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Technology Student Placement - Consumer Health

Duration: 12 months

Locations: High Wycombe – Buckinghamshire

Sectors: Consumer Health

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Consumer Health business to create a new publicly traded company. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 24 months, and it will be subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as required, and other customary conditions, and approvals.

It is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, this position may be conveyed with New Consumer Health. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to the successful candidate by New Consumer Health at an appropriate time and would be subject to any necessary consultation processes.

For more than 130 years, diversity, equity & inclusion (DEI) have been part of our cultural fabric at Johnson & Johnson and woven into how we do business every day. Our commitment to respect the dignity and diversity of all is embedded in our Credo.

We know that the success of our business depends on having the best talent in a workforce that reflects the diverse markets we serve around the world and an inclusive culture that values different perspectives and life experiences.

That is why we in the UK are working to create an inclusive environment where diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences are valued and each and every one of our people feels that they belong and can reach their potential. No matter who they are.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Johnson & Johnson means “You Belong”!

At Johnson & Johnson Consumer Health, we are driven to improve the personal health of people everywhere. Our differentiated portfolio of iconic brands, including Neutrogena®, Aveeno®, Listerine®, OGX®, and Johnson’s® Baby, delivers life-enhancing, first-to-market innovation. By combining the power of science with meaningful human insights and digital-first thinking, we help more than 1.2 billion people live healthier lives every day - from their very first day! It is as simple as that. Within Johnson & Johnson You are not only joining as an employee, but as a family. You will get to connect and meet lots of people from all areas of the business. In Johnson & Johnson’s diverse company culture, we celebrate the uniqueness of our employees and are committed to inclusion, we are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Start building a career with purpose at J&J and make the next generation the healthiest yet.

Are you searching for a placement opportunity that will enable you to experience a broad range of opportunities and interact with experienced colleagues both globally and cross-functionally? Do you have a passion to innovate, lead and develop your professional skills? If so, then a Johnson and Johnson Technology (JJT) student placement could be the key next step for you.

What to expect:

A placement in Johnson and Johnson Technology (JJT) will allow the opportunity for you to explore and gain experience in different areas of our Consumer Health business. As a placement student you could be supporting our business in implementing key technologies and solutions to help enable our business in impacting the billions of Consumer they touch each day through our products or you could be supporting our technology teams in ensuring our projects are delivering value in line with our regional technology strategies and practices. Regardless of the team you will be placed in you will partner and closely and learn from experienced teams across multiple different geographies and functional areas; understanding how technology plays an important part in the success of our organisation. As a JJT placement student you will enjoy a dynamic role in a fast paced, innovative and ground-breaking environment. Our commitment to you is to ensure your placement in JJT offers you a breadth of experience and learnings.

Areas of opportunities:

Business Technology Student Placement:

The Business Technology Placement will partner with senior and experienced leaders in our Northern Europe cluster (supporting our U.K, Ireland, and Nordic markets) on projects and initiatives that enable a smarter, agile, and collaborative way of working within the organisation. You will work closely with the business to drive strategic outcomes through effective utilisation of technology, whilst gaining exposure to organisational tools and ways of working over the placement year.

We believe that experience crafting innovative technology solutions, agile ways of working, intellectual curiosity, and leading small delivery teams are essential to enable you to be successful. Furthermore, it is important that you are a natural collaborator, who has the leadership presence to influence results and build a solid sense of collective team engagement. We want to see you become a passionate and proven leader with the ability to gain business partner agreement, communicate confidently at both the technical and project team level, and collaborate with a variety of technical and non-technical teams.

You will develop your leadership skillset around relationship management, project/program management, business process/analysis, quality and compliance. Alongside working on projects this role will guide you in seeing the bigger picture, not just with what we do, but why we do things as a company.

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your hands-on experience within a technology role and help drive a consumer-obsessed agile culture!

Main duties, responsibilities, and areas we will develop you in:

• Being the first point of contact for business partners.
• Utilising your network to continuously improve and add value to the business using technology.
• Using technology and working alongside business partners to support the Consumer Health organization with their technology needs.
• Moving projects forward using agile methodologies whilst ensuring the business requirements are considered at every stage of iterations and changes until project completion.
• Understand the technological capabilities and demand required by the Commercial departments.
• Apply business analysis to continuously improve existing technologies as well as growing and adopting new technologies for our business partners.
• Assessing the current technology landscape and identifying solutions that support the business strategies for the franchise.
• Lead projects from the beginning of client engagement through delivery/execution to our business partners.
• You will receive training in technologies and areas such as data analysis, business analysis, project management, Microsoft 365 tools and Power Platform.
  

IT Project Analyst:

As an IT Project Analyst you will work in our project, portfolio and management team supporting our Consumer commercial organisation in enabling us to be more agile through effective project management.

The IT Strategy, Portfolio and Project Analyst Placement will work as a core team member in our Strategy, Portfolio and Project office (PPO) supporting the EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa) region. The successful candidate will work alongside the PPO manager to drive and deliver effective and efficient project management. This is accomplished through the application of standard tools and processes, ultimately with the goal of improving and streamlining project management and enabling the shift to agile ways of working.

Working mainly virtually with teams and business partners around the world, you will have exposure to a wide variety of projects and the opportunity to form relationships across a broad range of teams, providing training and coaching to project managers to ensure they are set up for success. You will be responsible for ensuring that project teams are utilising the processes and tools to optimally manage scope, schedule, financials and resources.

This is a phenomenal opportunity to gain a detailed immersion into project management within the IT space and will require someone who can demonstrate effective communication and personable skills to engage with key decision-takers to keep projects moving forward.

Main duties, responsibilities, and areas we will develop you in:

• Learning about the project management field and associated tools (Microsoft Project, Tableau, JIRA).
• Manage core project processes in EMEA.
• Support the EMEA PPO Manager with portfolio lifecycle e.g., finance updates & project insights.
• Take a project manager role in the remaining EMEA migrations from Microsoft Project to JIRA, working closely with JIRA leads to transition seamlessly between tools.
• Assisting project team in their agile execution and delivery of projects.
• Effectively communicating with users, decision-makers and PPO Leadership
• Assisting support teams in troubleshooting applications in subject matter areas

Qualifications - External

Requirements for the role:

• 2 years of degree level study completed.
• A minimum of 2:1 achieved in the first year of study.
• Any degree is welcome, but it would be an advantage to be able to understand and translate technical concepts.
• Project management experience, using formal project management methodology, techniques and tools is an advantage but not required.
• Comfortable networking with various individuals within the business

Our commitment to you:

• Mentoring and coaching – As one of the leading healthcare companies in the world we have an extensive network of experienced staff who are only willing to connect and help grow early talent. We will ensure you have the opportunity to be mentored and coached.
• Authentic responsibilities and opportunities – as you grow so will your opportunities. Our goal is to ensure you have a varied placement to ensure you find what works for you and what doesn’t. The only way to achieve this is to ensure you are offered meaningful, real experiences that help add value to our business and operations.
• Hybrid/Flexible working arrangements
• An inclusive and welcoming work environment – Johnson & Johnson is recognised as a top employee throughout the world and this is due to the great workplace environment our employees foster to ensure everyone is heard and included – including you! As early talent, you have fresh insights that will ensure we are continuously innovating and pushing the boundaries of technology.
• Competitive benefits and compensation – as a placement student you are treated the exact same as any other full time member of staff.
• At the end of your studies there is a potential opportunity to convert into a full time role based on your performance during placement.

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