Senior Director, CPA Strategy & Operations — Transformation Leader

Antler Co; New Brunswick (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Director, MT CPA Strategy & Operations in New Brunswick, NJ, with global scope and remote options on a case-by-case basis. You will partner with MT CPA leadership to drive strategic priorities, operating model evolution, and governance to improve performance and value creation.

The role emphasizes modernization, external benchmarking, and building scalable capabilities to advance enterprise priorities, reputation, and employee culture across Global Corporate

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 12+ years of experience in communications, public affairs, marketing, business operations, strategy, consulting, digital transformation, or related fields.
• Minimum of 7 years of leadership experience, including people leadership and/or leadership of complex cross-functional teams.
• Strong understanding of communications, public affairs, reputation management, stakeholder engagement, employee engagement, business communications, and culture-building.
• Demonstrated experience leading strategy, operations, transformation, capability-building, process improvement, or organizational effectiveness initiatives in a complex global environment.
• Proven ability to manage budgets, vendors, governance processes, senior partners, and enterprise-level projects.
• Experience using data, insights, analytics, measurement, and external intelligence to inform strategy, improve performance, and demonstrate impact.
• Strong digital fluency, including experience with communications technology, collaboration platforms, workflow tools, measurement tools, AI-enabled capabilities, and emerging technologies.
• Exceptional critical thinking, executive communication, influence, project management, change management, and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to lead through ambiguity, simplify complexity, drive alignment, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and operationalize the function’s strategic priorities, transformation roadmap, and annual planning process.
• Lead ongoing assessment of the effectiveness and impact of core MT CPA processes that drive business growth, reputation, employee culture, and organizational performance.
• Bring external insights, benchmarks, emerging trends, and best practices to help modernize the function and ensure MT CPA remains future-ready.
• Lead MT CPA operating mechanisms, leadership team routines, business reviews, budget governance, vendor management, and priority project management processes.
• Drive operational rigor across planning, prioritization, resource management, decision-making, and execution to ensure the function delivers against enterprise and MedTech priorities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on organizational performance, investment decisions, operational effectiveness, process improvement, and transformation progress.
• Build and lead MT CPA’s insights, analytics, and measurement framework to demonstrate communications impact and inform strategic decision-making.
• Oversee stakeholder research, reputation insights, performance reporting, dashboards, and executive-level recommendations that help leaders understand progress and opportunities.
• Translate data, external intelligence, and internal feedback into actionable insights that improve planning, prioritization, ways of working, and business outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Data analytics

Digital fluency

Stakeholder management

Change management

Budget governance

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Director, MT CPA Strategy & Operations in New Brunswick, NJ, with global scope and remote options on a case-by-case basis. You will partner with MT CPA leadership to drive strategic priorities, operating model evolution, and governance to improve performance and value creation.

The role emphasizes modernization, external benchmarking, and building scalable capabilities to advance enterprise priorities, reputation, and employee culture across Global Corporate