Senior Manager MedTech Tax Planning

Johnson & Johnson • Brunswick, OH

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Manager MedTech Tax Planning. The ideal candidate will be located in New Brunswick, NJ or Zug, Switzerland. Johnson & Johnson believes 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. Position Overview The MedTech Tax organization is recruiting a Senior Tax Manager to lead tax planning and execution across a portfolio of strategic projects. This role will evaluate alternatives, identify planning opportunities, and integrate tax requirements into project design and implementation. Serving as the primary tax lead, the Senior Tax Manager will partner with tax teams and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver compliant, practical, and tax-efficient outcomes. The role requires sound judgment, strong business partnership, and the ability to operate independently in a complex, global environment. This role is duration-based and is currently estimated to continue through mid-2029.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Taxation, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of progressive experience in corporate tax, tax planning, tax advisory, accounting, or finance.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. and international tax, transfer pricing, tax accounting, financial statements, and statutory and tax books.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex cross-functional projects while managing competing priorities, dependencies, and risks.
• Strong analytical, communication, influencing, and business-partnering skills, with the ability to translate complex matters into practical recommendations.
• Proficiency with current technology, data analytics, financial modeling, and collaboration tools, with the ability to adapt to emerging technologies.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Taxation, Accounting, Finance, Business, or Law; CPA, JD, or another relevant professional credential.
• Experience leading tax workstreams for legal entity restructurings, supply chain transformations, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, integrations, or similar strategic initiatives.
• Experience designing and embedding tax requirements into operating models, governance frameworks, processes, systems, or controls.
• Experience supporting complex, technology-enabled business transformations in a multinational environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a portfolio of strategic tax projects through implementation and stabilization.
• Develop and manage tax workplans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and deliverables; drive issue resolution and clarify ownership and decision-making responsibilities.
• Coordinate tax diligence, modeling, approvals, and implementation across tax workstreams, internal stakeholders, subject-matter experts, and external advisors.
• Assess direct, indirect, international, legal entity, financial, and operational tax implications; develop practical planning strategies and translate them into requirements for structures, financial flows, intercompany arrangements, business processes, systems, data, and documentation.
• Monitor relevant legislative, regulatory, and business developments and assess their impact on strategic projects.
• Assess tax compliance, reporting, disputes, and control impacts arising from business, process, system, or organizational changes.
• Partner with Tax Compliance, Tax Reporting, Finance, Legal, and control owners to establish implementation governance and confirm that required tax positions, elections, registrations, agreements, controls, and process changes are in place before go-live.
• Document tax conclusions, approvals, and key implementation decisions in a clear, consistent manner to support ongoing compliance and audit readiness.

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