The posting
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Job Function:
Supply Chain Engineering
Job Sub Function:
Manufacturing Engineering
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Cornelia, Georgia, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson Med Tech, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting a Sr. Manager, Value Stream Leader - Surgical Energy. This position will be located in Cincinnati, OH.
We have a pre-identified candidate for this position; however, additional qualified candidates will also be considered.
At Johnson & Johnson, 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.
About MedTech Surgery
Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.
Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of surgery? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Surgery team will give you the chance to deliver surgical technologies and solutions to surgeons and healthcare professionals around the world. Your contributions will help effectively treat some of the world’s most prevalent conditions such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Patients are waiting.
Within MedTech Surgery, the Surgical Energy business delivers advanced energy solutions—including the HARMONIC, ENSEAL, and MEGADYNE portfolios and associated capital systems—that help surgeons cut, seal, and coagulate tissue with precision across a broad range of procedures. The Surgical Energy End-to-End Supply Chain organization ensures these products reach surgeons and patients reliably, compliantly, and cost-effectively.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech.
Position Summary
The Sr. Manager, Value Stream Leader - Surgical Energy is accountable for shaping and advancing the end-to-end strategy and performance of assigned product value streams. The role connects Supply Chain, Commercial, R&D, Quality, Regulatory, Finance, and other partners to translate business priorities and customer needs into executable product, portfolio, network, capacity, risk, and lifecycle strategies.
Scope may span one or more Surgical Energy platforms—including HARMONIC, ENSEAL, MEGADYNE, and Capital Systems—based on team priorities. Assignments may evolve as portfolio needs change. The Senior Manager will lead through influence in a complex, global matrix and will balance growth, quality, service, cost, cash, compliance, innovation, and supply resilience when making recommendations and driving decisions.
This role operates at the Senior Manager level and is expected to independently lead medium-scale or interconnected value streams, address systemic cross-functional barriers, and communicate recommendations to senior leaders.
Key Responsibilities
Value stream strategy and governance
- Lead the development, refresh, alignment, and execution of Product Strategy Roadmaps for assigned value streams, translating commercial, R&D, financial, and supply chain strategies into a prioritized multi-year roadmap.
- Establish effective value stream governance, decision rights, performance routines, and stakeholder engagement across the global matrix.
- Connect long-range portfolio plans with network strategy, strategic capacity, lifecycle management, new product introduction, risk and resilience, and annual business planning.
Performance, financial, and portfolio leadership
- Define and monitor end-to-end value stream performance across quality, service, cost, cash, growth, compliance, and resilience; use data to identify trends, root causes, constraints, and improvement priorities.
- Own value stream inputs to financial planning and synchronize assumptions, opportunities, risks, and trade-offs with Finance and functional partners.
- Develop scenarios, business cases, and recommendations covering portfolio mix, SKU rationalization, cost and inventory optimization, capital investments, capacity, sourcing, manufacturing, distribution, and network design.
- Drive prioritization of lifecycle and continuous-improvement investments, ensuring resources are directed to the highest-value customer and business outcomes.
Cross-functional execution and risk management
- Lead cross-functional teams to resolve systemic barriers that hinder value flow, clarify ownership, accelerate decisions, and sustain measurable improvements.
- Identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate end-to-end product and supply risks, including quality, capacity, supplier, continuity, obsolescence, and compliance risks.
- Support structured response and executive communication for significant supply or quality events while reinforcing functional accountability for operational execution.
- Partner with new product and lifecycle teams to ensure supply chain readiness, appropriate network and supplier decisions, effective phase-in/phase-out planning, and stable commercialization.
Leadership and communication
- Influence across functions, regions, and organizational levels to build alignment and drive timely, fact-based decisions in ambiguous and complex situations.
- Prepare clear executive-level updates on value stream performance, strategic choices, risks, dependencies, and required decisions.
- Serve as a change agent for the end-to-end operating model, governance standards, digital tools, and continuous-improvement practices.
- Coach and develop value stream partners and emerging leaders, strengthen team capabilities, and foster an inclusive, accountable, and customer-focused culture.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, engineering, operations, business, or a related discipline.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in end-to-end supply chain, manufacturing, planning, sourcing, distribution, engineering, R&D, commercial, project or program management, or a related function.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and deliver measurable results in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain linkages across demand and supply planning, sourcing, manufacturing, inventory, distribution, and customer service.
- Experience developing strategy, roadmaps, business cases, scenarios, and recommendations from multiple sources of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Demonstrated business and financial acumen, including the ability to evaluate cost, inventory, capital, profitability, and service trade-offs.
- Strong facilitation, stakeholder management, written communication, and executive presentation skills.
- Ability to navigate ambiguity, manage competing priorities, constructively challenge assumptions, and drive decisions without direct authority.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced degree such as an MBA or master’s degree in engineering, supply chain, operations, or a related field.
- Experience in medical devices, healthcare manufacturing, or another regulated industry.
- Experience with value stream management, product strategy roadmaps, lifecycle management, portfolio optimization, risk and resilience, strategic capacity, network strategy, or new product introduction.
- Project or program management certification and/or Lean or Six Sigma certification.
- Experience working in a global environment and with internal and external manufacturing or supplier networks.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, and data visualization or analytics tools.
Other Requirements
- Up to 25% domestic and international travel may be required.
- Must be able to work effectively across time zones and with globally distributed teams.
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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