[Hiring] Senior Manager, MedTech Technology Product Lifecycle Management Platform @Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Role Description

We are searching for the best talent for a Sr. Manager, MedTech Technology Product Lifecycle Management Platform professional to be located in Raritan, NJ.

The individual in this role owns the vision, strategy, and prioritization of the PLM platform level features to meet business and technical needs. Enable platform and product squads by driving technical delivery and value realization for MedTech Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) globally.

This role will work with business owners, product management, portfolio partners, architecture, and suppliers in PLM and digitally connected domains to align the direction and solution intent while managing a multi-million-dollar budget.

This individual will deeply understand user needs and expected business value, delivering solutions that unlock efficiency and drive progress against critical metrics to improve MedTech R&D, specifically in the domain of R&D PLM.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Visionary leader primarily responsible for platform/product strategy and ensure business value realization and outcomes.
• Own end-to-end platform lifecycle activities including technical leadership driving the vision, strategy, prioritization, delivery, performance management for the platform, including Production Operations processes and services.
• Enable AI-driven and data-centric lifecycle processes across the ecosystem.
• Ensure scalability, reliability, and standardization and reduce fragmentation across OpCos / legacy systems.
• Cross-Functional alignment (product, Architecture, portfolio) and collaborate with Product Owners and Product/Platform Architects to build a technical backlog that optimizes business value in partnership with supporting teams.
• Work in close partnership with the Platform Architect and technology counterparts to manage cross-team dependencies in roadmaps and backlog.
• Strong vendor management and partnership with our suppliers and act as the expert in the field understanding latest tech trends in the space of PLM.
• Drive the interaction model between the product & platform teams for short-, medium- and long-term business and technical needs.
• Ensure the PLM platform fits into the broader Enterprise Architecture guidelines and standards.
• Drive selection of platform solutions, e.g., CloudX strategy, including build vs. buy decision.
• Manage effort to build financial budgets and resource plans based on solution objectives, key deliverables and timing.
• Accountable for PLM System Change Control, Risk Management Processes and related IT Procedures across the platform and products.
• Drive continuous improvement across the platform and products through automation, insights & metrics, best practices.
• Engage in an Office Operations role to process onboarding and off-boarding of stable team resources.
• Manages a team of individual contributors and/or Supervisors and is accountable for conducting effective performance management.
• Responsible for on-call on and off business hour rotations, lead incident triage and restoration, and drive root-cause analysis with corrective and preventive actions.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, preferably in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business, Engineering or related field highly preferred.
• 10+ years performing progressively advanced duties as specified below.

Skills

• Expert in applicable domain/products and in the tech stack used within the J&J PLM domain, principally with PTC Windchill and ThingWorx.
• Expert in Product Development and Manufacturing business processes including the application of software solutions to solve business problems and accelerate new product introduction.
• Demonstrable experience leading teams of employees and/or contractors, including goal setting and career development.
• Demonstrable experience leading multiple global efforts with time & cost related constraints in a fast-paced regulated environment.
• Experienced in software product development lifecycle, leading a product backlog, managing release plans, removing blockers and leading teams operating in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).
• Strong facilitation, collaboration & influencing skills; ability to form relationships, empower and collaborate at all levels in the organization.
• Proven track record to tackle problems head on and think creatively about technology solutions.
• Strong commitment to continuous process improvement.
• Experience in vendor management, and creating technology product vision and strategies.
• Experience in building and integrating products with platform, data management, API architecture/design, and Cloud Native technologies.
• Experience engineering products over their lifecycle in a multi-team / channel context.
• Demonstrates AI Fluency to improve productivity and decision quality while maintaining human accountability.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
• Consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
• Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year.
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – 56 hours per calendar year.
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – 13 days per calendar year.
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year.
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child.
• Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member; 5 days for an extended family member.
• Caregiver Leave – 10 days.
• Volunteer Leave – 4 days.
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours.