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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub** **Function:

Technology Program/Portfolio Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Innovative Medicine Technology - Advanced Therapies Supply Chain (IMT ATSC) is seeking a dedicated **Senior Manager, Technology Leader Product Operate – North America** , based in the Raritan, NJ.

The NA program focuses on **digitizing manufacturing and product release activities for CARVYKTI** , J&J’s first commercial cell therapeutic product developed in partnership with Legend Biotech.

Cell therapy is recognized as the third major revolution in pharmaceutical technology, and this program is setting new industry benchmarks. To support NA supply, three new manufacturing facilities—CryoPreservation, LentiViral Vector, and Cell Manufacturing—are being established in Raritan, NJ.

The **Product Operate Technology Lead NA** is responsible for delivering the NA program, ensuring accountability for delivering projects that enhance the digital maturity of these manufacturing plants.

As a Technology Leader, you will orchestrate **ground-breaking initiatives** , driving data integration, **governance** , and project execution. Your expertise will be pivotal in enabling our ongoing efforts, empowering us to stay at the forefront of **innovation.**

They will play a key role in guiding business partners and product owners on the deployment of the **NA Product Operate strategy** , ensuring alignment with broader business NA manufacturing strategies. You will focus on delivering impactful solutions that create business value.

This role involves leading sophisticated, **multi-year business and technology projects** , ensuring scalable solutions across various technology platforms. You will work closely with the IMT ATSC NA Site Lead, responsible for supporting operational activities at the manufacturing plants, and with multiple Technical Product Owners

KEY ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The Technology Lead will serve as a **key partner** to the NA Advanced Therapies project teams, various Innovative Medicine’s Technological product owners to understand business investments, align these with JJT ATSC strategies, and ensure that projects selected during Business Planning have the vital budget for JJT execution support.

In collaboration with business partners, this role will prepare documentation to secure budget approvals, communicate project details by explaining cost components and business value, and ensure seamless JJT execution. This will involve **working in tandem with different Technology and Business Product Owners** to facilitate smooth project delivery.

Collaboration:

+ Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with business functional leaders in ATSC NA and Legend Biotech NA, technical teams in IMT ATSC and across-JJT (TS), Vendor partners.

+ Global-Regional Partnerships: Build and enable effective program management with partners at both global and regional levels.

+ Customer Engagement: Engaging with partners at different level is crucial. This includes gathering input, addressing concerns, and align projects with the overall business strategy and goals.

+ Digital portfolio execution: Coordinate financial decisions and trade-offs to optimize the value of E2E decisions in close collaboration with the key business partners.

Leadership:

+ Vision and Strategy: As a leader, you implement the HPT model and the defined vision and strategy. This involves setting clear objectives, outlining the digital plant roadmap, and ensuring that the team is aligned.

+ Influencing Skills: As a strategic partner and though leader, this individual will strongly exhibit influencing skills with our business partners, technical product owners and 3rd party service provides in the journey of defining and delivering the strategy,

+ Technology Roadmap: Create technical roadmaps for IMT ATSC Product Operate NA in partnership with IMT ATSC architect and experience design teams.

+ Technical Leadership: Understanding and translating business opportunities into a comprehensive set of solutions spanning process, technology, data and governance

+ Governance: Drive a true program/project governance by collaboration to understand and translate business challenges into value cases and ensuring a smooth the programs/projects delivery. Measure with metrics and well-adapted governance process.

+ Decision-Making: Make critical decisions related to the design, prioritization and implementation of the new technologies.

+ Inspiring Change: Leading impact management is a key aspect of this role.

+ Mentorship and Support: Providing guidance and support to the project team members is critical. This includes mentoring them, addressing their challenges, and fostering a inclusive and innovative work environment.

+ Metrics: Shape and maintain a comprehensive digital portfolio performance dashboard and implement processes for continuous tracking and optimization.

+ Financials: Contributing to the aCAR process and preparing financial exhibits with JJT and business financial partners. Supervise IT expenditures throughout project execution to ensure projects are completed on time and within budget. Track actual spending against committed and approved budgets for the portfolio under your responsibility. Additionally, maintain and update portfolio information in Nexus.

+ Stay informed about industry trends in data, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence and intelligent automation assessing new technologies as appropriate.

+ Mobilize teams and motivate and hold teams and key partners accountable to deliver.

Execution:

+ Business Requirements Management: Ensure customer engagement and documentation of detail requirements, drive alignment to strategy and ensure project goals per timeline and lifecycle are met

+ Seamless Project Execution: Responsible for the execution of the approved project portfolio. Establish appropriate program and project structures, initiate projects, and supervise their execution. Report project status updates to business and IMT ATSC governance bodies, identify and mitigate risks, and provide support to project teams.

+ Ensures Solution Design: Verifies that overall architecture and downstream systems integrate effectively with business requirements. This responsibility involves ensuring that all components of the system seamlessly together and that any integrations with Legend Biotech systems are properly managed and tested.

+ Supports Business Adoption: Acts as a conduit for business adoption of deployed initiatives. This includes promoting the benefits of the initiatives, addressing any resistance or challenges, encouraging business units are fully supported and engaged throughout the adoption process.

+ Conduct regular QBR’s and gather feedback to continuously enhance the product/platform's capabilities and user experience.

+ Develop an attitude of innovation through continuous learning, mentoring team members, and driving personal development initiatives

Qualifications:

+ A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required. Preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or related field.

+ Shown business partnership, experience and subject-matter expertise for consistent successful project delivery.

+ Proven experience in Project Management, Implementations, Integrations inclusive of requirements management and financial planning required.

+ Extensive experience with influencing without direct authority to manage complexity.

+ Excellent written and verbal communications (including to senior leadership and strong executive presentation skills required.

+ Proven ability to collaborate, handle pressure, working with integrity and respect required.

+ Excellent in problem solving and decision-making with ability to effectively identify priorities and assess trade-off decisions required.

+ High level of personal initiative, ability to function autonomously with self-confidence and reasoning capability is required.

+ Strong proponent of change – agile in response, advocating for improvements within and across the teams required.

+ Experience working with external partners to bring products/services required and to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment required

+ Self-starter, with strong demonstration of ownership and results required.

+ Experience leading teams to balance priorities.

+ Ability to develop, master and maintain sophisticated projects, with demonstrated experience as an authority is required.

+ Can translate complex topics into simple, workable solutions.

+ Strong problem-solving skills, accurately analyse situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment required.

+ Ability to empower and encourage people and make tough decisions, when necessary, in a timely manner.

Travel:

+ Travel required up to 10%.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Analytics Dashboards, Consulting, Customer Alignment, Data Analysis, Developing Others, Information Technology Strategies, Lateral Leadership, Organizing, Process Improvements, Product Portfolio Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Risk Assessments, Robotic Automation, Strategic Thinking, Technical Credibility, Training People

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$120,000 - $207,000

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis. Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year of Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Additional information can be found through the link below. http://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.