Sen Mgr Digital Asset Owner Source

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine•Hopewell Township, NJ

1d•$122,000 - $212,750•Hybrid

About The Position

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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/. Are you interested in joining a team that is positively impacting patients' lives and driving innovation? Apply today for this exciting opportunity! This role serves as the accountable Product Owner for digital capabilities supporting Competitive Sourcing, Partner Strategy, and Service & Resiliency. The Data Asset Owner is responsible for coordinating the quality, accuracy, and integrity of FAIR data assets. The Data Asset Owner acts as the primary guardian of these assets, providing relevant process expertise and comprehensive change impact analysis as a single point of contact between the data and the planning/project teams to optimize data usage within their designated data domain. When gaps are identified in the semantic layer, the DAO coordinates with the requestor and the data design lead to generate new data assets, translating data needs into data requirements.

Requirements

Minimum of a bachelor’s/university or equivalent degree required; advanced degree preferred.
Serve as end-to-end Product Owner for Source domain digital solutions.
Translate procurement business requirements into prioritized backlog items and user stories.
Lead sprint planning, release governance, and stakeholder alignment within agile frameworks.
Drive enhancements across supplier onboarding, RFP execution, contract management, and supplier performance analytics.
Ensure integration of procurement tools with ERP, finance, and master data systems.
Establish KPIs to track value realization (cost savings, cycle time reduction, compliance adherence).
Partner with Data Asset Owners to ensure supplier and procurement data integrity.
Support deployment, change management, and adoption across global procurement teams.
Maintain documentation and ensure audit readiness of digital product capabilities.
Experience with a common data layer (e.g., Data Lake, CDM, or semantic layer).
Ability to develop, mentor, and build strong collaborative teams and relationships, leading cross-functional teams without direct authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to clearly articulate data requirements, policies, and issues to both technical and non-technical partners.
Capability to analyze data trends, identify potential data issues, and develop alternative solutions to address data inconsistency.
Ability to be an inspiring leader, focusing on business agility, with a fail-fast mentality.
Anticipates and communicates the need for change and innovation in an empathetic and influential manner to ensure that the business responds to demands in an agile, positive, and proactive way.
Requires proficiency in English (written and verbal) to communicate effectively and professionally.
Requires up to 10% domestic and international travel.
Requires the ability, through our flexible work policy, to work on-site a minimum of three days each week, with the option for two remote workdays each week.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree preferred.
Certifications preferred: Six Sigma Certification (Green Belt or higher), Supply Chain Certification (APICS / IBF), and/or Project Management Certification (PMP / FPX).
Experience working in one or more of the following Supply Chain areas: Planning, Quality, Deliver, Source/Procurement, Make/Manufacturing, and/or Technology.
Experience with advanced analytics solutions (e.g., Alteryx, Databricks, Power Automate, or equivalent).
Experience with Intelligent Automation, Process Mining, and/or Scenario Planning solutions.
Knowledge of a broad set of internal and external business drivers and financial indicators across the enterprise in order to prioritize digital products that drive business goals and capabilities.
Experience supporting global procurement transformations.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with the Global Process Manager (GPM) to identify the strategic plan data assets in the areas of supply, demand, inventory, and capacity.
Provide broad input to the data design lead to shape the data roadmap in anticipation of future business evolution.
Translate business data requirements and connect users to the appropriate data assets through developing a data asset assistant, incorporating intelligent automation and GenAI as appropriate.
Maintain the data catalog through documentation of data attributes and definitions in collaboration with the data design lead and business metric owners.
Create and maintain a data change control process that includes impact assessment for changes to and/or decommissioning of current assets.