Project Head (Complex Capital Systems)

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

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

R&D Project Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

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 MedTech surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our MedTech 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.

We are searching for the best talent for a Project Head (Complex Capital Systems). It is strongly preferred that this position be located in Santa Clara, CA. Consideration will be given to candidates located within proximity to our Cincinnati, OH site.

Job Description:
 

The Project Head will report into the Strategy & Program Leadership Head and be responsible for driving cross-functional collaboration, ensuring the pod acts as a team, ensuring delivery of all aspects of their subsystem, and raising issues to Platform leadership as necessary. The Project Head will be a technical leader having accountability for each subsystem and be responsible for all aspects of the execution of the Ottava program as guided by the Program Leadership Head.

This role requires strong collaboration skills and partnership with R&D, Global Strategic Marketing, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality and Finance.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Responsible for all executional aspects of the sub-systems of the Ottava Program.
• Accountable for program tracking, acceleration, and risk identification and mitigation for product development and delivery programs within the Ottava platform.
• Raises concerns to Program Leadership to ensure issues are being addressed and elevated to the right level.
• Owns input and operational expertise to aid Program Leadership for management reviews, including scenario development, trade-off implications and the evaluation/assessment of improvement opportunities.
• Operates as the cross functional leader of the program with strong expertise in all aspects of complex capital equipment development (including Development (R&D), Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory and Clinical).
• Partners with Program Leadership for Goals and Objectives (G&O’s) formation across the organization, ensuring alignment across to key platform initiatives, goals, strategies through shared G&O’s and reporting of progress against those across R&D.
• Works with Program Leadership & OTTAVA™ leadership team to develop leadership team charter, scope and meeting agendas and cadence. Ensures agenda driven membership, meetings and efficient/effective decision making. Ensures similarly consistent governance and standards are cascaded across subsystems.
• Monitors and tracks action items and plans to ensure rapid follow-through and progress against commitments.
• The role is accountable for securing trade-off decisions to help the team manage the triple constra