Tech Ops Project Lead

Lead assigned NPI/LCM supply chain projects, driving deliverables, project direction, core team alignment, and management updates to ensure overall project success. Define and manage key project tasks, milestones, timelines, owners, and critical paths in collaboration with workstream leads to support deployment commitments. Develop, maintain, and communicate full-scale project plans, expectations, status updates, and support all design control documentation in a clear and timely manner. Monitor progress against major milestones, maintain accurate visibility of project status, and proactively escalate risks or slippage impacting deployment dates. Provide operations input into new product design to ensure alignment with business metrics, including cost, manufacturability, and gross profit margin objectives. Support supplier identification, selection, qualification, and robustness assessments, while collaborating on product design, material/process selection, and continuous improvement initiatives. Facilitate commercial supply agreements, demand and capacity planning, scale-up requirements, capital and validation needs, and internal/external manufacturing resource plans. Contribute to cross-functional strategic decisions, including make-versus-buy, site selection, financial, marketing, planning, quality, and design considerations, ensuring Make, Buy, and Plan functions remain engaged throughout the project lifecycle.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. At Johnson & Johnson MedTech, we unleash diverse healthcare expertise, purposeful technology, and a passion for people to transform the future of medical intervention and empower everyone to live their best life possible. For more than a century, we have driven breakthrough scientific innovation to address unmet needs and reimagine health. In surgery, orthopedics, vision, and interventional solutions, we continue to help save lives and create a future where healthcare solutions are smarter, less invasive, and more personalized.

• Good skills in using the relevant IT tools

• Six Sigma/Process Excellence and/or Project Management/PMP/FPX certification preferred

• Strong communication and stakeholder influencing skills are required

• People leadership experience preferred

• Experience leading cross-functional teams is required, experience with New Product Development teams is required

• Experience in developing and implementing business strategies and initiatives

• Well organized, self-motivated, energetic, creative, resourceful, insightful, personable and articulate

• Must possess strong leadership, management and teamwork qualities