Director Template Transformation

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Function: Global Legal Organization

Reports to: Senior Director, GSINC Legal & Risk Lead

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Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):
United States - R-101923
United Kingdom - R-102539

Belgium - R-102530

Brazil - R-102530

We are searching for top talent for the Director, GSINC Legal Template Transformation role within the Global Simplification and Innovation in Contracting program, GSINC!

Do you seek big, complex, and ambiguous challenges? Are you passionate about transforming enterprise contracting through simplified processes, modern technology, intelligent data, and responsible AI? Do you want to help build a capability that improves how Johnson & Johnson works with its employees, suppliers, customers, healthcare professionals, research partners, and other stakeholders?

GSINC is building an integrated, AI-enabled contracting capability designed to make contracting faster, simpler, more consistent, and more valuable to the enterprise! The program brings together process, policy, templates, technology, data, and intelligence to establish a scalable contracting foundation across Johnson & Johnson.

The Director owns the global strategy and execution for simplifying, governing, and implementing contract templates, clauses, fallback positions, and playbooks. The role translates approved legal strategy and risk parameters into scalable, user-centered content that preserves critical protections while improving consistency, speed, and readiness for technology, data, automation, and AI.

Operating with significant autonomy and enterprise visibility, the Director leads cross-functional delivery from drafting and approval through localization, deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement. The role resolves issues within delegated authority and escalates material changes to legal position, policy, risk tolerance, or enterprise standards with clear recommendations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own the global legal template transformation roadmap, priorities, deliverables, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead the assessment, consolidation, simplification, drafting, validation, and approval of templates, clauses, fallback positions, playbooks, exhibits, and guidance.
• Set plain-language, user-centered content standards that maintain legal and compliance protections while reducing complexity, negotiation friction, critical issues, and cycle time.
• Steward consistent legal positions and risk treatment; challenge legacy approaches, decide within delegated authority, and frame material issues for senior leaders.
• Lead localization of globally neutral content, limiting variation to approved legal or operational requirements.
• Build the end-to-end operating model, including intake, simplification, taxonomy, roles, handoffs, maintenance, and supporting tools.
• Establish governance for ownership, version control, approvals, exceptions, review cycles, releases, and retirement.
• Sponsor implementation planning, stakeholder alignment, validation, testing, deployment readiness, and resolution of strategic risks, dependencies, and resource constraints.
• Define and report workstream measures for progress, adoption, simplification, cycle time, quality, risk, partner experience, and realized value.
• Partner on training, communications, adoption, lessons learned, and continuous improvement.
• Build alignment across Legal, business, contracting, Technology, and enabling functions; secure decisions and resources.
• Lead assigned team members and partners, with clear roles, expectations, accountability, and capacity plans.

• Juris Doctor, LL.B., or equivalent law degree.
• Advanced training or experience in legal operations, contracting, project management, transformation, process improvement or change management is preferred.

• Minimum 10 years of legal or contracting experience, including leadership of complex commercial contracting, legal operations, or enterprise transformation; life sciences experience strongly preferred.
• Strong legal and enterprise judgment, balancing risk, compliance, business value, market practice, operational feasibility, and user experience.
• Demonstrated success leading complex global workstreams, navigating ambiguity, and influencing senior leaders without formal authority.
• Proven success delivering legal or contracting transformation at scale and connecting strategy, governance, content, technology, data, and change; fluency in automation, analytics, structured data, and responsible AI preferred.
• Executive communication, facilitation, decision-framing, program leadership, problem-solving, talent development, and accountability for outcomes.

• Legal Judgment and Risk Leadership – Balances enterprise protection, simplicity, and business value.
• Strategic Execution, Accountability, and Governance – Converts enterprise strategy into a disciplined roadmap, clear decisions, effective controls, and measurable outcomes; owns delivery through others.
• Enterprise Influence and Stakeholder Leadership – Builds senior-level alignment, navigates competing priorities, and drives timely decisions across global partners.

This is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities; other duties may be assigned.

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.

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