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Director, Global Data

Johnson & Johnson
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 3 Jun 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:

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function:

Data Governance & Policy

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Medical Devices Companies a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies is recruiting for a Global Data Director. This position will be in New Brunswick, NJ or Pinewood, UK.

This position is for a two-year duration role, with a projected end date of July 2027.

A preselected candidate has been identified, but additional candidates will also be considered.

The Director, Global Data Business Process and Design will be a part of the MedTech Digital Data Strategy and Operations Leadership Team and will be closely linked into the MedTech Business Transformation PMO, a multi-year global business transformation initiative that will modernize our end-to-end digital capabilities by harmonizing our disparate ecosystem of 40+ major global MedTech ERP systems.  This role is responsible for defining the global end-to-end business data creation and maintenance strategy while working with each Data deployment leader on implementation across global MedTech.  

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/ (https://www.jnj.com/

Key Role Responsibilities

  • Define the global end-to-end Master Data Governance (MDG) strategy while partnering with each deployment lead and run-state operations on implementation and continuous improvement.
  • Establish Master Data Governance KPIs, quality controls, and escalation frameworks to maintain high-quality master data across domains (Material, Customer, Vendor, Finance, etc.) while adhering to data standards and meta data alignment.
  • Establish protocols to identify and drive continuous improvements in the E2E master data maintenance process, automation, integrations, and data lineage tracking.
  • Strong partnership within MedTech SC, Finance, PLM, Commercial, R&D, Enterprise SC Data Governance leads to ensure alignment of strategies, R&R and decision-making process.
  • Drive multi-functional Master Data Governance engagement with functional, regional, and global collaborators to establish sustainable data ownership models.
  • Partner with supply chain business process owners, and deployment leads to embed MDG capabilities into end-to-end operations.
  • Responsible for translating business/functional into data requirements to enable business processes across the supply chain.
  • Ensure ongoing updates and alignment to the global template.
  • Manage cross-program process design interdependencies for respective areas of responsibility, by collaborating with respective collaborators to implement controls, cadence, and risk mitigations.
  • Ensure quality delivery of team deliverables on time and within budget.
  • Influence senior leadership and guide organizational change to embed data stewardship culture across business functions.
  • Partner with the business adoption team to ensure organisational change, business readiness, site readiness, and training are delivered to meet business needs.

Qualifications

Required Skills

  • Minimum of Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Requires a minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in leadership roles within Operations, Supply Chain, or large transformation programs.
  • Requires a minimum of 5 years of Master Data business experience and data life-cycle management in Supply Chain across

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