Manager, Technical Product Owner

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:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Manager, Technical Product Owner based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. In this pivotal role, you will operate at the intersection of business and technology, defining functional design by merging a comprehensive understanding of business objectives and challenges with innovative technology solutions. You will oversee the design, build, and operation of our integrated data and analytics solutions for financial, external, and operational data as the organization embarks on an ambitious transformational agenda for Medtech.

Key Responsibilities:

• Vision & Strategy Definition: Collaborate with leadership to formulate a forward-looking finance business vision, strategy, capabilities roadmaps, and corresponding technology and product roadmaps with substantial decision-making authority.
• Business Problem Definition: Understand and translate business challenges faced by the planning and forecasting finance functions into a value proposition and a holistic set of solutions encompassing process, technology, data, governance, and user experience, supported by clearly defined key performance indicators for value realization.
• External Insights: Analyze and understand external trends and insights related to planning, forecasting, finance processes, and technology to provide strategic foresight.
• Solution Design: Ensure that product development incorporates an experimental approach to validate expected impacts, leverages human-centered design, embraces agile principles, incorporates external insights, and engages in necessary end-to-end process optimizations and compliance.
• Value Realization: Define the anticipated value impact of investments in employee experience, functional excellence, efficiency, and compliance.
• Internal Partnerships: Partner with Business Process Owner teams and finance and technology staff across all stages of product development, from inception to value realization and continuous improvement, while effectively communicating progress towards strategic objectives.
• Product Management: Collaborate with product management teams to ensure that roadmaps are aligned with finance business strategies, technology strategies, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators.
• External Partnerships: Engage with vendor partners throughout product development, learning and applying best practices.

This role is designed to provide substantial developmental experience in producing insight-led strategies, crafting innovative technology solutions, promoting experimentation, agile methodologies, intellectual curiosity, empathy, team leadership, and human-centered design. A natural collaborator with a strong leadership presence and the ability to influence results and foster a sense of collective team engagement is essential.

Required Expertise:

• Comprehensive understanding of how Data, Master Data Management (MDM), Business Intelligence (BI), and visualization fit within an organization's enterprise data architecture.
• Proven experience with data sourcing, data modeling, data profiling, cataloging data definitions, and developing data-focused solutions.
• Knowledge of optimization and continuous accounting practices.
• Must be a quick learner with a clear bias for action and a sense of urgency.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple activities effectively.
• Familiarity with technical infrastructure and a global landscape is preferred.
• Proven ability to manage competing priorities and resolve conflicts.
• Skilled in enabling technology to drive business valu