Director, Portfolio Project Management – Process Excellence

Johnson & Johnson

Director managing GDCL projects in Italy for Johnson & Johnson. Overseeing complex initiatives ensuring supply continuity and operational excellence.

Posted 7/9/2026full-timePomezia • 🇮🇹 ItalyLead💰 €95,900 - €165,370 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead and govern a portfolio of GDCL projects, ensuring alignment with business strategy, financial targets, and operational priorities.
Establish and maintain portfolio management standards, cadence, and reporting, including prioritization, resource allocation, risk management, and performance metrics.
Partner with cross-functional leaders (Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, Quality, R&D, and Commercial) to drive on-time, on-budget execution of strategic initiatives.
Identify interdependencies, risks, and trade-offs across initiatives and proactively recommend mitigation and optimization strategies.
Provide executive-level communication, including portfolio dashboards, insights, and recommendations to senior leadership.
Lead, coach, and develop project managers and portfolio resources, fostering a culture of accountability, continuous improvement, and collaboration.
Drive adoption of project and portfolio management best practices, tools, and methodologies across GDCL.
Ensure projects comply with applicable quality, regulatory, and governance requirements within a regulated medical device environment.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Business, Operations Management, or a related field.
8–10 years of progressive experience in project, program, or portfolio management within supply chain, operations, manufacturing, or a related environment.
Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional portfolios with significant business impact.
Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills, including influencing at the senior leadership level.
Proven ability to establish governance, prioritize initiatives, and manage resources across competing demands.
Experience working in regulated environments (e.g., medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or life sciences).
Strong analytical, financial, and problem-solving capabilities.
Familiarity with Lean, Six Sigma, or continuous improvement methodologies (Preferred).
Advanced proficiency with project/portfolio management tools and enterprise systems (Preferred).
Prior people-management or matrix leadership experience (Preferred).
Language: English (additional languages a plus).

Benefits

Comp & perks

an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions.
vacation days
parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks
bereavement leave
caregiver leave
volunteer leave
well-being reimbursement
programs for financial, physical and mental health.
service anniversary and recognition awards.
participation in several insurance plans, subject to the terms of their respective plans.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Project ManagementPortfolio ManagementResource AllocationRisk ManagementPerformance MetricsLean MethodologySix SigmaFinancial AnalysisContinuous ImprovementStakeholder Management

Soft Skills

LeadershipCoachingCollaborationCommunicationInfluencing