Director, AI Accelerator

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine•North Brunswick, NJ

1d•$150,000 - $258,750

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Director, AI Accelerator within the MedTech Supply Chain Procurement Center of Excellence in Raritan, New Jersey. The Center of Excellence strengthens procurement capabilities through process ownership, trusted data and digital products, scalable execution, and responsible adoption of artificial intelligence. It partners with Business Unit Procurement, MedTech Supply Chain Digital, JJT, the Global Capability Center, and other delivery partners to create consistent, high-impact ways of working. The Director identifies, prioritizes, designs, and scales AI-enabled solutions to improve procurement decisions and productivity. The role owns the AI opportunity and use-case backlog; develops approved AI capabilities, including agents, models, prompts, and orchestration; and integrates solutions into the broader digital blueprint. The position operates within defined process, data, security, and governance requirements, partnering with Global Process Owners and Data Product Owners to translate validated business needs into measurable, adoptable solutions. The role’s mandate is to improve decisions and productivity through responsible AI, automation, and agents while building only against approved processes and validated data. The AI Accelerator does not independently redefine procurement processes, source data, approve its own production release, or make supplier or business award decisions.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Procurement, Business Administration, Information Systems, or a related field.
At least eight years of relevant experience in AI, digital products, analytics, automation, procurement, supply chain, technology, or business transformation.
Experience leading AI, analytics, automation, or digital product initiatives from use-case definition through testing, deployment, adoption, and value realization.
Experience working with enterprise data, digital platforms, product roadmaps, backlogs, and cross-functional technology delivery teams.
Understanding of responsible AI, data privacy, information security, compliance, model risk, monitoring, and governance principles.
Strong leadership, influencing, collaboration, and executive communication and presentation skills.
Ability to translate business needs into clear solution requirements and communicate technical topics in a practical, outcome-oriented manner.
Strong analytical, problem-solving, product management, and change leadership capabilities.
Ability to influence stakeholders and coordinate large, matrixed, global, and virtual teams.
Fluent English, written and spoken, with strong facilitation and communication skills.

Nice To Haves

An advanced degree is preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge of generative AI concepts, agents, prompt design, model evaluation, workflow orchestration, and human-in-the-loop controls is strongly preferred.
Procurement and/or supply chain experience, including familiarity with category strategy, sourcing, contracting, supplier relationship management, risk, resilience, or operational supply management, is preferred.

Responsibilities

Build and execute the MTSCP Procurement AI acceleration strategy and roadmap, aligned with business priorities and the digital blueprint.
Own and manage the AI opportunity and use-case backlog, including intake, value hypothesis, prioritization, sequencing, dependencies, and transparent status reporting.
Partner with Business Unit Procurement, Global Process Owners, and Data Product Owners to define business problems, affected users, expected value, acceptance criteria, and data readiness before development begins.
Design and deliver approved AI solutions, agents, model and prompt approaches, workflow automation, controls, monitoring, and orchestration for priority Procurement use cases.
Lead rapid experimentation and prototyping for future-of-work opportunities, converting successful concepts into scalable, supportable solutions with appropriate delivery partners.
Ensure AI solutions are developed against approved processes and validated data, with documented testing, approvals, release decisions, and clear separation between builder and approver responsibilities.
Coordinate AI solution alignment with MedTech Supply Chain Digital, JJT, and the MedTech Wizard framework, including integration into the broader digital and data ecosystem.
Establish reusable standards, playbooks, patterns, and governance for use-case intake, prompt and agent design, evaluation, deployment, monitoring, and continuous improvement.
Monitor adoption, accuracy, automation rate, hours saved, decision impact, and realized value; translate performance insights into a prioritized improvement backlog.
Identify and manage solution risks related to data quality, privacy, security, compliance, reliability, bias, explainability, and human oversight in partnership with the appropriate control owners.
Lead stakeholder engagement, demonstrations, and executive updates that make AI opportunities, tradeoffs, progress, and business value clear to technical and non-technical audiences.
Enable adoption through practical training, coaching, reusable assets, and communities of practice, in partnership with the Global Process Owner who leads process change management and communications.
Manage relationships with AI delivery partners and internal technology teams, setting clear requirements, delivery expectations, quality standards, and handoffs.
Develop team and organizational capabilities in AI product thinking, responsible experimentation, prompt and agent design, value realization, and outcome-based delivery.
Maintain role boundaries: do not independently redefine procurement processes, source data, approve the role’s own production release, or make supplier or business award decisions.

Benefits

Employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)), subject to the terms of the plans.
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year, subject to the terms of the applicable policies and date of hire.
Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year; 48 hours for employees residing in Colorado; 56 hours for employees residing in Washington, subject to the terms of the applicable policies and date of hire.
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 the birth, adoption, or foster care of a child.
Bereavement Leave: 240 hours for an immediate family member and 40 hours for an extended family member 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.
Additional general information on Company benefits is available at https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits.