Sr. Director, IT Portfolio Management, Orthopedics

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New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, regulatory approvals, and other customary conditions. If you accept this position, you will be an employee of DePuy Synthes after the transaction and will be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans.

Details of any planned changes will be provided at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.

The Sr. Director, IT Portfolio Management is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and governing the global IT investment portfolio to ensure alignment with DePuy Synthes’ business strategy, value realization objectives, and transformation priorities. This role partners closely with executive business and technology leaders to drive disciplined demand management, investment prioritization, and delivery transparency across the IT portfolio. It plays a critical role in enabling strategic growth, operational efficiency, and scalable technology outcomes across the organization.

Reports into the DePuy Synthes Technology organization. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of strategy, technology, and execution.

• Define and lead the enterprise IT portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment of technology investments with business objectives, financial targets, and transformation priorities.
• Establish and evolve the Enterprise Portfolio Management Office (EPMO) operating model, including governance structures, decision rights, and standardized process for demand intake, prioritization, funding, and value realization.
• Own portfolio financial management, including budgeting, forecasting, cost transparency, and investment discipline through business case rigor and ROI/value tracking.
• Govern AI initiatives across the IT portfolio by establishing a structured intake, evaluation, and prioritization process for AI use cases, ensuring alignment with business value, risk, regulatory requirements, and enterprise AI strategy.
• Oversee portfolio performance by driving transparency into delivery status, financial health, risks, dependencies, and benefits realization through standardized executive reporting and metrics.
• Provide enterprise-level oversight of programs and projects, enforcing consistent delivery standards and ensuring discipline across scope, schedule, cost, quality, and risk management.
• Align portfolio priorities with enterprise capacity by driving resource planning, utilization, and trade-off decisions across competing initiatives.
• Lead IT portfolio governance for separation and transition activities, ensuring alignment to Day 1/Day 2…