Senior Manager, Data Excellence

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 jnj.com

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world.  We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual.  At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

End-to-End Planning

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Remote (US)

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Senior Manager, Data Excellence to join our team in Raritan, NJ. Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company.

About Surgery

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

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting.

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

Purpose:

The Senior Manager, Data Excellence is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving business data capabilities that enable high‑quality decision‑making across Surgery Supply Chain and Operations. This role serves as a strategic partner to business, digital, and transformation leaders to ensure data is accurate, trusted, standardized, and fit‑for‑purpose across end‑to‑end processes and platforms.

The role leads data excellence agendas across data governance, data quality, master data standards, analytics enablement, and transformation programs (e.g., ERP and advanced planning platforms). The Senior Manager plays a critical role in enabling scalable operating models, accelerating business outcomes, and embedding a culture of data accountability and continuous improvement.

Major Duties & Responsibilities:

Data Strategy & Governance

• Define and drive the enterprise data excellence strategy aligned with business priorities, digital roadmaps, and J&J standards.
• Establish and govern data ownership, stewardship, and decision rights across domains (e.g., master data, transactional data, analytical datasets).
• Lead adoption of common data standards, definitions, and policies to enable consistency and comparability across regions, franchises, and systems.

Data Quality, Controls & Compliance

• Own and drive data quality frameworks, metrics, and issue management processes to ensure reliable, audit‑ready, and compliant data.
• Partner with Quality, IT, and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with GxP, SOX, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
• Proactively identify systemic data risks and lead sustainable corrective and preventive actions.

Business Enablement & Analytics

• Enable business teams with trusted data and insights by partnering closely with analytics, planning, finance, and operations functions.
• Translate business needs into data and insight requirements, ensuring analytical outputs are actionable and decision‑relevant.
• Champion data literacy and self‑service analytics adoption across the organization.

Transformation & Digital Programs

• Serve as the data excellence lead for large‑scale transformation initiatives (e.g., ERP, S/4HANA, planning platforms, digital tools).<