Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine · 1 day ago
SR Manager, RTE/Program Management
Titusville, NJ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$122K/yr - $208K/yr
8+ years expJohnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is a leader in healthcare innovation, focused on developing smarter and less invasive treatments. The IT Senior Manager, Development Systems, RTE/Program Management, will lead program and portfolio management initiatives, ensuring the successful delivery of complex IT projects while collaborating with various stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.
Pharmaceuticals
Responsibilities
Program Management of overall IT portfolio within a Development Systems domain ($20+ Million, complex, multi-year, enterprise-wide programs). Collaborate with Platform Leaders and Product Group Owners to manage release priorities, execution of capabilities, and product roadmaps. Ensure the successful delivery of releases/capabilities to their final program objectives
Work with IT Platform Leaders, Product Owners, Tech Leads, and other stakeholders to communicate objectives, risks, dependencies, and ensure alignment. Partner with key stakeholders to facilitate the creation and optimization of domain strategy and technology roadmaps
Manage domain budget of $20+ Million. Monitor committed spend, actuals reconciliation, variance reporting, and facilitate budget reviews and close activities in partnership with Finance. Provide oversight of investment planning schedules, deadlines, and ensure cross-partner engagement and contribution
Leadership and facilitation of cross-domain governance councils and communities of practice (e.g., GMS Technology Governance Council, IM R&D HPT Community of Practice)
Monitor the progress of release/program components to ensure overall goals, schedule, budget, and benefits of the program are achieved. Perform overall risk assessments, develop contingency plans, and recommend mitigations as needed. Manage relevant team communications, governance, and engagement forums. Own program updates to executive leadership
Ensure implementation of governance processes: RAID logs, demand management, value realization, resource planning/allocation, metrics, monitoring, and reporting. Lead review meetings with key stakeholders and hold sufficient reviews to create appropriate exposure and engagement. Lead Executive Management status reviews
Coordinate contract/vendor management with Procurement and domain stakeholders. Experience with procurement processes including contract types, multiple vendor engagements, and PO/invoice management is required
Encourage collaboration across teams, systems, solution architects, and UX designers. Aggregate team objectives into program objectives and publish them for visibility and transparency. Help manage risks and dependencies. Drive continuous improvement
Identify process improvement opportunities including project team engagement, project delivery, reporting, and communications
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree required
8 years of IT experience is required
Minimum 8 years of program management is required with experience in standards and best practices design
Experience with Procurement processes, including contract types, multiple vendor engagements, and PO/invoice management is required
Experience with financial management including knowledge of enterprise financial cycles, annual business planning, business case submission, infrastructure cost optimization or rationalization is required
Experience with IT SDLC/Agile is required
Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate and present across all management, functional domains, and organizational levels
Strong decision-making/problem solving skills required
Ability to work in a highly matrix environment
Skilled in building relationships and navigating through organizations
Able to build a sense of trust and rapport that creates a comfortable and effective workplace
Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical skills, with the ability to influence and coach team members of all roles on a Scrum team
Proven experience of managing a team (people management)
Ability to build relationships with and influence a very broad set of global and cross-functional stakeholders and indirect reports
Partners with Product Group Leaders to anticipate and communicate the need for change and innovation in an empathetic and influential manner to ensure that the business & IT partners respond to demands in an agile, positive, proactive way
Demonstrated ability to rapidly learn, evaluate, and adopt new AI tools and platforms to meet evolving project needs
Understanding AI concepts and frameworks, including agentic AI, with the ability to translate technical capabilities into product strategies
Ability to collaborate with data science and engineering teams to define AI requirements, evaluate feasibility, and prioritize AI-enabled functionality
Preferred
Advanced Degree (MS, MBA) is a plus/preferred
Knowledge of Agile Methodology and Scrum Master certification or PMP certification preferred
Familiarity with Release Train Engineer roles (ART product vision and experience) is a plus
Knowledge about various Release Methodologies, Product Management, Portfolio Management, and/or expertise in software delivery, program management, and stakeholder management is a plus
Pharma experience is preferred
A comprehensive understanding of R&D domain (e.g. Regulatory Affairs, Global Development, Global Medical Safety) processes, applications and solutions is a plus
Strong broad-based IT background, both hands-on and management is preferred
Experience creating process mapping and/or process re-engineering is preferred
Possess knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies
Experience in analytics and the ability to create dashboards for presentation of data is preferred
Experience with domain-specific technical product tools (e.g., Regulatory tools, Pharmacovigilance tools, automated testing tools, application development tools, SharePoint Portal development, collaboration tools, reporting tools such as Power BI or Tableau, Amazon BYOD Virtual workplaces) is a plus
Experience synthesizing stakeholder inputs into product decisions is required
Experience integrating AI-driven features into digital products or platforms, ensuring alignment with customer needs and organizational goals
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability
Business accident insurance
Group legal insurance
Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
Savings plan (401(k))
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 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
Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
Caregiver Leave – 10 days
Volunteer Leave – 4 days
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
Company
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine focuses on developing medical solutions for some of the challenging diseases and medical conditions.
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Molly Perkins
VP, Head of Cell & Genetic Medicines Discovery
Recent News
2025-08-14
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