Senior Manager, Strategic Projects – Portfolio

Johnson & Johnson

. Serve as a strategic partner to the Americas leadership team .

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeRaritan • New Jersey • United StatesSenior💰 $122,000 - $212,750 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in leading complex cross-functional initiatives, driving strategic alignment, and enhancing customer experience through effective project management and organizational transformation. Proficient in stakeholder engagement, data analysis, and executive communication to support decision-making and operational excellence.

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Project ManagementCross-Functional LeadershipBusiness AcumenOrganizational TransformationStakeholder Engagement

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Hard Skills

Project ManagementProgram ManagementData AnalysisBudget TrackingKPI MonitoringScenario PlanningRisk ManagementProcess HarmonizationDigital TransformationContinuous Improvement

Soft Skills

FacilitationWritten CommunicationDecision-MakingJudgmentInfluencing Without Authority

Tools & Technologies

Microsoft PowerPointMicrosoft ExcelMicrosoft TeamsProject Management ToolsCollaboration Tools

Certifications & Qualifications

Project Management Certification

Industry Keywords

Supply ChainBusiness OperationsCustomer SolutionsOrganizational ChangeStrategic Initiatives

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Serve as a strategic partner to the Americas leadership team
Lead critical cross-functional programs advancing customer experience, operational excellence, process harmonization, digital transformation, and business performance
Translate strategy into an integrated operating agenda, priorities, goals, and execution plans
Drive leadership operating rhythm, including agenda planning, business reviews, decision forums, priority tracking, and follow-through
Prepare executive briefings, presentations, talking points, and decision materials
Connect work across countries and functions and ensure alignment among regional and global stakeholders
Provide decision support through option analysis, scenario planning, data synthesis, and structured recommendations
Anticipate issues, facilitate escalation, and maintain focus on high-value priorities
Support organizational effectiveness, change adoption, talent priorities, employee engagement, and leadership communications
Maintain an integrated portfolio of strategic initiatives, roadmaps, sequencing, and dependencies
Establish project intake, evaluation, prioritization, approval, continuation, and closure processes
Lead complex cross-functional initiatives from charter and scope definition through implementation, value realization, and closeout
Drive accountability for delivery within agreed scope and spend
Monitor portfolio health and recommend acceleration, pausing, re-scoping, combining, or stopping initiatives
Maintain dashboards, roadmaps, action logs, risk registers, decision logs, and executive updates
Identify risks, issues, and dependencies and develop mitigation plans
Track budgets, actuals, resources, benefits, and KPIs
Ensure consistent use of project standards, frameworks, methodologies, tools, and templates
Analyze performance and business insights to identify simplification, productivity, customer experience, and continuous-improvement opportunities
Build relationships across Americas countries, functions, and global teams while influencing without direct authority
Facilitate leadership meetings, working sessions, workshops, and stakeholder forums
Develop communications, presentations, and change plans for executive, functional, and employee audiences
Coordinate stakeholder engagement and change-readiness activities to support adoption and sustained results

Requirements

What you’ll need

Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent University degree required
Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional work experience
Experience in project or program management, supply chain, customer solutions, business operations, strategy, or organizational transformation
Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing without direct authority in a matrixed organization
Strong business acumen connecting strategy, operations, customer priorities, resources, and financial implications
Exceptional organizational, facilitation, written communication, and executive presentation skills
Ability to exercise sound judgment, act decisively with incomplete information, and drive accountability across organizational levels
Track record of managing multiple priorities, navigating ambiguity, and maintaining attention to strategic outcomes and execution details
Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and other project, portfolio, collaboration, and reporting tools
Presence three days per week at the designated home-office location required
Up to 10% domestic and/or international travel may be required
Preferred: focused degree in Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, Operations, or related field
Preferred: experience supporting a senior leadership team or serving in a Chief of Staff, strategy, business operations, transformation, or portfolio-management capacity
Preferred: understanding of end-to-end supply chain and customer-facing operational interdependencies
Preferred: experience across the United States, Canada, and Latin America or within a global, multi-country environment
Preferred: project-management certification or demonstrated mastery of established project-management methodologies
Preferred: financial acumen and experience tracking business cases, budgets, benefits, and value realization
Preferred: experience leading organizational change, communications, and adoption activities

Benefits

Comp & perks

Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
Savings plan (401(k))
Long-term incentive program
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 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
Eligible for severance
Hybrid work arrangement
Up to 10% domestic and/or international travel