Senior Manager, Data Products

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • New Brunswick, NJ

1d • $122,000 - $187,128 • Onsite

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson MedTech, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Senior Manager, Data Product Management & Governance. This role will lead business-facing data product strategy, intake, prioritization, governance, and marketplace enablement for MedTech Supply Chain data products. The position will help transform trusted, reusable, well-governed assets that support analytics, digital products, and AI-enabled decision-making. The Senior Manager will partner closely with business collaborators, data product leaders, technology teams, data stewards, quality, privacy, legal, and regulatory partners to ensure data products are discoverable, usable, and aligned to business value.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, advanced degree or equivalent experience in business, information systems, data analytics, supply chain, engineering, healthcare, or a related field
• A minimum of 8 years of substantial experience in data governance, data and digital product management, or enterprise data platforms, is required.
• Experience working in a regulated, and global enterprise environment.
• Confirmed experience with data-as-a-product practices, business glossary development, metadata management, data catalog or marketplace platforms, data stewardship, data quality concepts, access governance, and product lifecycle management.
• Proven track record to influence across business partners.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into clear product requirements, executive-ready narratives, measurable outcomes, and actionable delivery priorities.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, management skills are required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in MedTech, healthcare, pharmaceutical, life sciences, supply chain, quality, or manufacturing environments is strongly preferred.
• Experience leading teams, resources, or cross-functional initiatives is preferred.
• Understanding of modern data platforms, semantic layers, medallion architecture concepts, data pipelines, analytics platforms, AI/ML enablement, and enterprise data controls is helpful.
• Experience with Alation or similar enterprise data catalog, marketplace, or metadata management capabilities.
• Experience developing business glossaries, data dictionaries, domain taxonomies, data contracts, certification standards, or governed data product documentation.
• Familiarity with supply chain processes, manufacturing data, quality systems, product lifecycle controls, or enterprise planning processes.
• Confirmed ability to define operating models, RACI structures, governance forums, and decision frameworks that scale across functions and regions.
• Ability to operate successfully in ambiguity, balance strategic and tactical priorities, and drive practical outcomes in a enterprise environment.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead a structured intake process for product demand, collaborating with business to assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize work based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
• Lead the business-facing roadmap for assigned data products from concept through publication, adoption, improvement, and retirement.
• Translate team member clear product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
• Lead the development and adoption of business definitions, domain taxonomies, product content improving data discoverability, understanding, and reuse.
• Partner with Alation and catalog team members to support a consistent, self-service data marketplace experience.
• Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
• Partner with domain leaders and stewards to maintain business context, data definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls.
• Serve as the primary business-facing partner to data engineering, architecture, platform, and ecosystem product teams.
• Track adoption, usage, team member feedback, and business value measures for published data products. Find opportunities to improve data product usability, reduce duplication, increase reuse, and accelerate responsible analytics and AI enablement.
• Provide leadership, mentor, and direction supporting data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations. Build positive relationships across business, digital, technical, and governance communities.

Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• life insurance
• short- and long-term disability
• business accident insurance
• group legal insurance
• consolidated retirement plan (pension)
• savings plan (401(k))
• long-term incentive program
• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 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
• Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
• Caregiver Leave – 10 days
• Volunteer Leave – 4 days
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior