Senior Manager, Transcend Pmo

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Raritan, NJ +2

This is a Senior Manager, PMO role at Johnson & Johnson, focused on program management and governance for a large-scale, multi-year transformation program. The role involves end-to-end program lifecycle management, establishing governance standards, integrated planning, stakeholder management, and driving reporting consistency. It requires experience managing large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs and PMO frameworks, with a mix of waterfall and agile methodologies. AI/ML is not the core focus of this role.

What you'd actually do

  1. End-to-End PMO Leadership: Serve as the right hand to the Transcend Director, managing the full program lifecycle—from initiation through deployment—across multiple global regions and functions.
  2. PMO Governance: Establish, maintain, and continuously improve governance standards, cadence, and artifacts (e.g., steering materials, RAID management, KPIs, and dashboards) to ensure disciplined program execution.
  3. Integrated Planning & Execution: Develop and manage master schedules, interdependencies, and resource alignment across technical, functional, and business workstreams.
  4. Stakeholder Management: Partner closely with senior leaders, regional program leads, and workstream owners to facilitate informed decision-making, risk mitigation, and timely escalation.
  5. Performance Visibility: Drive reporting consistency and end-to-end visibility into financials, milestones, and health metrics through partnership with Finance, Digital, and Business stakeholders.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum eight (8) years of relevant professional work experience
  • Experience managing large-scale, cross-functional transformation programs within a global or highly matrixed organization.
  • Demonstrated experience standing up and leading PMO frameworks, governance models, and performance dashboards.
  • Proven ability to operate at multiple organizational levels—comfortable engaging with executives and driving detail-level accountability.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills; ability to manage ambiguity and drive structure in complex environments
  • Experience managing both waterfall and agile development methodologies
  • Project Management Professional certification
  • Strong Microsoft Project experience

Nice to have

  • Experience working with or within ERP or large-scale digital transformation programs
  • Agile Decision Making
  • Agility Jumps
  • Analytics Insights
  • Business Alignment
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Leadership
  • Organizational Project Management
  • Organizing
  • Program Management
  • Project Management Methodology (PMM)
  • Project Management Office (PMO)