Senior Manager, Data Excellence
About The Position
Johnson & Johnson is recruiting a Senior Manager, Data Excellence to join our team in Raritan, NJ. Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company. About Surgery Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Patients are waiting. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech Purpose: The Senior Manager, Data Excellence is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving business data capabilities that enable high‑quality decision‑making across Surgery Supply Chain and Operations. This role serves as a strategic partner to business, digital, and transformation leaders to ensure data is accurate, trusted, standardized, and fit‑for‑purpose across end‑to‑end processes and platforms. The role leads data excellence agendas across data governance, data quality, master data standards, analytics enablement, and transformation programs (e.g., ERP and advanced planning platforms). The Senior Manager plays a critical role in enabling scalable operating models, accelerating business outcomes, and embedding a culture of data accountability and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Information Systems, Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in data management, analytics, digital enablement, or business excellence within a complex enterprise environment.
- 5+ years of People Management Experience
- Proven leadership in data governance, data quality, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
- Strong ability to operate across business and technology stakeholders in a matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated experience influencing senior leaders and driving change without direct authority.
- Experience with ERP and analytics ecosystems (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, planning systems, data platforms).
- Exposure to regulated environments (MedTech, Pharma, Consumer).
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree or relevant certifications in data, analytics, or process excellence.
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the enterprise data excellence strategy aligned with business priorities, digital roadmaps, and J&J standards.
- Establish and govern data ownership, stewardship, and decision rights across domains (e.g., master data, transactional data, analytical datasets).
- Lead adoption of common data standards, definitions, and policies to enable consistency and comparability across regions, franchises, and systems.
- Own and drive data quality frameworks, metrics, and issue management processes to ensure reliable, audit‑ready, and compliant data.
- Partner with Quality, IT, and Compliance teams to ensure alignment with GxP, SOX, privacy, and regulatory requirements.
- Proactively identify systemic data risks and lead sustainable corrective and preventive actions.
- Enable business teams with trusted data and insights by partnering closely with analytics, planning, finance, and operations functions.
- Translate business needs into data and insight requirements, ensuring analytical outputs are actionable and decision‑relevant.
- Champion data literacy and self‑service analytics adoption across the organization.
- Serve as the data excellence lead for large‑scale transformation initiatives (e.g., ERP, S/4HANA, planning platforms, digital tools).
- Ensure data readiness across design, build, testing, migration, and deployment phases.
- Drive cross‑functional alignment across business, IT, system integrators, and deployment teams to achieve integrated, end‑to‑end solutions.
- Design and evolve scalable data operating models, including global‑local ways of working and governance forums.
- Lead, coach, and develop data excellence talent, fostering strong functional capabilities and a culture of accountability.
- Influence without authority in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Demonstrates leadership aligned to the Johnson & Johnson Leadership Imperatives.
- Acts with integrity, transparency, and a strong sense of ownership.
- Drives outcomes through collaboration, inclusion, and continuous improvement.
Benefits
- Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
- 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/foster care of a child
- Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
- Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
- 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
