Associate Director, Digital Change Lead

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Job Function

Quality

Job Sub Function

Quality Assurance

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Somerville, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America, Wayne, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Associate Director, Digital Change Lead This position can be located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Zug Switzerland, High Wycombe, UK, Issy-Les France & Beerse, Belgium.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

North America- Requisition #R-105951

North America- Requisition #R-105951

EMEA– Requisition# R-106964

EMEA– Requisition# R-106964

Position Summary

The Associate Director is the strategic lead for modernization of the Clinical Risk Management digital and data landscape. The role defines direction, priorities, governance, investment cases, and value measures for CRM-owned digital capabilities and related cross-functional initiatives. The Associate Director partners with the Head, CRM-OpEx, CRM leadership, RDQ functions, enterprise programs, technology organizations, and external partners to align digital investments with clinical risk management, quality, compliance, and business priorities. The role provides portfolio-level leadership across digital lifecycle management, process modernization, data accessibility and quality, controlled change, and sustainable adoption. It establishes the operating model within which the Manager executes process optimization and digital administration. The Associate Director owns senior-level escalation, strategic vendor direction, governance design, prioritization, business cases, budget recommendations, and alignment for joint RDQ digital initiatives, including assets and capabilities that extend beyond CRM.

Principal Responsibilities

• 25% Digital strategy and portfolio leadership: Define and maintain the CRM digital and data strategy, target state, roadmap, investment priorities, value measures, and portfolio sequencing in alignment with CRM, RDQ, R&D, and enterprise direction.
• 20% Lifecycle and modernization accountability: Provide accountable leadership for CRM digital solution lifecycles and major modernization initiatives, including business need, requirements, option assessment, implementation strategy, release decisions, adoption, enhancement, and retirement.
• 15% Governance, prioritization, and executive escalation: Design and chair decision-making mechanisms for demand, change, risk, data, and investment priorities. Resolve or elevate material cross-functional, quality, compliance, resource, architecture, and operating-model issues.
• 15% Data, taxonomy, and information strategy: Set direction and standards for trusted data, master data, taxonomy, metadata, definitions, accessibility, quality oversight, interoperability, and analytics. Sponsor implementation through the Manager and delivery partners.
• 10% Cross-functional and enterprise alignment: Represent CRM-OpEx in RDQ, R&D, and enterprise forums. Partner with other RDQ functions on joint digital initiatives to