Manager, Technical Product Owner

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

Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Mumbai, India

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Manager, Technical Product Owner based in ASPAC Region. In this pivotal role, you will operate at the intersection of business and technology, defining functional build by merging a comprehensive understanding of business objectives and challenges with innovative technology solutions. You will coordinate the invent, build, and operation of our coordinated data and analytics solutions for financial, external, and operational data as the organization embarks on an ambitious ground-breaking agenda for Medtech.

Key Responsibilities:

• Vision & Strategy Definition: Collaborate with leadership to formulate a forward-looking finance business vision, strategy, capabilities roadmaps, and corresponding technology and product roadmaps with substantial decision-making authority.
• Business Problem Definition: Understand and translate business challenges faced by the planning and forecasting finance functions into a value proposition and an integrated set of solutions encompassing process, technology, data, governance, and user experience, supported by clearly defined key performance indicators for value realization.
• External Insights: Analyze and understand external trends and insights related to planning, forecasting, finance processes, and technology to provide strategic foresight.
• Solution Design: Ensure that product development incorporates an experimental approach to validate expected impacts, leverages human-centered design, embraces agile principles, incorporates external insights, and engages in vital end-to-end process optimizations and compliance.
• Value Realization: Define the anticipated value impact of investments in employee experience, functional excellence, efficiency, and compliance.
• Internal Partnerships: Partner with Business Process Owner teams and finance and technology staff across all stages of product development, from inception to value realization and continuous improvement, while effectively communicating progress towards strategic objectives.
• Product Management: Collaborate with product management teams to ensure that roadmaps are aligned with finance business strategies, technology strategies, value creation objectives, and measurable key performance indicators.
• External Partnerships: Engage with vendor partners throughout product development, learning and applying best practices.

This role is designed to provide substantial developmental experience in producing insight-led strategies, crafting innovative technology solutions, promoting experimentation, agile methodologies, intellectual curiosity, empathy, team leadership, and human-centered design. A natural collaborator with a strong leadership presence and the ability to influence results and foster a sense of collective team engagement is essential.

Required Expertise:

• Comprehensive understanding of how Data, Master Data Management (MDM), Business Intelligence (BI), and visualization fit within an organization's enterprise data architecture.
• Demonstrable experience with data sourcing, data modeling, data profiling, cataloging data definitions, and developing data-focused solutions.
• Knowledge of optimization and continuous accounting practices.
• Must be a quick learner with a clear bias for action and a sense of urgency.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple activities effectively.
• Familiarity with technical infrastructure and a global landscape is preferred.
• Demonstrable ability to manage competing priorities and resolve conflicts.
• Skilled in enabling technology to drive business value and achieve program objectives.
• Thought leadership in technology strategy, value, roadmap development, and product solutioning.

Reporting Structure:

You will partner closely with P&F, FS&T, CFIN, DDGR, Master Data and the broader technology organization to enhance the transformational potential of technology investments.

Qualifications & Working Conditions:

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• 10+ years of in-depth experience in Data Modeling, including significant experience with SAP S/4HANA.
• Proven track record in large-scale ERP implementations, ideally with SAP S/4HANA.
• 2+ years of experience with SAP PAPM.
• 10+ years of experience in implementing and maintaining Data Management and Reporting solutions.
• 5+ years of people management experience.
• Experience in fostering methodologies and cultures that promote high-performing teams.
• Proficiency with JIRA and SDLC.
• Knowledge of Supply Chain or Finance processes is required.

If you are ready to demonstrate your skills in a dynamic environment that values innovation and collaboration, we encourage you to apply for the Manager, Technical Product Owner position at Johnson & Johnson.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Consulting, Cost Management, Developing Others, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, People Performance Management, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Resource Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Team Management