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Job Function:
Project/Program Management GroupJob Sub Function:
Project/Program ManagementJob Category:
ProfessionalAll Job Posting Locations:
Dublin, Ireland, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, Maidenhead, Berkshire, United KingdomJob Description:
Senior Manager – Commercial Development Projects | J&J MedTech | Vision Care | Western Europe Markets
Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Vision is seeking a Senior Manager – Commercial Development Projects.
This is an office based (hybrid model) in UK (Maidenhead), France (Paris) or Ireland (Dublin, Limerick) with up to 30% travel.
Who are we?
At Johnson & Johnson MedTech, we believe 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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com
Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Vision
Johnson & Johnson Vision is committed to improving and restoring sight for patients worldwide. Since debuting the world’s first disposable soft contact lens in 1987, it has been helping patients see better through its world-leading ACUVUE® Brand Contact Lenses. In 2017, J&J expanded into cataract surgery, laser refractive surgery (LASIK), and consumer eye health, and now serves more than 60 million patients a day across 103 countries with its eye health portfolio.
Purpose of the role
You will be responsible for leading high-impact, cross-functional transformation programmes, with a strong emphasis on commercial value creation, gross profit improvement, and strategic portfolio optimisation for the Vision Care business across the Western Europe markets.
This role goes beyond project delivery and requires a high-agency leader who takes full ownership for outcomes—someone who proactively identifies opportunities, mobilises stakeholders, and drives measurable business impact
The successful candidate will be a leading individual contributor who is viewed as a valuable partner by peers and will act as a catalyst for profitable growth, leading initiatives that enhance capital efficiency, optimise product portfolios, and improve commercial execution through both systems transformation and business model innovation.
This high-visibility role offers the individual the opportunity to showcase their skills and make a significant business impact, providing a robust platform for career development within J&J, allowing them to pursue career aspirations in any chosen direction.
Reporting directly to Managing Director, Western Europe Vision Care, this position will support the J&J Vision Care Western Europe Leadership Team, and work closely with Market Development Director, J&J Vision and EMEA PMO community as as a leading member of the Program Management Office.
Key Responsibilities
1. Programme & Portfolio Management Excellence
Lead, coordinate, and govern multiple interconnected projects, ensuring alignment to EMEA Vision strategic priorities.
Challenge the status quo and drive decision-making
Ensure delivery of tangible, measurable results
Develop integrated programme plans, including timelines, dependencies, resources, budgets & budgetary control, vendor management, and risk mitigation.
Implement robust governance frameworks, including executive-level reporting on:
Value delivery (gross profit, revenue, cost optimisation)
Portfolio health and prioritisation
Strategic alignment and trade-offs
Lead and influence senior stakeholders across Marketing, Commercial, Finance, IT, Supply Chain, and Compliance.
2. Strategic Business Transformation & Value Creation
Lead and deliver a portfolio of strategic initiatives aligned to mid- and long-term growth objectives, with clear linkage to gross profit and return on capital investment.
Proactively identify business issues and opportunities
Identify, shape, and execute gross profit enhancement programmes, including:
Portfolio optimisation (SKU rationalisation, mix improvement, lifecycle management)
Pricing, margin, and trade investment effectiveness
Channel and go-to-market model optimisation
Be accountable for value realisation, ensuring matrix teams deliver against financial and strategic targets—not only milestones.
Translate strategic priorities into a structured roadmap and sequenced project portfolio, ensuring measurable value delivery and benefits tracking.
3. Strategic Roadmap Development
Build and continuously refine multi-year strategic roadmaps linked to:
Sustainable capital efficient profitable growth
Market competitiveness and portfolio positioning
Translate strategy into clear execution pathways, defining:
Priority initiatives
Sequencing and dependencies
Resource requirements and trade-offs
Partner with commercial, finance, and supply chain leaders to ensure roadmap credibility and execution feasibility.
4. Systems & Business Model Transformation
Shape and lead major system implementations (CRM, ERP, Digital EcoSystems) while ensuring:
Strong linkage to business value and commercial outcomes
Adoption and operating model integration
Drive transformation initiatives including:
New trade channels and routes-to-market
Business model innovation
Digital enablement of commercial processes
Who are we looking for?
1. Leadership Expectations
Acts as a catalyst for change, consistently raising performance standards and challenging existing ways of working.
Combines strategic thinking with execution excellence, ensuring ideas translate into delivered outcomes.
Coaches and mentors teams on value-driven programme delivery and structured problem solving.
2. Core Experience
Strong experience in programme and portfolio management in complex, matrix organisations.
Demonstrated experience in:
Portfolio optimisation and commercial performance improvement
Building and executing strategic roadmaps
Managing multi-year transformation programmes linked to growth, gross profit improvement and efficiency
3. Capabilities
High Agency Leadership & Ownership - bias for action, accountability for outcomes, and resilience in navigating complexity.
Strong strategic thinking, business acumen and intellectual curiosity, with the ability to connect initiatives to financial impact.
Ability to translate strategy into executable plans and measurable results.
Advanced stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior leadership level.
4. Technical & Functional Skills
Experience with CRM (Salesforce/Dynamics), ERP (SAP S4 Hana), and Digital Transformations.
Strong grounding in commercial, financial, and supply chain processes.
Expertise in project/programme methodologies (FPX, Agile, PMBOK, etc.).
What type of mark will YOU make?
By joining Johnson & Johnson MedTech you will find boundless opportunities to craft your path & amplify your impact inside & outside our walls. And with our commitment to be the world’s healthiest workforce you can strengthen your body as well and your mind. When you work at Johnson & Johnson you can touch over a Billion lives worldwide every day. And when you apply your talent to our collective purpose there’s no end to the lasting impact we can make together. And that changes everything.
What’s in it for YOU?
It’s important to us that you feel you can bring your whole self to work; at Johnson & Johnson we provide an environment for you to fulfil your career aspirations as well as promoting your physical and mental wellbeing. As part of our offering, you will receive a competitive compensation and benefits package as well as benefits that can be tailored to what is valuable to you throughout different stages of your life.
Required Skills:
Curious Mindset, Strategic Leadership, Strategic ThinkingPreferred Skills:
Agile Decision Making, Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Business Alignment, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility