About the Role
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.
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 support 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.
Maintain 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 customers 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 stories, 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 toward 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.
Experience And Skills – 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.
Locations
This role is available across multiple locations: Cork, Ireland; Leeds, UK; Palm Beach Gardens, Florida; Raritan, New Jersey; Raynham, Massachusetts; Ringaskiddy, Cork; Warsaw, Indiana; West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Pay Transparency
The anticipated base pay range for this position is: $102,000.00 - $177,100.00
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long‑term incentive program.
Benefits
Vacation – 120 hours per calendar year.
Sick time – 40 hours per calendar year (48 hours for Colorado residents, 56 hours for Washington residents).
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.
Bereavement leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member; 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year.
Caregiver leave – 80 hours in a 52‑week rolling period.
Volunteer leave – 32 hours per calendar year.
Military spouse time‑off – 80 hours per calendar year.
Equal Opportunity Employer Statement
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 & JN is committed to the interview process being inclusive of applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers; internal employees may contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
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