Technical Delivery Senior Manager

at  Johnson Johnson

Description
The Technical Delivery Senior Manager is responsible for strategically leading innovation and technical projects from start to completion with a deep understanding of our business, our consumers and technical project requirements. This leader will work with our end-to-end R&D team to identify the critical R&D deliverables and risks associated with the project and escalate issues to remove barriers as needed. This individual will work closely and partner with cross-functional teams, including R&D, marketing, manufacturing, and quality, to successfully deliver our innovation. This role is for a leader looking to make an impact while working in a highly collaborative, fast-paced team environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead R&D teams through the delivery of complex projects to support our business objectives and priorities
• Drive a culture of agility, discipline, and consumer centricity throughout the innovation process for the R&D team
• Strategically coordinate and communicate with cross-functional technical teams to ensure alignment and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle
• Partner with the Portfolio Management team and R&D leaders to identify key project priorities and deliverables resource allocation
• Manage technical resources, budget ownership and tracking tracking across projects
• Drive the development of project briefs from a technical perspective with all stakeholders and develop the project plan, milestones, and resource requirements.
• Manage R&D project team meetings to ensure technical milestones are achieved.
• Track and manage project technical progress, identify risks to be communicated to stakeholders, and develop scenario options to be considered by governance committees.
• Ensure projects are continuously evaluated against success metrics and identify work plans to address areas of concern
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement , by enabling new ways of working, implementing process improvements where needed, and collaborating with peers and cross-functional team teams to scale best practices.
• Engage and promote a community of practice among the right right properprojects the Technical Delivery team with a consumer-centric, growth mindset to guide the appropriate projects results.

Qualifications
What We Are Looking For

Required Qualifications

• Minimum of a completed bachelor’s degree in an engineering or science field
• Minimum ten years of business experience in managing or leading complex technical projects
• Experience in working in cross-functional teams
• Experience in the consumer goods industry and or research and development
• Strong leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills
• Comfortable challenging the status quo to drive for better outcomes
• Skilled at driving difficult conversations

Desired Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Previous experience with agile methodologies
• Experience leading a team

• Lead R&D teams through the delivery of complex projects to support our business objectives and priorities
• Drive a culture of agility, discipline, and consumer centricity throughout the innovation process for the R&D team
• Strategically coordinate and communicate with cross-functional technical teams to ensure alignment and collaboration throughout the project lifecycle
• Partner with the Portfolio Management team and R&D leaders to identify key project priorities and deliverables resource allocation
• Manage technical resources, budget ownership and tracking tracking across projects
• Drive the development of project briefs from a technical perspective with all stakeholders and develop the project plan, milestones, and resource requirements.
• Manage R&D project team meetings to ensure technical milestones are achieved.
• Track and manage project technical progress, identify risks to be communicated to stakeholders, and develop scenario options to be considered by governance committees.
• Ensure projects are continuously evaluated against success metrics and identify work plans to address areas of concern
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement , by enabling new ways of working, implementing process improvements where needed, and collaborating with peers and cross-functional team teams to scale best practices.
• Engage and promote a community of practice among the right right properprojects the Technical Delivery team with a consumer-centric, growth mindset to guide the appropriate projects results