/from addresses using only the Zoetis domain of “@zoetis.com”. In addition, Zoetis does not use Google Hangout for any recruitment related activities. Any solicitation or request for information related to job applications with Zoetis via any other means and/or utilizing email addresses with any other domain should be disregarded. In addition, Zoetis will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with Zoetis.
Execution Lead, ERP Delivery
Location: Parsippany, NJ (Hybrid)
About Zoetis:
Zoetis is the world's leading animal health company and a Fortune 500 organization headquartered in Parsippany, New Jersey. We discover, develop, manufacture, and commercialize veterinary medicines, vaccines, diagnostics, genetic tests, biodevices, and related services that support veterinarians, livestock producers, and pet owners around the globe. At Zoetis, we are driven by a singular purpose: to nurture our world and humankind by advancing care for animals.
Position Summary:
Zoetis is seeking an experienced Execution Lead, ERP Delivery to lead large-scale, enterprise-wide transformation programs, including our multi-year NextGen SAP S/4HANA Transformation. This leadership role is responsible for the governance, planning, and execution of complex ERP initiatives across SAP S/4HANA, ECC, Salesforce, SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris), and integrated business applications. The successful candidate will oversee end-to-end program delivery from initial planning through go-live and hypercare while ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and enterprise governance standards. The ideal candidate brings deep SAP program leadership experience, a proven track record delivering global ERP transformations, and expertise managing cross-functional teams across business and technology organizations.
Key Responsibilities:
Program & Portfolio Leadership
- Lead delivery of the NextGen SAP Transformation program, including Waves 2, 3, and 4.
- Drive end-to-end execution of enterprise ERP initiatives covering configuration, development, security, data migration, integrations, testing, training, cutover, go-live, and hypercare.
- Manage program scope, schedules, budgets, forecasts, resource plans, and delivery performance.
- Coordinate business stakeholders, IT teams, implementation partners, and executive leadership to achieve successful outcomes.
- Establish and maintain delivery governance processes, including program plans, RAID logs, decision registers, and executive reporting.
- Manage dependencies across ERP workstreams, deployment waves, business functions, markets, sites, and legal entities.
- Lead M&A integration efforts, including system onboarding, data migration, testing, cutover planning, and deployment activities.
- Ensure successful execution of system integration testing (SIT), user acceptance testing (UAT), regression testing, performance testing, deployment readiness, and hypercare support.
- Apply SAP Activate and hybrid delivery methodologies to optimize program execution and business outcomes.
- Ensure program delivery complies with FDA, GxP, SOX, and other global regulatory requirements.
- Establish effective risk management, issue escalation, and mitigation processes.
- Maintain audit readiness, change control, documentation standards, and traceability throughout the program lifecycle.
- Monitor program health and proactively address financial, schedule, quality, and compliance risks.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives across ERP delivery practices and governance frameworks.
- Leverage approved enterprise AI tools to improve delivery efficiency, planning, reporting, and decision-making.
- Ensure all AI-generated outputs are reviewed and validated by appropriate business and technology stakeholders.
- Maintain accountability for all delivery decisions and outcomes.
Qualifications
Required Experience
- 8+ years of ERP program delivery experience, including multiple full lifecycle SAP implementations.
- Demonstrated success delivering SAP ECC and SAP S/4HANA programs from design through go-live.
- Experience leading large-scale, multi-wave ERP transformations across multiple regions, business units, and legal entities.
- Proven ability to lead global, matrixed teams consisting of business stakeholders, IT resources, and external delivery partners.
- Experience managing integrated testing, cutover planning, deployment activities, and hypercare support.
- Working knowledge of FDA-regulated environments, validated systems, GxP requirements, and SOX controls.
- Experience delivering integrated ERP ecosystems that include Salesforce and SAP Commerce Cloud (Hybris) solutions.
- Experience utilizing enterprise AI productivity tools to support technology delivery and operational effectiveness.
- SAP S/4HANA greenfield transformation experience.
- Experience leading ERP-related M&A integrations.
- Background in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, animal health, or other regulated industries.
- PMP or equivalent project/program management certification.
Technical Competencies:
- SAP Enterprise Architecture and ERP Platforms
- SAP S/4HANA and ECC Delivery
- Program and Portfolio Management
- Data Migration and Master Data Governance
- Systems Integration and Middleware Architecture
- Financial Governance, Resource Planning, and Budget Management
- Regulatory Compliance (FDA, GxP, SOX)
- Testing, Cutover, and Hypercare Management
- AI-Enabled Delivery Tools and Practices
- Business Process Expertise in Finance, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Logistics, and Commercial Operations
Education:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline. Equivalent professional experience will be considered.
Work Arrangement:
This position is based in Parsippany, New Jersey and follows a hybrid work model. Regular onsite presence is expected to support program delivery, governance activities, and stakeholder engagement. Occasional domestic and international travel may be required.
The U.S. base salary range for this full-time position is $146,000 to $209,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the base pay target range for new hire salaries for the position. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.
This position is also eligible for short-term incentive compensation.
This position is also eligible for long-term incentives.
In addition to compensation, Zoetis offers a comprehensive benefits package that supports the physical, emotional and financial wellbeing of our colleagues and their families including healthcare and insurance benefits beginning on day one, a 401K plan with a match and profit-sharing contribution from Zoetis, and 4 weeks of vacation.
Visit zoetisbenefits.com to learn more.
Full time
Regular
Colleague
Any unsolicited resumes sent to Zoetis from a third party, such as an Agency recruiter, including unsolicited resumes sent to a Zoetis mailing address, fax machine or email address, directly to Zoetis employees, or to Zoetis resume database will be considered Zoetis property. Zoetis will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume.
Zoetis will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees. This includes any Agency that is an approved/engaged vendor but does not have the appropriate approvals to be engaged on a search.
Notice: Zoetis Recruiters will contact candidates via email from an address ending in @zoetis.com and may also initially connect with candidates through LinkedIn, including LinkedIn InMail. Zoetis does not use Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, or other web-based/generic email domains to communicate about job opportunities, interviews, or offers of employment. If you receive a recruitment-related email message claiming to be from Zoetis that does not come from @zoetis.com, please treat it as suspicious. For your security, do not reply, click links, open attachments, share personal or financial information, or send money in response to unexpected or questionable recruitment communications.
Zoetis is committed to equal opportunity in the terms and conditions of employment for all employees and job applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, gender identity or gender expression, national origin, disability or veteran status or any other protected classification. Disabled individuals are given an equal opportunity to use our online application system. We offer reasonable accommodations as an alternative if requested by an individual with a disability. Please contact Zoetis Colleague Services at zoetiscolleagueservices@zoetis.com to request an accommodation. Zoetis also complies with all applicable national, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment as well as employment eligibility verification requirements of the Immigration and Nationality Act. All applicants must possess or obtain authorization to work in the US for Zoetis. Zoetis retains sole and exclusive discretion to pursue sponsorship for the acquisition or maintenance of nonimmigrant status and employment eligibility, considering factors such as availability of qualified US workers. Individuals requiring sponsorship must disclose this fact. Please note that Zoetis seeks information related to job applications from candidates for jobs in the U.S. solely via the following: (1) our company website at www.Zoetis.com/careers site, or (2) via email to/from addresses using only the Zoetis domain of “@zoetis.com”. In addition, Zoetis does not use Google Hangout for any recruitment related activities. Any solicitation or request for information related to job applications with Zoetis via any other means and/or utilizing email addresses with any other domain should be disregarded. In addition, Zoetis will never ask candidates to make any type of personal financial investment related to gaining employment with Zoetis.
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Which biotech & pharma companies sponsor E-3 visas in New Jersey?
New Jersey is home to several large pharmaceutical employers with established international hiring programs, including Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Novartis, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Becton Dickinson. These companies have filed Labor Condition Applications for E-3 visa workers in roles spanning research, regulatory affairs, and clinical operations. Sponsorship is not guaranteed and depends on the specific role, team budget, and hiring cycle at the time of application.
Which cities in New Jersey have the most biotech & pharma E-3 sponsorship jobs?
The highest concentrations of biotech and pharma employers in New Jersey are found in Raritan, Kenilworth, Princeton, Parsippany, and the broader Route 1 corridor between Princeton and New Brunswick. This stretch hosts research campuses, corporate headquarters, and manufacturing facilities for major pharmaceutical companies. Proximity to New York City also means some roles are hybrid, with offices accessible from the metro area.
What types of biotech & pharma roles typically qualify for E-3 sponsorship?
E-3 sponsorship requires the role to meet the specialty occupation standard, meaning it must typically require at least a bachelor's degree in a specific field. In biotech and pharma, roles that commonly meet this threshold include research scientists, biostatisticians, regulatory affairs specialists, clinical research associates, pharmacokineticists, and bioinformatics analysts. General lab technician or manufacturing operator roles with flexible degree requirements are less likely to qualify.
How do I find biotech & pharma E-3 sponsorship jobs in New Jersey?
Migrate Mate is built specifically for Australian professionals seeking E-3 sponsorship, and you can filter directly by state and industry to surface biotech and pharma roles in New Jersey. Because not all employers advertise E-3 willingness upfront, Migrate Mate focuses on companies with a documented history of sponsoring E-3 or H-1B visa workers, which is a practical proxy for sponsorship openness in this industry.
Are there any New Jersey-specific considerations for biotech & pharma E-3 sponsorship?
New Jersey does not impose state-level visa requirements, but the state's pharma sector is heavily regulated at the federal level, meaning roles in drug development, clinical trials, and regulatory submissions often require specific scientific credentials that align well with the E-3 specialty occupation standard. Australian candidates with degrees in pharmacy, biochemistry, or life sciences from accredited institutions are generally well-positioned, though each application is assessed on its own facts.
What is the prevailing wage for E-3 biotech & pharma jobs in New Jersey?
U.S. employers sponsoring a visa must pay at least the prevailing wage, which is what workers in the same role, area, and experience level typically earn. The Department of Labor sets this rate to make sure companies aren't hiring foreign workers simply because they'd accept lower pay than a U.S. worker. It varies by job title, location, and experience. You can look up current prevailing wage rates for any occupation and location using the OFLC Wage Search page.