Senior Program Manager, GTO

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:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Project Engineering

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cornelia, Georgia, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Senior Program Manager,  Global Technical Operation to join our Ethicon team. This position can be located in Raritan, NJ / Cincinnati, OH / Athens, GA.

About MedTech

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Are you interested in joining a diverse and dynamic team that is helping improve patient care and drive innovation? Apply today.

Purpose:

The Senior Program Manager, Global Technical Operations serves as an expert within the technology community and leads program and/or portfolio initiatives for the organization. This role acts as the voice of supply chain during new product introduction for drug delivery devices. Applies analytics and reporting on an array of projects and creates data driven solutions for internal and external partners. Drives effective business decisions and communicates insights on organizational progress.

The role covers several aspects of Product management: NPI (new product introduction) and LCM (life cycle management)

Key Responsibilities:

The scope of the role for NPI

• Partnering with R&D, Quality, Commercial and Supply Chain teams to establish and implement the most effective strategy for the product manufacturing process

• Working closely with manufacturing site during process introduction and scale-up phases

• Step in as technical lead of strategic and NPI programs

Scope of Responsibilities:

• Build strong functional team, providing depth of knowledge and feedback and coaching to team members.

• Follow defined processes & procedures related to new product development and life cycle management to ensure compliance and meet business deliverables.

• Identify gaps in existing Processes' and drive improvement activities to close them.

• Define team's budget.

• Support programs/projects budget built.

• Lead Technical workstream in strategic and NPI programs.

• Establish foundation for knowledge transfer and repository.

The scope of role for LCM:

• Responsible for process excellence via efficient design, ensuring continuous improvement in process, cost, quality and production.

• In the scope of this role, the manager will be allocating resources for process/design change related projects and supporting site engineering resolution of process related issues and non-conformances.

• The manager will provide guidance to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility for LCM and NPI.

• Recruit, train and guide resources to improve total performance and productivity.

• Work with teams to ensure optimum levels of operability and maintainability.

• Establish process definitions for all the stages of project life cycle.

• Ensure that the project is performed with good quality and budget control. Evaluate process flows and provide recommendations. Optimize process systems for operational efficiency and cost savings. Plan organizational and technical strategies impacting budget, staffing, goals, and culture. Work with external teams to control manufacturing process of contract manufacturer plants, while managing base business and process changes.

Qualifications

Education: Minimum of Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent University degree required; focused de