Strategic Data & Portfolio Leader, DDSAI

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 122,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation – 120 hours per year

Sick time – 40 hours per year

Holiday pay – 13 days per year

Work, Personal and Family Time – up to

Parental Leave – 480 hours within one

Bereavement Leave – 240 hours

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations, Data, Data Science and AI (DDSAI) to partner with DDSAI and R&D leadership, enabling data‑driven decision‑making across the Technology, Data, and AI portfolio.

This role combines portfolio management with hands‑on technical execution, owning governance, planning, resource management, executive reporting, and portfolio analytics while maintaining the capability to process data, automate workflows, build dashboards, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in portfolio, program, or project management, strategy & operations, or data analytics.
• Experience supporting leadership decision‑making through analytics and reporting, including executive dashboards and automated reporting solutions.
• Experience in technology, digital, data, AI, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or R&D environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical teams and executive leadership, and to influence without authority in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Develop portfolio dashboards, executive scorecards, and KPIs, including value‑realization metrics.
• Monitor delivery performance, milestones, financials, resource utilization, and business outcomes.
• Produce insights that inform prioritization and investment decisions, translating complex technical and project information into concise executive‑level recommendations.
• Extract, transform, and analyze portfolio data from multiple enterprise systems (project, finance, staffing, operational)
• Automate reporting using both deterministic and probabilistic systems
• Design portfolio data models and reusable reporting frameworks that support executive reporting and reduce manual effort.
• Establish data quality validation, controls, and master data / metadata standards.
• Design and implement automated reporting solutions using enterprise‑approved AI and non‑AI tools.
• Build workflows that automate collection, aggregation, validation, and distribution of portfolio information.
• Identify and eliminate manual reporting activities through scalable automation.
• Develop executive‑ready dashboards, presentations, scorecards, portfolio review decks, business planning reports, and resource and financial summaries.
• Prepare materials for leadership team reviews, technology governance forums, R&D leadership reviews, and business planning and strategic portfolio cycles.
• Communicate portfolio performance, health, risks, and recommendations clearly, framing decisions and clarifying tradeoffs for stakeholders with competing priorities.
• Partner with project leads and project managers to strengthen planning, governance, risk/issue management, and reporting consistency across key initiatives.
• Reinforce standardized methodologies, tools, and templates, and provide coaching and best‑practice support.
• Ensure project information is accurate and timely to support transparent portfolio reporting.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

SQL

R

Portfolio analytics

Data modeling

Data quality management

Dashboard development

Portfolio reporting automation

Education

Bachelor's degree required

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Python

Power Automate

Microsoft Fabric

Azure Data Platform

Databricks

Jira

Wrike

Power Apps

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategy and Operations, Data, Data Science and AI (DDSAI) to partner with DDSAI and R&D leadership, enabling data‑driven decision‑making across the Technology, Data, and AI portfolio.

This role combines portfolio management with hands‑on technical execution, owning governance, planning, resource management, executive reporting, and portfolio analytics while maintaining the capability to process data, automate workflows, build dashboards, and