Director, Global Business Operations & Capital Project Delivery Orthopedics in Leeds

Job Function: Environmental Health, Safety (EH&S) and Facilities Services (FS)

Job Sub Function: Facilities Management & Planning

Job Category: People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone company, DePuy Synthes. The separation is expected to be completed within 18 to 24 months. If accepted, you would become an employee of DePuy Synthes governed by its employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans.

Position Summary: Reporting to the VP of Global Real Estate, Facility Management and Corporate Operations, you will lead end‑to‑end portfolio, program, and project delivery across global real estate, facilities management, and capital investment initiatives. You will leverage data analytics and enterprise insights to drive strategic decision‑making, governance, and performance management for construction, renovations, expansions, and large‑scale capital projects worldwide.

Key Responsibilities:

• Portfolio, Program & Project Delivery: Lead enterprise programs and project management, providing end‑to‑end project strategy and delivery support across ideation, definition, and execution phases. Establish and oversee project controls, including risk, cost, and schedule management processes. Drive benchmarking and continuous improvement across project delivery models.
• Engineering & Design Standards: Own global engineering standards and standard design platforms to ensure consistency, scalability, and compliance. Champion continuous innovation in engineering and design practices to improve efficiency, quality, and outcomes.
• Financial & Business Operations Management: Define and lead financial management strategy, reporting, and performance management for capital programs and operations. Provide business case development and decision support for strategic investments. Oversee strategic partner governance, procure‑to‑pay processes, and business operations analysis to ensure financial discipline and value realization.
• Change, Communication & Crisis Management: Lead change management initiatives to support enterprise transformation and project adoption. Direct crisis management and communication strategies in support of business continuity and risk mitigation.
• Data, Analytics & Insights: Set and execute the end‑to‑end data strategy for portfolio analytics and insights. Translate internal and external insights into actionable intelligence to inform strategic investments, governance, and performance outcomes. Accountable for the selection, implementation and adoption of capital program and project management tools.

Organizational Scope: Provides leadership across business operations, project delivery / business case development, communications/crisis management, and technology, insights, and analytics functions. Partners closely with senior leaders to align global real estate and capital project delivery with enterprise strategy.

Core Capabilities & Competencies:

• Enterprise portfolio and program leadership
• Strategic capital project delivery
• Financial acumen and business operations governance
• Engineering standards and innovation leadership
• Change management and executive communication
• Data‑driven decision‑making and analytics

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum Education Requirement: Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in facilities management, engineering, business, operations management, etc., or equivalent required.
• Professional Experience: Minimum of 10 years of relevant experience with experience in health care products is highly desired. Minimum 5 years of CRE / Facilities experience is preferred. Managing a portfolio across multiple countries, inclusive of project delivery, real estate and/or facilities management preferred.
• Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities: Knowledge of operations management with some background in real estate, facilities management, and delivering capital projects in a complex footprint environment. The demonstrated ability to influence without direct authority is essential. Demonstrated experience of regional collaboration, completion of significant programs, and people development. Insight-driven to uncover unmet needs. Translate these needs into viable solutions that create value. Experience in working with and socializing strategies with executive leadership. Experience managing large geographically dispersed teams. Proven Leadership and ability to collaborate and influence cross functional business partners. Experience in CRE, facilities and/or manufacturing.
• People Management Experience: Candidates must have a minimum of 8 years of successfully managing people, including building and developing technical compliance teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in business, facilities management, engineering, etc. or equivalent, is preferred.
• Certification in CFM, MCR, and/or SLCR is preferred.

Travel on the Job: Yes, up to 30% domestically and internationally.