Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations (DDSAI)

Support portfolio governance processes across DDSAI and R&D for technology data and AI initiatives, facilitating portfolio reviews, governance boards, and leadership forums (preparing materials, synthesizing insights, and documenting decisions and follow-ups).

Maintain portfolio prioritization frameworks and support prioritization, capacity, and resource-allocation discussions by consolidating project data, surfacing tradeoffs, and highlighting constraints.

Identify portfolio risks, dependencies, capacity constraints, and strategic tradeoffs across initiatives.

Support annual business planning, investment planning, and long-range financial planning, and develop portfolio recommendations for senior leadership.

Develop portfolio dashboards, executive scorecards, and KPIs, including value-realization metrics.

Monitor delivery performance, milestones, financials, resource utilization, and business outcomes.

Produce insights that inform prioritization and investment decisions, translating complex technical and project information into concise executive-level recommendations.

Extract, transform, and analyze portfolio data from multiple enterprise systems (project, finance, staffing, operational)

Automate reporting using both deterministic and probabilistic systems

Design portfolio data models and reusable reporting frameworks that support executive reporting and reduce manual effort.

Establish data quality validation, controls, and master data / metadata standards.

Design and implement automated reporting solutions using enterprise-approved AI and non-AI tools.

Build workflows that automate collection, aggregation, validation, and distribution of portfolio information.

Identify and eliminate manual reporting activities through scalable automation.

Develop executive-ready dashboards, presentations, scorecards, portfolio review decks, business planning reports, and resource and financial summaries.

Prepare materials for leadership team reviews, technology governance forums, R&D leadership reviews, and business planning and strategic portfolio cycles.

Communicate portfolio performance, health, risks, and recommendations clearly, framing decisions and clarifying tradeoffs for stakeholders with competing priorities.

Partner with project leads and project managers to strengthen planning, governance, risk/issue management, and reporting consistency across key initiatives.

Reinforce standardized methodologies, tools, and templates, and provide coaching and best-practice support.

Ensure project information is accurate and timely to support transparent portfolio reporting.

Standardize portfolio management processes and reporting templates.

Improve reporting accuracy, timeliness, and scalability.

Champion data-driven portfolio management practices across the organization.

Required: Advanced Excel, Power BI, SQL / R (or related), portfolio analytics, data modeling, data quality management, dashboard development, portfolio reporting automation.

Preferred: Python, Power Automate, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Platform, Databricks, Jira, Wrike, Power Apps, GenAI-enabled reporting solutions.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.

8+ years of experience in portfolio, program, or project management, strategy & operations, business operations, or data analytics.

Demonstrated experience supporting leadership decision-making through analytics and reporting, including executive dashboards and automated reporting solutions.

Experience in technology, digital, data, AI, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or R&D environments.

Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and executive leadership, and to influence without authority in a matrixed organization.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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