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[Innovative Medicine] Strategic Program Manager, Strategy & Operations, Commercial Excellence

Johnson & Johnson
Japanfull_timeVerifiedPosted 8 Aug 2025

About the role

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:

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Job Description:

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/.

PMO, Strategy & Operations

Description

This is an important period to ensure successful delivery of our performance goals. As importantly, this is a great opportunity to pivot towards new generation commercial model with core capabilities needed for the future. The Strategic Program Manager plays a critical role in clarifying our strategies for the transformation and driving cross functional alignment and collaboration to deliver on that strategy successfully. 

Contribute to evolvement of J&J Innovative Medicine commercialization strategy

  • Develop a comprehensive view of strategic initiatives
  • Propose directions for commercial strategy evolvement and relevant initiatives
  • Drive alignment with key stakeholders on direction of strategy evolvement 

Lead successful execution of Commercial Excellence (CE) key initiatives across Business Units (BU)

  • Ensure clear definition of project goals, approaches and implementation plan
  • Ensure BU strategy/ situations are appropriately considered in CE projects
  • Work closely with CE business partners to ensure alignment of project goals/ approaches across BU
  • Implement strong project management to ensure successful delivery of the projects

Work with APAC teams to introduce new capabilities 

  • Closely work with APAC team to reflect Japan business situation and needs in new capability design
  • Lead execution of projects in Japan 

Contribute to CE and strategy and operation culture and way of working

  • Support management of key governance bodies to drive alignment and collaboration in CE and cross functionally
  • Drive CE culture and way of working towards defined vision

*Assignment of the responsibilities will be based on the scale/complexity/stakeholders/organization life cycle and other factors. The actual percentage of time spent on the major duties & responsibilities listed above will vary based on the assignment/rotation/project allocated at any given point in time.

Qualifications

【Required Capabilities & Skills】

  • Good understanding of Healthcare industry (Pharma projects at consulting firm or Pharma company experience is a plus) 
  • Strong consulting experience is a plus
  • Highly strategic and visionary
  • Ability to engage with wide range of senior stakeholders in Japan and across the region
  • Ability to think outside of the box to propose solutions to difficult problems.
  • Strong project management skill with focus on successful implementation
  • Fluent English and Business level of Japanese

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