Director, Service Ops & Desk

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Raynham, MA +7

Director, Service Ops & Desk at Johnson & Johnson (DePuy Synthes) responsible for strategic direction, operational excellence, and continuous improvement of enterprise service operations and service desk capabilities. Ensures reliable, efficient, and customer-focused service delivery, partnering with IT, business, and external service providers. Drives service transformation, process optimization, and adoption of service management best practices, ensuring compliance with controls, security, quality, and regulatory requirements.

What you'd actually do

  1. Provide strategic leadership and oversight for global service operations and service desk functions, ensuring high availability, reliability, and customer satisfaction.
  2. Define and execute service management strategies, operating models, and governance aligned with business priorities and enterprise standards.
  3. Lead and develop high‑performing teams, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
  4. Establish and monitor service performance metrics, SLAs, and KPIs; drive corrective actions and performance improvements.
  5. Oversee incident, problem, request, and escalation management to ensure timely resolution and minimal business disruption.

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree Business, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field
  • 10-12 years of progressive experience in service operations, service management, or IT operations, with significant leadership responsibility
  • Proven experience leading global or enterprise‑scale service desk and operations organizations using ServiceNow (Incident, Request, Problem, Change, CMDB, SLAs, reporting), driving standardization, automation, and continual service improvement globally
  • Established and governed enterprise observability capabilities (endpoint, network, application, and experience telemetry) to move from reactive support to predictive issue detection and proactive remediation
  • Strong knowledge of service management frameworks, operational governance, and performance management
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex stakeholder relationships and vendor partnerships
  • Experience driving operational excellence, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives
  • Strong leadership, communication, and change management skills

Nice to have

  • Master’s degree or MBA
  • Experience

What the JD emphasized

  • global service operations
  • service desk capabilities
  • enterprise service operations
  • service desk functions
  • global or enterprise‑scale service desk and operations organizations
  • ServiceNow
  • standardization
  • automation
  • continual service improvement globally
  • enterprise observability capabilities
  • predictive issue detection
  • proactive remediation
  • operational governance
  • performance management
  • complex stakeholder relationships
  • vendor partnerships
  • operational excellence
  • continuous improvement initiatives
  • regulatory requirements