Senior Director, Product & Portfolio Management

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:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Senior Director, Product & Portfolio Management (PPMG) — Surgery R&D

Location: Cincinnati or Raritan
 

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

Role summary

The Senior Director, Product & Portfolio Management is a strategic leader and member of the Surgery R&D leadership team. Working across a complex, cross-functional environment, this leader will guide portfolio decisions, manage risk, and lead a high-performing team (of portfolio and project managers) that helps accelerate the delivery of innovative products that address meaningful patient and customer needs. Reports to: Global Head R&D, Surgery.

Key responsibilities

• • Lead Surgery R&D portfolio governance in partnership with Platform Presidents and their functional leaders: Global Strategic Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Business Development, and other stakeholders.
  • Develop and refine portfolio tools, dashboards, and decision frameworks to enable transparent prioritization, trade-offs, and investment decisions.
  • Own program tracking, acceleration, risk identification, and mitigation for the Surgery R&D portfolio; ensure timely escalation and resolution of critical issues.
  • Chair Surgery technical derisking forums; prepare and present portfolio-level assessments and recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Provide independent assessment, counsel, and scenario analysis to leadership on portfolio balance, timing, resource allocation, and strategic risk.
  • Drive portfolio initiatives to improve R&D operational excellence, including process optimization, stage-gate rigor, gating criteria, and metrics.
  • Build cross-J&J technical and platform relationships to leverage capabilities and identify strategic alignment opportunities.
  • Define, refine, and report on operational metrics and KPIs; consolidate and distribute senior management reports that show progress against goals.
  • Establish and manage shared Goals & Objectives (G&O) across R&D to ensure alignment and measurable progress.
  • Lead, coach, and develop the PPMG team; foster a culture of accountability, empowerment, psychological safety, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
  • Drive accountability for decisions and execution; ensure rapid closure of actions and secure enterprise-level trade-off decisions across time, scope, and resources. Secure trade-off decisions to manage the triple constraint of time, scope, and resources.
  • Promote effective cross-functional collaboration across a matrix organization.
  • Drive adoption of new ways of working (Agile, digital, AI-enabled portfolio mgmt )