Technical Product Owner, Manager - Inbound Transportation

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine•New Brunswick, NJ

4d•$102,000 - $175,950•Onsite

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Technical Product Owner to join its Global Trade and Transportation Technology organization in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The role supports the Enterprise Global Transportation organization and leads technical solutioning and prioritization of technology capabilities that improve inbound transportation across the global supply chain. The position aligns people, processes, and technology across the enterprise transportation ecosystem and guides product decisions from discovery through deployment, adoption, and value realization. The Technical Product Owner partners with business and technology stakeholders to identify needs and opportunities, owns the product backlog and delivery priorities, and guides the design and evolution of scalable inbound transportation capabilities. The role ensures alignment with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, quality, regulatory, and compliance requirements, while balancing new capabilities with reliability, supportability, technical debt reduction, and long-term sustainability. The role also leads releases and deployments, measures adoption and business value, and uses performance data and feedback to drive improvements. It fosters inclusive collaboration and product-management practices and may provide guidance and mentoring to product analysts or team members. Travel of up to 25% domestically and internationally is required.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
At least 7 years of experience in technical product ownership, product management, business technology, or a related role supporting enterprise platforms.
Demonstrated experience owning a product backlog and translating business needs into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.
Experience defining product roadmaps, investment cases, objectives, and measurable outcomes for complex digital products.
Experience identifying and shaping opportunities and optimization in support of IT and business strategies.
Working knowledge of supply chain and logistics processes, including inbound transportation and its connections to procurement, warehousing, inventory, and finance.
Working knowledge of SAP and warehouse or transportation management systems within an integrated supply chain ecosystem.
Understanding of APIs, integrations, data flows, system architecture, software development lifecycles, security, and technical debt.
Experience with agile delivery practices, backlog management, sprint ceremonies, release planning, user acceptance testing, and product lifecycle management.
Ability to use data, analytics, customer feedback, and operational insights to prioritize work and measure value.
Strong communication, facilitation, problem-solving, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Ability to work independently, balance multiple priorities, maintain confidentiality, and operate with poise and integrity in a high-profile, constantly evolving environment.
Experience identifying and shaping AI-enabled product opportunities that improve workflows, decisions, user experience, or business outcomes.
Ability to translate AI, automation, analytics, and agentic capabilities into clear use cases, requirements, controls, and product priorities.
Experience partnering with data science and engineering teams to evaluate feasibility, data readiness, risk, and expected value.
Understanding of responsible AI principles, including privacy, security, transparency, human oversight, and compliance with organizational policies.
Practical experience using generative AI tools and prompt techniques to improve product discovery, analysis, documentation, or team productivity.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Transportation Management Systems, carrier connectivity, freight audit and payment, visibility platforms, or enterprise logistics solutions.
Experience with Jira or a comparable agile product delivery tool.
Exposure to optimization, advanced analytics, automation, digital twins, control towers, or emerging supply chain technologies.
Experience supporting large-scale deployments across regions, sectors, or business segments.
Outstanding working knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle), agile methodology, and compliance evaluation processes (Asset Management).
Product Owner, Scrum, SAFe, or related agile certification.

Responsibilities

Partner with Enterprise Global Transportation, segment and regional leaders, and transportation operations to understand business goals, user needs, process pain points, and value opportunities.
Collaborate with Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Data, Architecture, Security, and Engineering to align product decisions and dependencies.
Represent the customer voice using research, feedback, operational data, and product insights to guide priorities and solution design.
Own, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, translating outcomes and requirements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and definitions of done.
Make day-to-day scope and priority decisions, balancing business value, customer impact, technical feasibility, risk, and capacity.
Partner with engineering, architecture, data, integration, and quality teams to evaluate options, clarify requirements, address technical debt, and guide design decisions.
Lead or participate in refinement, sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, release planning, and retrospectives; accept completed work against agreed criteria.
Coordinate cross-team dependencies and resolve ambiguity or impediments that could affect delivery quality, sequencing, or outcomes.
Guide the design and evolution of scalable inbound transportation capabilities across transportation management, ERP, warehouse management, carrier connectivity, APIs, data flows, analytics, and related platforms.
Ensure product decisions align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, quality, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
Balance new capabilities with platform reliability, supportability, technical debt reduction, and long-term product sustainability.
Lead product releases and enterprise deployments with business and technology teams, including readiness, communications, training, cutover, and stabilization.
Define and track product objectives, key results, adoption measures, service levels, user satisfaction, and business value metrics.
Use performance data, support trends, feedback, and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement and roadmap decisions.
Foster an inclusive, collaborative, learning-focused environment and promote product-management practices, knowledge sharing, and collaboration across squads and platform teams.
Provide guidance and mentoring to product analysts or team members as needed.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Life insurance
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Business accident insurance
Group legal insurance
Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
401(k) savings plan
Vacation: 120 hours per calendar year
Sick time: 40 hours per calendar year; 56 hours per calendar year for Washington residents
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, or foster care of a child
Condolence leave: 30 days for an immediate family member and 5 days for an extended family member
Caregiver leave: 10 days
Volunteer leave: 4 days
Military spouse time-off: 80 hours