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Senior Manager, Programs and Partnerships, Africa and Middle East

Johnson & Johnson · Nairobi

Johnson & JohnsonNairobiPosted 2 November 2026

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Where
Nairobi, Kenya
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About The Role:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Senior Manager, Programs and Partnerships, Africa and Middle East. This is role has a preferred location of Nairobi, Kenya.

The Global Health Equity team advances equitable access to quality care through championing nurses and community health workers.. As Senior Manager, Programs and Partnerships, Africa and Middle East, you will use your leadership and strategic marketing capabilities to deliver meaningful results for people in need in the Africa and Middle East region, with a current focus on Kenya.

Your mission: help address healthcare access challenges and drive programs to champion community health, nursing, and mental health, with a current focus in Kenya.

To be successful in this role, you will manage the co-creation, program design, stakeholder management, grant management and impact evaluation to measure the impact of the programs you manage in reaching J&J’s health equity objectives. You will also maintain regular engagement with internal J&J stakeholders. In order to drive the sustainability and scale of our programs you must identify and main

tain very good relationships with co-funders.

Key Responsibilities:

Program Design, Management and Evaluation

Lead the co-creation and design of new programs aligned to the GHE strategy for J&J Innovative Medicines Portfolio and Nursing for the region.

Engage all implementing partners to ensure timely program submission, follow up and implementation.

Ensure all grant management timelines are met and impact reports completed.

Carry out the quarterly program steering committees for the follow up of the programs.

Represent J&J Global Health Equity in all relevant external engagements to raise the profile of our work and secure collaborations and co-funding.

Internal Engagement

Regularly engage with and build strong relationships with the J&J regional teams to ensure current and future programs are aligned to the latest strategic direction of the company

Engage with and proactively propose assets and opportunities for the amplification of our work with colleagues.

Collaborate with and regularly engage the other regional program managers to understand areas of alignment and potential programmatic collaboration to improve efficiency

Insights and Analytics

Regularly engage with and seek out insights from global and regional best practice that would help improve the quality of our programming.

Regularly propose new innovations based on new insights to regularly improve existing and future programs

Experience and Skills Required:

8+ years experience in business ideally in healthcare-related roles with ideally 5+ years commercial marketing and program management roles experience.

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, public health or biological sciences is required.

Track record designing ground-breaking programs for healthcare professionals and patients with positive outcomes.

Deep understanding of healthcare, the needs of patients and the healthcare providers who serve them.

Able to anticipate trends, envision the future and inspire change.

Highly analytical, able to see through data and identify actionable insights.

Strong strategic ability to think creatively, conceptually and critically to solve meaningful problems.

Creative! You are a never-ending source of innovative ideas to solve bold problems.

Strong ability to understand and work with government.

Developing and managing strong collaborative partnerships internally and externally.

Managing external vendors and agencies to produce quality work.

Outstanding communication and leadership presentation skills.

Able to navigate across a matrixed, global organization and influence by building strong working relationships.

Project management skills, with the ability to prioritize and make difficult tradeoff decisions.

Understanding of health equity challenges facing people in resource-limited settings in the region.

Passion for the important role that J&J can play to help improve access to quality healthcare.

Diligence in grant management and proper follow up of all required administrative processes.

Minimum qualifications

BA/BSc/HND , MBA/MSc/MA

How to apply

Interested and qualified? Go to Johnson & Johnson on www.careers.jnj.com to apply

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