Portfolio Partner, Career Milestones

The Portfolio Partner supports the day-to-day management and execution of an assigned learning portfolio, working closely with the Portfolio Lead to help maintain portfolio quality, consistency, and operational effectiveness. The role helps coordinate portfolio activities, organize content and information, and ensure learning offerings are accurately represented and maintained within agreed portfolio standards. 

With knowledge of the portfolio area and a strong execution focus, the Portfolio Partner helps translate portfolio direction into coordinated actions, supports portfolio upkeep and governance processes, and contributes to the overall organization, discoverability, and continuous improvement of the portfolio. This role serves as an important operational partner to the Portfolio Lead, helping ensure the portfolio remains current, usable, and aligned to learner and business needs.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and support portfolio strategy for an individual portfolio, identifying gaps, overlaps, and retirement opportunities and providing performance insights and recommendations. 

• Bring deep SME leadership; interpret business developments and turn them into portfolio implications; facilitate learning interventions in respective SME topic.

• Maintain rigorous oversight of portfolio content integrity and quality standards, ensuring all learning offerings meet the compliance, accuracy, and documentation requirements of a highly regulated life sciences environment.

• Maintain portfolio metadata and tagging integrity to support accurate mapping, searchability, reporting, and day-to-day data quality. 

• Escalate portfolio-level risks, quality concerns, or issues that require resolution, cross-portfolio coordination, or leadership attention beyond established portfolio processes 

• Represent the portfolio in working sessions, governance discussions, and cross-functional planning forums as needed to support alignment, decisions, and follow-through on actions 

• Support time-sensitive business and leadership requests, including urgent updates, launch support, rapid response efforts, and post-implementation reviews within the portfolio 

• Contribute to continuous improvement of portfolio management practices by providing input on standards, templates, governance processes, taxonomy application, and ways of working 

• Support team effectiveness through knowledge sharing, onboarding, and peer collaboration, helping promote consistency and operational continuity across portfolios 

Core Competencies / Personal Attributes

• Portfolio Management & Execution: Effectively manages portfolio performance, risks, dependencies, gaps, overlaps, and lifecycle actions

• Prioritization & Judgment: Evaluates demand, value, and constraints to make informed recommendations on enhancements, sequencing, and retirements

• Stakeholder Relationship Management: Builds and maintains strong relationships across business stakeholders, SMEs, and cross-functional partners

• Communication & Influence: Clearly communicates portfolio priorities, changes, and recommendations to drive alignment and action

• Collaboration & Coordination: Works effectively across portfolios and partner teams to address dependencies and reduce friction

• Strategy Translation: Converts category direction into actionable portfolio plans, curriculum updates, and governance activities

• Business & Domain Expertise: Applies strong subject-matter knowledge to evolving business needs and learning priorities

• Curriculum & Pathway Management: Maintains sound judgment on curriculum structure, progression, and learning pathways

• Governance & Metadata Management: Ensures adherence to governance, taxonomy, and quality standards for optimal reporting and usability

• Planning & Coordination: Manages day-to-day portfolio activities, timelines, inputs, and partner coordination

Professional Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Life Sciences, or a related field (BA/BS or equivalent)

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience with a demonstrated track record in pharmaceutical sales, marketing, or a related field

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 & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation,  external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers and internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.