A&D Cybersecurity Portfolio Lead (Senior Manager)

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Butlerville (IN); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the A&D Security Strategy, Deal Security, and Operations. The role steers cybersecurity initiatives across pre-close and post-close phases, coordinating with ISRM, Corporate Development, Legal, Privacy, Finance, and business technology teams to ensure secure transactions.

You will translate deal priorities and risks into structured plans, drive playbook maturity, and provide executive-level reporting.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information risk management, technology operations, program management, M&A transaction support, integration/separation, or related disciplines.
• Experience coordinating complex programs or portfolios involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, vendors, dependencies, timelines, risks, and executive reporting needs.
• Demonstrated ability to translate cybersecurity, technology, and business requirements into actionable operating plans, status reporting, governance routines, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience supporting acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, separations, licensing arrangements, strategic partnerships, or similarly complex business transformation efforts preferred.
• Ability to operate effectively in a highly matrixed global environment, influence without direct authority, and maintain accountability across cross-functional teams.
• Strong executive communication skills, including the ability to summarize technical risk, business impact, open decisions, dependencies, and progress for senior stakeholders.
• Experience improving operational processes, playbooks, workflow tools, reporting mechanisms, dashboards, or portfolio governance practices.
• Demonstrated judgment handling sensitive transaction information, confidentiality requirements, time-sensitive issues, and ambiguous operating conditions.
• Ability to coach, guide, and coordinate internal team members, contractors, and cross-functional contributors while promoting consistent delivery practices.

Responsibilities

• A&D Cybersecurity Portfolio Operations: Manage a comprehensive portfolio of A&D cybersecurity initiatives across pre-close and post-close phases, including timelines, risks, dependencies, workstream status, resource utilization, and portfolio-level reporting.
• Capability Resourcing & Oversight: Support resource planning, onboarding, project assignment, contractor coordination, and operating rhythms needed to scale the A&D cybersecurity capability across a growing pipeline of active and future transactions.
• Deal Security Enablement: Advance deal security initiatives, including service offering awareness, community of practice engagement, deal team education, intake support, and consistent cybersecurity participation across transaction types.
• Reporting, Governance & Executive Visibility: Maintain executive-level reporting on portfolio performance, risk posture, issue trends, decision needs, and progress against integration and divestiture milestones, with refinements to support diverse deal types.
• Post-Close Workstream Coordination: Serve as a delivery lead or deputy DRI for selected ISRM post-close integration and divestiture workstreams, helping coordinate plans, owners, dependencies, status, risks, and escalation paths.
• Process Standardization & Operational Maturity: Establish and improve A&D security administrative processes, playbooks, templates, workflows, RACI models, handoff criteria, portfolio routines, and Definition of Done expectations.
• Continuous Improvement: Capture lessons learned from prior integrations and divestitures, update cybersecurity integration playbooks, improve reporting and workflows, and partner across JJT A&D and ISRM teams to strengthen execution quality.
• Risk, Dependency & Issue Management: Track cybersecurity risks, open issues, remediation activities, decision points, and cross-functional dependencies to help ensure timely closure, escalation, or formal acceptance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with security, technology, legal, privacy, finance, corporate development, transaction execution, and integration/separation teams to align cybersecurity execution with business priorities and transaction timelines.
• Team Leadership & Development: Provide guidance to team members, contractors, project resources, and capability leads in a matrixed environment, supporting performance, onboarding, knowledge sharing, accountability, and consistent delivery practices.

Skills

Cybersecurity governance

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Program management

Security controls

Security policies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security/CS/Engineering/IS/Business

Advanced degree (MBA, MS) preferred

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Manager to lead the A&D Security Strategy, Deal Security, and Operations. The role steers cybersecurity initiatives across pre-close and post-close phases, coordinating with ISRM, Corporate Development, Legal, Privacy, Finance, and business technology teams to ensure secure transactions.

You will translate deal priorities and risks into structured plans, drive playbook maturity, and provide executive-level reporting.