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**Job Function: **
Technology Product & Platform Management
**Job Sub Function: **
Technical Product Management
Job Category:
Scientific/Technology
All Job Posting Locations:
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland, Zuchwil, Switzerland
Job Description:
Medical Device Business Services a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies is currently seeking a Product Manager to join our team.
Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):
USA - R-080635
Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.
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 https://www.jnj.com/
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopedics business to establish a standalone orthopedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.
Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.
About the Team
Join our dynamic and forward-thinking AI & Digital Team—a passionate, hardworking crew dedicated to transforming our supply chain with innovative, scalable AI and digital solutions.
How We are Revolutionizing the Orthopaedics Supply Chain!
Strong organizational engagement and cross-functional collaboration fuel our drive to push boundaries and deliver breakthrough results. Together with our business partners, we are implementing innovative digital solutions that will help us adapt to a dynamic environment where patients and surgeons are expecting increasingly personalized care. These solutions will drive real-time, data-driven decisions – enabling us to sense and seize growth, anticipate and mitigate disruptions, and streamline processes as we navigate increasing complexity.
What's in it for you?
As a Product Manager, you’ll lead cross-functional teams to develop innovative AI & Digital solutions to ensure seamless delivery of Orthopaedics products to our patients —Keeping People Moving! You will be accountable for developing and driving the strategy for a product portfolio, setting key performance metrics, and ensuring that outcomes meet business and quality standards in a fast-paced, impactful environment. If you’re looking to be part of a team that’s making a difference and shaping the future of healthcare, this is the place for you!
You will report to the Director of Digital Strategy & Deployment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with senior stakeholders to create the vision and articulate the short and long-term product strategy and life cycle plan for your product portfolio- ensuring alignment and managing interdependencies with a broader digital applications strategic roadmap.
- Develop business cases and financial plans for portfolios for which you are accountable
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop and execute solutions that meet the defined scope on time and at cost, ensuring projects meet business and quality standards
- Drive life cycle decisions by evaluating trade-offs that balance customer experience, strategic value, cost, and timelines. Execute life cycle plans following established standards and supporting change management with key business partners
- Establish key performance metrics across all platforms and collaborate with cross-functional partners to define and measure value capture
- Accountability for maintaining the integrity of the product portfolio database/tool, ensuring all project information (status, financials, resourcing) is current and accurate for monthly and quarterly reporting
- Effectively manage communication of product execution timelines and performance with customer and other key stakeholders
- Partner with customers to develop and support execution for change management plans, ensuring successful product adoption
- Support recruiting, development, and training for the product team - including support for writing effective user stores, managing the product backlog and making trade-off decisions
- Support the Scrum Master in proactively identifying and helping to resolve project issues, manage risks to project delivery, and ensure projects are completed on time and within budget.
Qualifications
**Education: **Minimum Bachelor's degree and/or equivalent University degree required; focused degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields preferred. Advanced degree preferred.
Experience and Skills:
**Required: **
- Minimum six (6) years of relevant professional work experience
- Work experience in supply chain or software development, with significant leadership experience delivering successful and innovative digital and/or software products
- Demonstrable experience working in Agile environments and applying Scrum principles to deliver successful outcomes
- Extensive experience in setting and delivering a strategy with full accountability for execution outcomes.
- Customer Obsession and strong facilitation skills, with a passion for distilling complex business use cases into elegant solutions that delight users
- A bias towards action with strong decision-making capabilities
- Proven ability to influence without direct authority and communicate clearly across functions - including proficiency in identifying and resolving conflicts constructively
- Ability to build out financial plans and formal business cases. Strong financial acumen with direct experience managing budgets, timelines, and resources
- Ability to thrive in an ambiguous environment with changing priorities
Preferred:
- Familiarity with E2E supply chain domains such as Planning , Manufacturing, Procurement, and Distribution within a MedTech or similar industry
- Familiarity with tools like Jira and Confluence
- Experience with systems thinking, analytics and experiment design and a solid understanding of software development processes and concepts.
- UX/UI design experience or familiarity partnering with UX/UI designers
- Familiarity with design tools such as Figma and Adobe XD
- Experience managing technology vendors
- Previous software development experience
- Familiarity with AI concepts
- Agile/Agile Scrum professional certifications
Other:
- May require up to 20% domestic and/or international travel to other sites and locations
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.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Give Feedback, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Organizing, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Improvements, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing
The anticipated pay range and benefits for this position is:
Ireland – EUR70,100 - EUR140,300
United Kingdom – EUR56,400 - EUR112,800