Global Portfolio Leader & Program Governance

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Titusville (NJ); On-site; USD 127,000 - 219,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation – 120 hours per year

Sick time – 40 hours per year

Holiday pay – 13 days per year

Parental Leave – 480 hours per year

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per year

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking an Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Leader to establish and drive the portfolio governance framework and provide executive oversight of strategic initiatives. You will lead end-to-end governance, planning, and reporting across the project portfolio, partnering with functional leaders to ensure alignment with CSC priorities.

The role requires building PM capabilities, driving performance, and managing a global team of contractors and professionals to deliver on

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Sciences, Operations, Finance, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in portfolio management, project management, operations, supply chain, finance, or related business functions.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale, cross-functional programs and portfolios in complex global organizations.
• Proven leadership experience managing global teams, across multiple geographies.
• Strong business acumen with financial planning, budgeting, investment governance, and portfolio prioritization.
• Demonstrated ability to operationalize strategy, drive execution, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Proven ability to influence, negotiate, and drive alignment across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Strong understanding of project portfolio management principles, governance frameworks, risk management, and benefits realization.
• Excellent analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to make informed decisions amid ambiguity.
• Strong verbal, written, and executive communication skills with experience presenting to and influencing senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Establish, lead, and continuously enhance the project and portfolio governance framework to enable effective decision making, prioritization, resource allocation, and strategic execution across the function.
• Own the end-to-end Project Governance Process, ensuring consistent deployment, adoption, and compliance across all functions, while driving transparency, accountability, and execution excellence.
• Lead project portfolio planning, review, and reporting activities throughout key business cycles, including BP, JU, NU, LRFP, and other strategic planning processes.
• Partner with functional leaders to ensure the project portfolio remains aligned with CSC priorities and evolving business needs.
• Provide portfolio oversight through measurement, monitoring, and reporting of portfolio health, including expenditures, capacity, risks, milestones, benefits realization, and performance.
• Develop and deliver executive-level portfolio analytics, dashboards, and insights for data-driven decisions.
• Drive continuous evaluation of the project pipeline, ensuring visibility to opportunities, resource demands, interdependencies, risks, and mitigation.
• Facilitate governance forums and reviews to support prioritization, approvals, risk management, and trade-off decisions.
• Establish and harmonize project management standards, methodologies, tools, templates, and best practices for a scalable capability.
• Build organizational PMO capabilities through training, coaching, and standardized ways of working.
• Ensure successful execution by driving adherence to objectives, timelines, budgets, scope, quality, and metrics.
• Oversee capital appropriation and investment governance throughout the lifecycle.
• Lead issue resolution and escalation to remove barriers and maintain momentum.
• Collaborate with Finance, Strategy, Operations, and leadership to align investments with objectives.
• Lead and manage a global team of contractors and project professionals with coaching and accountability.

Skills

Governance leadership

Portfolio management

Project management

Financial analysis

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor's degree

MBA or equivalent

Tools

Planisware

Power BI

Tableau

SAP

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is seeking an Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Leader to establish and drive the portfolio governance framework and provide executive oversight of strategic initiatives. You will lead end-to-end governance, planning, and reporting across the project portfolio, partnering with functional leaders to ensure alignment with CSC priorities.

The role requires building PM capabilities, driving performance, and managing a global team of contractors and professionals to deliver on