Project Manager - Digital Supply Chain - Analytics

Own the operational backbone of Digital Supply Chain separation, managing governance gates, coordinating ~30 product workstreams , and ensuring leadership always has a clear, credible picture of program health and decision risk across a complex, phased migration. Looking for someone who can manage multiple workstreams, provide product analytics/metrics/data sets for implementing project portfolio workflows. Not just a PowerPoint PM - can really hold teams accountable for deliverables and provide dependency management . Medical Device, Supply Chain, Divesture/M&A experience are all plusses. Candidates should have experience in using Analytics to manage the projects.

• THIS POSITION IS PROJECT MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN SEPERATION. THE CLIENT IS BREAKING AWAY/SPIN OFF SOME OF IT S DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN SO EXPERIENCE IN M&A/DIVESTURE AROUND DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN IS A HUGE PLUS. THERE IS A LITTLE FLEXIBILITY IN RATE FOR THE RIGHT CANDIDATE.

• I WANT TO SEE ALL QUALIFIED CANDIDATES WITH DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN EXPERIENCE.

• CANDIDATES MUST COME OUT OF MEDICAL DEVICE, MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY. PHARMACUTICAL OR LIFE SCIENCE - NOT TRANSPORTATION, GOVERNMENT OR OTHER NON-LIFE SCIENCE INDUSTRY.

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CANDIDATES MUST HAVE GOOD TENURE AND/OR LONG PROJECTS. CANDIDATES WITH RECENT LOCAL PROJECTS HIGHLY PREFERRED. - NO RELOCATION

Senior Project Manager Own the operational backbone of Digital Supply Chain separation, managing governance gates, coordinating ~30 product workstreams, and ensuring leadership always has a clear, credible picture of program health and decision risk across a complex, phased migration.

Core Responsibilities:

Governance & Gate Control Manage decision gates (Scope Lock, Design Approval, Wave Authorization) across all ~30 products; maintain risk, dependency & escalation trackers; prevent uncontrolled scope expansion. Detailed Work Planning & Execution Tracking Own and maintain an activity-level work plan across all workstreams; track execution progress against milestones weekly; identify slippage early and drive corrective action before it hits the critical path. Product Portfolio Orchestration Serve as the cross-functional coordination hub across all ~30 supply chain product workstreams; align product owners, architects, and IT leads across both NewCo and RemainCo during transition; manage dependency sequencing across four migration waves; resolve blockers before critical path impact. Stakeholder Management & Communications Own the stakeholder communication cadence across Digital, JJT, Finance, and Ortho BU sponsors; manage alignment with NewCo and RemainCo leadership throughout separation; ensure no stakeholder is surprised at a gate review; draft and distribute decision memos, escalation notices, and separation milestone communications. Executive Reporting Prepare weekly Digital LT updates; develop Steering Committee gate materials; translate product-level disposition status into business impact; clearly surface capacity gaps and unresolved decisions. Financial & TSA Oversight Maintain TSA register and exit milestone tracking across product portfolio; baseline run-rate and stranded cost exposure with Finance; ensure separation design reflects financial and contractual constraints per product.

Required Experience:

10+ years enterprise program management Direct experience managing large digital product portfolios (20+ products) through separation or transition Supply chain domain familiarity: inventory, demand planning, supplier management, fulfillment integrations M&A carve-out, divestiture/separation, TSA (Transition Service Agreement) structuring, management, and exit planning at product level Cross-functional alignment across Digital, IT, Finance, Legal, and Business Unit stakeholders Required Skills & Fluency Product-level dependency mapping across separation risk domains (data, integration, TSA, financial) Sequencing logic across mixed-complexity portfolio: clean-break products, shared platforms, TSA-dependent transitions Decision-gated program management with clear escalation and recommendation framing Financial literacy: run vs. one-time cost modeling, stranded cost exposure, license allocation, contract novation Tech fluency: SaaS/cloud product separation concepts, API-based integrations, IoT platform basics, enterprise data platforms

Tools:

Devensoft (or equivalent portfolio tracker), PowerPoint, Excel