Technical Product Manager, IT Director

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine•Wilson, NC

About The Position

We are searching for top talent for the IT Director, Technical Product Manager located in Wilson, NC. This role serves as a strategic Technology Leader and end‑to‑end solution partner for the Supply Chain organization, responsible for shaping and advancing the technology vision aligned to enterprise business strategies and outcomes. The position leads discovery‑driven engagement with business and technology stakeholders to translate complex business needs into scalable, resilient, and insight‑driven technology solutions. By combining deep domain expertise in Supply Chain capabilities with strong architectural and product leadership, the role ensures that technology investments enable agility, standardization, and measurable business value across segments and regions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
A minimum of 10 years of relevant work experience
Experience in Greenfield site implementation / managing large scale programs including new site commissioning
Supply chain / manufacturing experience required.
Should have hands on experience in digital manufacturing: serialization, MES, SAP, etc.
Proven people and product team leadership experience required
Excellent customer service, interpersonal, communication and team collaboration skills
Focuses on Business agility, Agile delivery with a fail-fast attitude, and measurable outcomes
Strong problem-solving skills with ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment
This position may require up to 15% travel.

Nice To Haves

Experience in Pharmaceuticals/Healthcare industry is preferred

Responsibilities

Responsible for defining the technology vision in alignment with business goals and objectives.
The candidate partners with business and IT stakeholders to understand business needs, identify appropriate technology solutions, define the right application landscape, and influence and drive the solutions with product owners.
Liaison and acts as the end-to-end Technology SME
The successful candidate will also review the relevant business drivers and strategies, understanding and highlighting the implications for the corresponding applications and platforms.
In addition, this leader will partner with other technology functions and architects to ensure alignment and bring solutions to bear that can be flexible and quickly drive value and insights in a common J&J language across Supply Chain.
Drive technology products standardization and strategies to drive best in class design, design consistency, UI/UX engineering, Persona based design ensuring architecture is scalable, reliable, and maintainable systems that meet the needs of our customers and business partners.
Supports Product Group Leader’s application rationalization goal and ALM/TLM responsibility.
Collaborate with product management, design, non-functional requirement, and other cross-functional technology teams to translate business requirements into technology solutions.
Integrate data analytics components, IA, Automation into software architecture to enable data-driven decision-making and enhance user experiences.
Establish technology roadmaps, support Delivery and deployments to achieve cost efficiency, optimization, effective delivery of business & customer value.
Defines the solution and design for the current and new platform applications and supports the evolution of that solution as the platform is deployed at segment or region.
Champions and communicates the end state system design to business, BUIT Segment leaders and Shared Services teams, associating the implication of the reference architecture or design to objectives/drivers/goals.
Mentor and develop technical talent, providing coaching, feedback, and growth opportunities for team members.
Stay current with emerging technologies, external collaboration, Industry trends, and best practices in software engineering, architecture, and data analytics.
Provide technical leadership and guidance to the engineering team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence by establishing partnership with Architecture and Design governance team.
Analyze current technologies used within the segment and develop steps and processes to improve.
Ability to identify and implement process and/or application improvements.
In-depth knowledge of SCOR & DCM SC modeling and responsible for business capabilities to technology mapping.