Job Function: Project/Program Management Group
Job Sub Function: Project/Program Management
Job Category:Professional
All Job Posting Locations:Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, La Jolla, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:Position SummaryThe Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations, Data, Data Science and AI (DDSAI) serves as a strategic partner to DDSAI and R&D leadership, enabling data-driven decision-making across the Technology, Data, and AI portfolio.
This role uniquely combines portfolio management leadership with hands-on technical execution. The individual owns portfolio governance, strategic planning, resource management, executive reporting, and portfolio analytics - while also maintaining the technical capability to process data, automate workflows, build dashboards, and generate automated management reporting. It is an ideal role for a hands-on technical contributor seeking greater business-facing and leadership exposure.
The successful candidate blends portfolio management discipline, business operations judgment, and technical automation skills to improve visibility, governance, execution, and business value realization across the portfolio. This role acts as the bridge between leadership decision-making and operational portfolio intelligence. It enables better decisions and stronger governance without replacing leadership accountability for prioritization and investment decisions, or project teams' accountability for day-to-day execution.
Portfolio Strategy & Governance- 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.
Portfolio Intelligence & Decision Support- 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.
Data Management & Technical Reporting- 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.
Automation & Digital Solutions- 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.
Executive Reporting & Communications- 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.
Project Enablement (Secondary)- 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.
Continuous Improvement- 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.
Required Skills:Preferred Skills: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), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :$122,000.00 - $212,750.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
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.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation -120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado -48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington -56 hours per calendar year
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 period10 days
Volunteer Leave - 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off - 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
