Director, Strategic Projects

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Santa Clara
Posted on: October 9, 2024

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson's Robotics and Digital Solutions Supply Chain organization is recruiting for a Director, Strategic Projects. The role is a full-time position and will be located in Santa Clara, CA or Phoenix, Arizona with an expectation of being in the office 3+ days per week.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/.Robotics and Digital Solutions, is part of Johnson & Johnson Med Tech. At Johnson & Johnson Robotics and Digital Solutions, we're changing the trajectory of health for humanity, using robotics to enhance healthcare providers' abilities and improve patients' diagnoses, treatments, and recovery times. Johnson & Johnson Robotics was established in 2020 with the integration of Auris Health, Verb Surgical, C-SATS, and Ethicon. It comprises three key med-tech platforms: Flexible Robotics (MONARCH--), Surgical Robotics (OTTAVA---), and Digital Solutions. Join our collaborative, rapidly growing teams in the San Francisco Bay Area (Redwood City and Santa Clara), Cincinnati, and Seattle. You'll collaborate on breakthrough medical technologies that unite multiple subject areas to build a connected digital ecosystem that advances medical professionals' skills and improves patient outcomes.The Director, Strategic Projects will report into the Sr. Director, Strategy and Planning and is a leading expert individual contributor who manages the strategic planning, design and tactical execution of large-scale supply chain strategic programs for Johnson & Johnson Surgical Robotics supply chain. The Director, Strategic Projects is the technical leader with accountability for the performance of highly complex projects, leading flawless project execution, and partnering across multiple stakeholder groups at all levels to drive project delivery for large strategic programs including, but not limited to driving innovation to ensure safety and quality, reducing cost and schedule, leading on learning adoption internally and externally, overseeing commissioning, qualification and validation of FDA and other agency regulated facilities, technology transfer and regulations governing product manufacturing.This role is responsible for managing and ensuring the progress throughout the project leading the expedition of key activities across the function, finding solutions to key problems, and communicating project progress, issues and solutions to management and to the project team. This individual is also responsible for training and mentoring Project Managers (internal and external) to develop leadership skills and capabilities in project ideation and deliveryA suitable candidate for this role will have excellent leadership experience on all aspects of project management end to end including ideation and business value realization for complex capital projects. They will also have sound experience and knowledge of process engineering and industry experience in medical devices.This role requires strong collaboration skills and partnership with R&D, Global Strategic Marketing, Regulatory Affairs, Clinical Engineering, Supply Chain, Quality, Human Resources, Finance and Corporate teams, and external partners.Major Duties & Responsibilities

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• Leads MedTech Surgery Robotics Supply Chain strategic projects including large-scale network initiatives and transformation programs.
• Leads evaluation of new projects in collaboration with stakeholders, leadership and corporate partners to design solutions that meet the business need, develop value proposition, investment rational, and secure budget approval for large-scale programs of $100M+.
• Leads multi-functional teams to operationalize strategy into action, directs and informs core team members, leadership, external partners, and other key stakeholders and provides motivation to achieve project milestones.
• Establishes and leads complex inte rconnected project workstreams, project plans and deliverabl es, cross functional and organizational alignment, and project governance and steering teams.
• Leads and champions process innovation and flexible implementation
• Accountable for creating and maintaining overall project strategic direction, execution, timing, budget, scope, risk/mitigations, trade off decisions, and corrective course of action to ensure project meets business requirements and deliverables.
• Leads the coordination of the design, execution and close out of all project related activities to deliver objectives including safety, legal and corporate compliance, quality, project controls, commissioning, technology transfer, qualification and validation of FDA and other regulatory agencies.
• Defines, prepares and presents relevant content for stakeholders including senior management and steering teams.
• Leads the evaluation of the value delivered versus the value identified in the business need, collating lessons learned from a business perspective.
• Guides colleagues through consultation and mentoring in techniques and processes, and provides functional (matrix) supervision.
• Integrates Johnson & Johnson's Credo and Leadership Imperatives into team goals and decision making.
• Foster teamwork, diversity, and inclusion within team, between teams and other groups.\r\r

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