Mgr Tech Product Management

Overview

Lead portfolio planning, governance, prioritization, execution oversight, and value realization for technology initiatives delivered through the Innovation Capability Center (ICC). Partner with technology leaders, product owners, business stakeholders, finance partners, delivery teams, and vendor partners across a complex global technology environment.

What you'll do

• Lead portfolio planning and governance processes for ICC technology programs, product teams, and pivotal initiatives.
• Partner with senior leaders to align portfolio priorities with business strategy, digital transformation goals, and enterprise technology roadmaps.
• Establish and maintain portfolio intake, prioritization, decision-making, dependency management, and critical issue mechanisms.
• Create transparent portfolio views covering scope, roadmap, breakthroughs, dependencies, risks, financials, resources, and value outcomes.
• Supervise delivery health across programs and product teams, including achievements, risks, issues, dependencies, quality, and business outcomes.
• Drive disciplined execution through portfolio rhythms, operating reviews, governance forums, and action tracking.
• Support delivery teams in removing blockers, managing cross-functional dependencies, and ensuring leadership visibility on critical decisions.
• Promote Agile, product-based delivery, and continuous improvement practices across the ICC portfolio.
• Lead portfolio-level budget planning, forecasting, tracking, and variance management with finance and technology leaders.
• Support workforce planning, capacity management, vendor planning, and investment prioritization across internal and external resources.
• Track portfolio spend, benefits, resource utilization, run/grow investment mix, and financial risks.
• Enable data-driven decisions on investment trade-offs, sequencing, and portfolio optimization.
• Prepare executive-ready portfolio updates, dashboards, scorecards, decision papers, and leadership review materials.
• Communicate portfolio health, risks, dependencies, and key decisions to senior stakeholders and cross-functional leaders.
• Facilitate governance meetings, portfolio reviews, steering committees, and cross-functional planning forums.
• Build partnerships with business, technology, finance, procurement, quality, cybersecurity, and delivery stakeholders.
• Identify, manage, and escalate portfolio-level risks, issues, dependencies, compliance needs, and operational control gaps.
• Ensure portfolio documentation, governance artifacts, decision logs, and status reporting are accurate, timely, and audit-ready.
• Support adherence to J&J technology standards, privacy, cybersecurity, quality, procurement, and financial governance expectations.
• Drive continuous improvement in portfolio operations, reporting quality, control processes, and management routines.
• Develop reusable portfolio management templates, dashboards, playbooks, and reporting standards for ICC operations.
• Coach program managers, product teams, and delivery leads on portfolio governance expectations and operating model standards.
• Improve portfolio data quality, tools adoption, automation, and analytics for better visibility and decision-making.
• Champion accountability, transparency, collaboration, inclusion, and outcome-based execution.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in portfolio management, program management, product operations, technology delivery, or transformation management.
• 5+ years of experience leading portfolio governance, financial planning, delivery oversight, or large-scale technology programs.
• Experience working with global technology teams, senior stakeholders, and cross-functional operating models.
• Strong experience with portfolio reporting, executive dashboards, risk management, governance forums, and decision support.
• Portfolio management, financial and resource planning, delivery and governance leadership, and communication skills.
• Portfolio planning, prioritization, roadmap management, benefits tracking, value realization, and dependency management.
• Budget forecasting, spend tracking, variance management, capacity planning, vendor planning, and investment trade-offs.
• Agile delivery oversight, risk and issue management, governance forums, program controls, executive dashboards, and operational excellence.
• Executive communication, stakeholder influence, facilitation, change leadership, problem solving, and data-driven decision-making.
• Portfolio and project management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Planview, Smartsheet, Clarity, MS Project, or similar platforms.
• Executive reporting and analytics tools such as Power BI, Excel, PowerPoint, and collaboration platforms.
• Agile, Scrum, SAFe, Product Operating Model, Lean Portfolio Management, and continuous improvement practices.
• Financial governance, portfolio controls, risk management, dependency management, and technology operating rhythms.

Nice to have

• Master's Degree or MBA.
• Experience in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, Life Sciences, or other regulated industries.
• Experience with Agile, Product Operating Model, DevOps-enabled technology delivery, and digital transformation initiatives.
• PMP, PgMP, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Lean Portfolio Management, Agile, Scrum, or related certifications.
• Experience managing portfolios within ICC, Global Capability Center, Digital Transformation, Clinical IT, R&D Technology, or enterprise technology organizations.
• Experience supporting portfolio operations for data platforms, AI products, cloud applications, clinical systems, or product engineering teams.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategic outcomes, financial discipline, delivery risk, and operational execution.
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a matrixed global environment with senior stakeholder visibility.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid.
• Reports to: Director ICC.
• Organization: ICC / Technology Portfolio Management / Digital & Data.