Technical Product Owner, Manager - Inbound Transportation

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Job Function:

Technology Product & Platform Management

Job Sub Function:

Technical Product Management

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are seeking a Technical Product Owner, Manager – Inbound Transportation to join our Global Trade and Transportation Technology organization. This position will be based in New Brunswick, NJ.

This role will serve as Johnson & Johnson Technology leader supporting the Enterprise Global Transportation organization. The Technical Product Owner will lead the technical solutioning, and prioritization of technology capabilities that improve inbound transportation across Johnson & Johnson’s global supply chain. This leader will ensure clear people, process, and technology alignment across the Enterprise Global Transportation ecosystem. Success requires strong product ownership, technical fluency, disciplined prioritization, and the ability to guide decisions from discovery through deployment, adoption, and value realization.

Within Global Trade and Transportation, we connect business strategy with technology to solve complex problems at scale. We collaborate across functions, sectors, and regions to deliver reliable, secure, and intuitive digital products for employees, partners, suppliers, customers, and patients.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Partnership and Product Discovery

• Partner with Enterprise Global Transportation, segment and regional leaders, and transportation operations to understand business goals, user needs, process pain points, and value opportunities.

• Collaborate across Supply Chain, Procurement, Finance, Data, Architecture, Security, and Engineering to align product decisions and dependencies.

• Represent the voice of the customer by using research, feedback, operational data, and product insights to guide priorities and solution design.

Backlog Ownership and Agile Delivery

• Own, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, translating outcomes and requirements into epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, and clear definitions of done.

• Make day-to-day scope and priority decisions for the product team, balancing business value, customer impact, technical feasibility, risk, and capacity.

• Partner with engineering, architecture, data, integration, and quality teams to evaluate options, clarify requirements, address technical debt, and guide design decisions.

• Lead or actively participate in refinement, sprint planning, reviews, demonstrations, release planning, and retrospectives; accept completed work against agreed criteria.

• Coordinate cross-team dependencies and remove ambiguity or impediments that could affect delivery quality, sequencing, or outcomes.

Technical Product Leadership

• Guide the design and evolution of scalable inbound transportation capabilities across transportation management, ERP, warehouse management, carrier connectivity, APIs, data flows, analytics, and related platforms.

• Ensure product decisions align with enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, quality, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

• Balance new capabilities with platform reliability, supportability, technical debt reduction, and long-term product sustainability.

Deployment, Adoption, and Value Realization

• Lead product releases and enterprise deployments in partnership with business and technology teams, including readiness, communications, training, cutover, and stabilization activities.

• Define and track product objectives, key results, adoption measures, service levels, user satisfaction, and business value metrics.

• Use performance data, support trends, feedback, and lessons learned to drive continuous improvement and roadmap decisions.

Team Leadership and Ways of Working

• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, and learning-focused environment in which diverse perspectives improve product decisions.

• Promote strong product management practices, knowledge sharing, and effective collaboration across squads and platform teams.

• Provide guidance and mentoring to product analysts or team members as needed.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Supply Chain, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• 7+ years of experience in technical product ownership, product management, business technology, or a related role supporting enterprise platforms.

• Demonstrated experience owning a product backlog and converting business needs into epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.

• Experience defining product roadmaps, investment cases, objectives, and measurable outcomes for complex digital products.

• Experience identifying and crafting areas of opportunity and optimization in support of IT and business strategies.

• Working knowledge of supply chain and logistics processes, including inbound transportation and its connections to procurement, warehousing, inventory, and finance.

• Working knowledge of SAP and warehouse or transportation management systems within an integrated supply chain ecosystem.

• Understanding of APIs, integrations, data flows, system architecture, software development lifecycles, security, and technical debt.

• Experience with agile delivery practices, backlog management, sprint ceremonies, release planning, user acceptance testing, and product lifecycle management.

• Ability to use data, analytics, customer feedback, and operational insights to prioritize work and measure value.

• Strong communication, facilitation, problem-solving, influencing, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

• Possess the ability to work independently, balance multiple priorities, maintain confidentiality, and operate with poise and integrity in a high profile, and constantly evolving environment is required.

AI and Digital Fluency 

• Experience identifying and shaping AI-enabled product opportunities that improve workflows, decisions, user experience, or business outcomes.

• Ability to translate AI, automation, analytics, and agentic capabilities into clear use cases, requirements, controls, and product priorities.

• Experience partnering with data science and engineering teams to evaluate feasibility, data readiness, risk, and expected value.

• Understanding of responsible AI principles, including privacy, security, transparency, human oversight, and compliance with organizational policies.

• Practical experience using generative AI tools and prompt techniques to improve product discovery, analysis, documentation, or team productivity.

Preferred Qualifications 

• Experience with Transportation Management Systems, carrier connectivity, freight audit and payment, visibility platforms, or enterprise logistics solutions.

• Experience with Jira or a comparable agile product delivery tool.

• Exposure to optimization, advanced analytics, automation, digital twins, control towers, or emerging supply chain technologies.

• Experience supporting large-scale deployments across regions, sectors, or business segments.

• Outstanding working knowledge of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle), agile methodology, and compliance evaluation processes (Asset Management).

• Product Owner, Scrum, SAFe, or related agile certification.

Travel 

• Up to 25% domestic and international travel.

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Analytical Reasoning, Coaching, Cost Management, Critical Thinking, Give Feedback, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Organizing, Performance Measurement, Product Development, Product Improvements, Product Strategies, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Research and Development, Software Development Management, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Technical Credibility, Technical Writing

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$102,000 - $175,950

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance. Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours per calendar year Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member Caregiver Leave – 10 days Volunteer Leave – 4 days Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours  Additional information can be found through the link below.