IM, Transcend PMO Operations Director

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Manatí, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Position Summary:

The PMO Operations Director will lead PMO activities for Transcend—a global program driving standard ways of working and consolidating 7 ERP systems into 1 standardized S/4 HANA platform supporting the Innovative Medicine business. With a committed investment of $1.6B, there is a significant opportunity to drive a lasting transformational impact that enables significant efficiency, effectiveness, and experience gains for our innovative medicine business.

This role is accountable for how the program runs day-to-day including planning, governance, risk management, and decision support across functions, regions, and multiple parallel releases.

The role will work closely with Global Program Managers and senior stakeholders across business and technology to keep the program aligned, transparent, and on track.

The successful candidate is accountable for how the program runs day-to-day including planning, governance, risk management, and decision support across functions, regions, and multiple parallel releases.

They will work closely with Global Program Managers and senior stakeholders across business and technology to keep the program aligned, transparent, and on track.

Position Responsibilities:

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• Own end-to-end PMO operations, ensuring robust delivery governance across all program phases, including preparation and input to governance forums.

• Lead effective Integrated Project Plan, RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies) management, CCB (Change Control Board) processes, ensuring timely identification, escalation, mitigation, and resolution aligned with program goals.

• Oversee schedule management processes, ensuring accurate, reliable, and data-driven tracking against the integrated program plan with a clear path to green status.

• Manage scope governance processes, ensuring scope changes are controlled, documented, and aligned with program objectives and stakeholder expectations.

• Drive consistent and transparent status reporting across all governance levels, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and actionable insights for decision-making.

• Champion predictive delivery outlook processes to proactively identify potential delivery risks and opportunities, enabling early intervention and course correction.

• Ensure alignment of PMO operations with organization compliance and quality standards, embedding a strong risk culture focused on identification, mitigation, and follow-through on actions.

• Manage deliverables tracking and plan governance, including change control processes, to maintain program integrity and delivery confidence.

• Ensure effective documentation of meeting minutes, action items, and follow-up to drive accountability and progress.

Resource & Team Leadership:

• Provide leadership and oversight to a diverse PMO operations team, including Deployment Leads and the Offshore PM Operations Factory, ensuring alignment of activities and consistent delivery standards across global and offshore teams.

• Lead, mentor, and coach PMO operations team members, fostering a high-performance culture focused on collaboration, continuous learning, and professional development

• Collaborate closely with Global PMs and the Global PM Lead to ensure integrated program delivery, effective communication, and alignment of priorities across all PMO Ops team members.

• Foster strong working relationships across geographically dispersed teams to promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and continuous improvement in PMO operations

• Act as a key escalation point for PMO operational issues, coordinating resolution efforts with Global PMO leadership and other stakeholders.

Required:

Education

• A minimum of a Bachelors degree is required.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• 6-10 years managing global programs.

• Experience managing processes, ensuring accurate, reliable, and data-driven tracking against the integrated program plan with a clear path to green status.

• Experience managing Global Project Teams.

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, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Analytics Insights, Budget Management, Business Savvy, Developing Others, Give Feedback, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Performance Measurement, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Regulatory Compliance, Statement of Work (SOW)

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

150,000-265000

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

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 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  Additional information can be found through the link below.  https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits