Divestiture Payroll Product Manager Americas

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Job Function:

Finance

Job Sub Function:

Payroll

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Tampa, Florida, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Divestiture Payroll Product Manager located in New Brunswick, NJ. This will be a 18 month duration role.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/

Position Overview

Johnson & Johnson is undertaking a strategic divestiture of its Orthopedic business and is seeking an experienced Divestiture Payroll Product Manager to lead the separation and transition of payroll capabilities.

This role requires a hands-on leader with deep payroll technology expertise, strong delivery discipline, and experience managing complex, multi-country payroll transformations in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

Payroll Product Ownership

• Define and execute the payroll product strategy for divested entities across the Americas.

• Lead the separation of payroll systems and processes, including Clone and Build-Back-New market models.

• Act as Product Owner across solution design, build, testing, and deployment

• Develop testing scenarios and scripts aligned to desired product outcomes

Transformation Delivery

• Drive end-to-end execution of payroll separation initiatives while maintaining business continuity.

• Develop and execute transition plans including parallel processing, data validation, go-live, and hypercare.

Technology, Data & Integration

• Partner with data teams to define migration strategies, mappings, cleansing rules, reconciliation, and archival.

• Define and manage payroll integrations, controls, and error-handling mechanisms.

• Design payroll-to-GL posting strategies aligned with ERP ecosystems.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure statutory compliance, audit readiness, and role-based access controls across countries.

• Proactively identify and mitigate payroll risks and dependencies.

Process Improvement:

• Find opportunities for process and system enhancements and implement procedures to improve accuracy, efficiency, and operational effectiveness. Implement strategies to ensure smooth adoption of new tools or policies.

System Management:

Support business requirements and testing strategy for system enhancements, upgrades/ system changes across the payroll organization for Payroll

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, Finance, HR, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience leading or supporting global payroll implementations.

• Direct experience with divestitures, acquisitions, or carve-outs (required).

• Hands-on experience with enterprise payroll platforms:

• SAP ECC/SuccessFactors

• ADP GlobalView

• Workday

• Kronos / Workforce Manager

Key Skills

• Deep understanding of global payroll operations, controls, and regulatory requirements.

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities.

• Proven ability to lead complex initiatives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.

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 and Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants' needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Coaching, Compliance Management, Critical Thinking, Data Enrichment, Data Reporting, Financial Analysis, Financial Competence, Financial Risk Management (FRM), Numerically Savvy, Payroll Audit, Payroll Processing, Payroll Reporting, Payroll Software, Payroll Taxes, Process Improvements, Technical Credibility

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$102,000 - $177,100

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)). This position is eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program. 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 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. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.