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. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Ethicon, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is currently recruiting for a Senior Manager PMO - Transcend Global for a duration based role with an anticipated end date on or around August 2028 to join the team!

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. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/

The Senior Manager PMO - Transcend Global serves as the end-to-end program management lead supporting the Transcend Director in driving execution excellence and governance discipline across the global Transcend program. This individual will oversee integrated planning, delivery tracking, and governance processes across multiple workstreams to ensure coordinated, transparent, and compliant execution of one of Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s most complex, multi-year transformations.

Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End PMO Leadership: Serve as the right hand to the Transcend Director, managing the full program lifecycle—from initiation through deployment—across multiple global regions and functions.
• PMO Governance: Establish, maintain, and continuously improve governance standards, cadence, and artifacts (e.g., steering materials, RAID management, KPIs, and dashboards) to ensure disciplined program execution.
• Integrated Planning & Execution: Develop and manage master schedules, interdependencies, and resource alignment across technical, functional, and business workstreams.
• Stakeholder Management: Partner closely with senior leaders, regional program leads, and workstream owners to facilitate informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and timely escalation.
• Performance Visibility: Drive reporting consistency and end-to-end visibility into financials, milestones, and health metrics through partnership with Finance, Digital, and Business stakeholders.
• Change & Transformation: Support alignment and adoption across stakeholder groups by ensuring clarity of scope, value, and business impact of key program decisions.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline governance, enhance data integrity, and improve efficiency of PMO operations.

Qualifications:

Education: A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent University degree is required; Advanced degree preferred

Required:

• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant professional work experience
• Experience managing large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs within a global or highly matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated experience standing up and leading PMO frameworks, governance models, and performance dashboards.
• Proven ability to operate at multiple organizational levels—comfortable engaging with executives and driving detail-level accountability.
• Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills; ability to manage ambiguity and drive structure in complex environments
• Experience managing both waterfall and agile development methodologies
• Project Management Professional certification
• Strong Microsoft Project experience

Preferred:

• Experience working with or within ERP or large-scale digital transformation programs

Other:

• May require up to 25% of domestic and/or international travel to other locations and sites

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Business Alignment, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$122,000 - $212,750/yr.

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are 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. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program. Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours  Additional information can be found through the link below.  https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits