Senior A&D Cybersecurity Strategy & Deal Operations Leader

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 122,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson seeks a Senior Manager to lead A&D Cybersecurity Strategy, Deal Security, and Operations across a global portfolio of integrations, divestitures, and strategic partnerships. You will translate deal priorities into structured plans, govern playbooks, and ensure secure transaction outcomes.

Role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity, risk management, and program leadership, with strong executive communication and matrixed‑environment experience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business, or a related discipline.
• Advanced degree (MBA, MS, or equivalent) preferred.
• 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.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity risk management, security controls, vulnerability management, identity and access, endpoint security, cloud and infrastructure considerations, incident response, third-party risk, and data protection concepts.
• 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

Information risk management

Program management

M&A transaction support

Integration/separation

Executive reporting

Security controls

Cloud security

Incident response

Third‑party risk

Data protection

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business

MBA / MS or equivalent (preferred)

Job description

Johnson & Johnson seeks a Senior Manager to lead A&D Cybersecurity Strategy, Deal Security, and Operations across a global portfolio of integrations, divestitures, and strategic partnerships. You will translate deal priorities into structured plans, govern playbooks, and ensure secure transaction outcomes.

Role requires 8+ years in cybersecurity, risk management, and program leadership, with strong executive communication and matrixed‑environment experience.