Career Milestones Portfolio Partner - Learning Excellence

Career Milestones Portfolio Partner – Learning Excellence 

The Portfolio Partner – Learning Excellence will play a critical role in advancing enterprise learning priorities across Johnson & Johnson NA Innovative Medicines, with primary responsibility for the New Leader Academy. This individual will partner closely with the Portfolio Lead and cross-functional stakeholders to design, manage, evolve, and operationalize learning solutions that build leadership capability, strengthen the learner experience, and align with business needs. 

Success in this role requires a strong learning mindset, experience supporting large-scale learning initiatives, and the ability to lead through influence in a highly matrixed environment. The ideal candidate is future-focused, anticipates challenges before they occur, brings a solution-oriented approach to complex problems, and thrives amid constant change, ambiguity, and evolving business priorities. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and support the Learning Excellence portfolio strategy for the New Leader Academy across Johnson & Johnson NA Innovative Medicines, ensuring learning priorities, curriculum decisions, and portfolio investments align with leadership capability needs and business objectives. 

• Serve as a Learning & Development subject matter partner, translating leadership development needs, learner feedback, and business priorities into actionable learning strategies and scalable program enhancements. 

• Maintain rigorous oversight of New Leader Academy content integrity, instructional quality, learner experience, compliance expectations, and documentation standards within a highly regulated life sciences environment. 

• Proactively identify and escalate learning program risks, stakeholder misalignment, learner experience issues, resource constraints, or implementation challenges that require cross-functional coordination or leadership attention. 

• Represent the New Leader Academy in governance discussions, stakeholder working sessions, cross-functional planning forums, and portfolio reviews, driving alignment and follow-through without direct authority. 

• Support time-sensitive business and leadership requests related to the New Leader Academy, including launch readiness, rapid updates, large-scale deployment needs, change impacts, and post-implementation reviews. 

• Contribute to the continuous improvement of Learning & Development practices by identifying opportunities to simplify, scale, modernize, and future-proof program design, governance, measurement, and ways of working. 

• Build strong partnerships across matrixed teams by sharing knowledge, enabling peer collaboration, supporting onboarding, and promoting consistency across learning portfolios and leadership development initiatives. 

• Effectively manage vendor and supplier relationships, budgets, and utilization. 

• Support enterprise responsibilities, including matrix team collaboration and the planning, development, and execution of additional enterprise-wide initiatives. 

Core Competencies / Attributes 

• Portfolio Management & Execution: Effectively manages portfolio performance, risks, dependencies, gaps, overlaps, and lifecycle actions. 

• Prioritization & Judgment: Evaluates demand, value, and constraints to make informed recommendations on enhancements, sequencing, and retirements. 

• Matrix Collaboration & Stakeholder Partnership: Builds trusted relationships across business stakeholders, SMEs, learning partners, and cross-functional teams to advance shared Learning & Development outcomes. 

• Influence Without Authority: Leads through credibility, clarity, and collaboration to align stakeholders, resolve barriers, and drive action in a matrixed environment. 

• Change Agility & Ambiguity Management: Thrives in constant change, navigates ambiguity effectively, and adapts plans while maintaining momentum and learner impact. 

• Future-Focused Learning Strategy: Anticipates emerging business needs, learner challenges, and implementation risks before they occur, translating insights into practical learning solutions. 

• Large-Scale Learning Initiative Experience: Brings experience supporting complex learning programs, enterprise-wide deployments, leadership development initiatives, and scalable learner experiences. 

• Solution Orientation: Approaches challenges with curiosity, pragmatism, and accountability, developing options and recommendations that move work forward. 

• Learning Governance & Measurement: Ensures adherence to governance, taxonomy, data quality, learner experience, and measurement standards to support continuous improvement and portfolio impact. 

• AI Fluency & Digital Enablement: Demonstrates curiosity and practical fluency in emerging AI tools and digital capabilities, applying them responsibly to enhance learning design, improve operational efficiency, personalize learner experiences, and support future-ready learning strategies. 

• Planning & Coordination: Manages day-to-day portfolio activities, timelines, inputs, and partner coordination. 

Professional Qualifications 

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Life Sciences, or a related field; BA/BS or equivalent required. 

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of relevant professional experience, with demonstrated experience in Learning & Development, leadership development, people leadership, large-scale learning initiatives, pharmaceutical sales, or a related field. 

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. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants may contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, and internal employees should contact AskGS to be directed to the appropriate accommodation resource.