Senior Manager, Portfolio Management
Johnson & Johnson
4 hours ago
Remote friendly (Malvern, PA)
United States
Corporate Functions
Senior Manager, Portfolio Management (Global Project Portfolio - GPP)
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the stand-up and maturation of the Global Project Portfolio (GPP) as a core decision-making capability, including defining portfolio governance, roles, ownership, and ways of working
- Act as steward of a single source of truth for the global Capex project portfolio, integrating data across enterprise systems to provide an end-to-end view of investments, performance, and risk
- Evolve portfolio reporting from descriptive dashboards to forward-looking and predictive insights to anticipate schedule, cost, and resource risks, optimize capital allocation, and align investments to strategic priorities
- Develop and deliver consolidated portfolio views (including Capex and schedule risk) to support leadership decision-making and portfolio trade-offs
- Translate complex portfolio data into clear, leadership-team-ready insights and recommendations to influence investment and prioritization decisions
- Enable linkage between high-risk assets and project portfolios to ensure early identification, visibility, and mitigation of risks
- Embed resource management and capacity planning into portfolio insights to proactively identify constraints impacting delivery
- Partner across E&PS functions, regions, and business stakeholders to ensure consistent inputs, alignment, and adoption of portfolio standards
- Build portfolio literacy by training and coaching user groups to interpret GPP outputs and apply insights in portfolio and leadership forums
- Continuously improve portfolio processes, analytics, and tools to strengthen transparency, predictability, and portfolio performance
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required (Engineering, Construction Management, or related field preferred)
- Qualifications or formal training in data analytics
- Relevant certification/qualification in Portfolio or Program Management
- MBA or equivalent advanced business degree
- FPX Trained
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Project Delivery management, including operating at portfolio or program level
- Proven ability to partner across diverse functions in a matrixed environment
- Strong analytical capability (extracting, analyzing, interpreting data to drive insights)
- Demonstrated ability to translate data into clear, senior-leadership-ready presentations and recommendations
- Knowledge of portfolio management systems and inter-segment coordination (e.g., Planisware, G-Craft, or similar)
- Experience using analytics and integrated data for portfolio/program-level decision-making
- Familiarity with portfolio/capital/enterprise planning tools (e.g., Planisware or similar)
- Ability to translate complex portfolio data into executive-ready insights and recommendations
- Experience supporting portfolio governance, operating models, or investment decision frameworks
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, enabling adoption of new tools and ways of working
Preferred Skills:
- Agile Decision Making; Agility Jumps
- Analytics Insights
- Business Alignment; Continuous Improvement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Leadership
- Organizational Project Management; Organizing
- Program Management
- Project Management Methodology (PMM)
- Project Management Office (PMO)
- Project Management Tools; Project Reporting
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Technical Credibility
Benefits (time off):
- Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year (Colorado: 48; Washington: 56)
- Holiday pay (including Floating Holidays): 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of birth/adoption/foster care
- Bereavement Leave: 240 hours immediate family; 40 hours extended family per calendar year
- Caregiver Leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
- Volunteer Leave: 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours per calendar year
Application instructions:
- This role may be posted under different requisition numbers by country; apply to the posted requisition(s) that align with your preferred location(s). If multiple requisitions apply, applications are considered as a single submission.
- External applicants: https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the stand-up and maturation of the Global Project Portfolio (GPP) as a core decision-making capability, including defining portfolio governance, roles, ownership, and ways of working
- Act as steward of a single source of truth for the global Capex project portfolio, integrating data across enterprise systems to provide an end-to-end view of investments, performance, and risk
- Evolve portfolio reporting from descriptive dashboards to forward-looking and predictive insights to anticipate schedule, cost, and resource risks, optimize capital allocation, and align investments to strategic priorities
- Develop and deliver consolidated portfolio views (including Capex and schedule risk) to support leadership decision-making and portfolio trade-offs
- Translate complex portfolio data into clear, leadership-team-ready insights and recommendations to influence investment and prioritization decisions
- Enable linkage between high-risk assets and project portfolios to ensure early identification, visibility, and mitigation of risks
- Embed resource management and capacity planning into portfolio insights to proactively identify constraints impacting delivery
- Partner across E&PS functions, regions, and business stakeholders to ensure consistent inputs, alignment, and adoption of portfolio standards
- Build portfolio literacy by training and coaching user groups to interpret GPP outputs and apply insights in portfolio and leadership forums
- Continuously improve portfolio processes, analytics, and tools to strengthen transparency, predictability, and portfolio performance
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required (Engineering, Construction Management, or related field preferred)
- Qualifications or formal training in data analytics
- Relevant certification/qualification in Portfolio or Program Management
- MBA or equivalent advanced business degree
- FPX Trained
- Minimum 5 years of experience in Project Delivery management, including operating at portfolio or program level
- Proven ability to partner across diverse functions in a matrixed environment
- Strong analytical capability (extracting, analyzing, interpreting data to drive insights)
- Demonstrated ability to translate data into clear, senior-leadership-ready presentations and recommendations
- Knowledge of portfolio management systems and inter-segment coordination (e.g., Planisware, G-Craft, or similar)
- Experience using analytics and integrated data for portfolio/program-level decision-making
- Familiarity with portfolio/capital/enterprise planning tools (e.g., Planisware or similar)
- Ability to translate complex portfolio data into executive-ready insights and recommendations
- Experience supporting portfolio governance, operating models, or investment decision frameworks
- Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, enabling adoption of new tools and ways of working
Preferred Skills:
- Agile Decision Making; Agility Jumps
- Analytics Insights
- Business Alignment; Continuous Improvement
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Leadership
- Organizational Project Management; Organizing
- Program Management
- Project Management Methodology (PMM)
- Project Management Office (PMO)
- Project Management Tools; Project Reporting
- Statement of Work (SOW)
- Technical Credibility
Benefits (time off):
- Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year (Colorado: 48; Washington: 56)
- Holiday pay (including Floating Holidays): 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal and Family Time: up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of birth/adoption/foster care
- Bereavement Leave: 240 hours immediate family; 40 hours extended family per calendar year
- Caregiver Leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
- Volunteer Leave: 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours per calendar year
Application instructions:
- This role may be posted under different requisition numbers by country; apply to the posted requisition(s) that align with your preferred location(s). If multiple requisitions apply, applications are considered as a single submission.
- External applicants: https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers