Senior Project Manager, R&D
About The Position
Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Project Manager, R&D, for its Orthopaedics team in a hybrid role in West Chester, Pennsylvania. At DePuy Synthes, this role specializes in new product development processes and metrics and is responsible for all project management aspects of assigned projects. The Senior Project Manager leads complex, cross-functional new product development projects from initiation through product launch and owns the integrated project plan. The role drives execution across R&D/Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing/Operations, Supply Chain, Clinical, Marketing, and other functions. It requires hands-on project leadership, strong planning, risk management, problem-solving, and communication skills, with responsibility for identifying risks and dependencies, facilitating decisions, driving accountability, and reporting project status to teams and leadership. The position focuses heavily on the Trauma business and development of orthopedic medical devices, including implants, instruments, and other hardware. The successful candidate will understand medical device product development well enough to connect technical and business objectives, assess the project impact of technical decisions, and translate complex cross-functional activities into clear, executable plans.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Science, Business, or a related discipline.
- 4–6+ years of progressively responsible project or program management experience, including complex product development projects.
- Demonstrated experience leading cross-functional teams in a regulated product development environment.
- Experience building, owning, and driving integrated project schedules with cross-functional dependencies, milestones, and critical-path activities.
- Experience leading projects through multiple phases of the product development lifecycle.
- Strong project risk, issue, dependency, and schedule management capabilities.
- Ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams in a matrixed organization without direct authority.
- Strong written, verbal, presentation, and leadership communication skills.
- Ability to understand technical information and translate it into project implications, risks, dependencies, and actions.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced technical or business degree.
- PMP Certification, or willingness to achieve it.
- Medical device industry experience.
- Orthopedic medical device experience, particularly in Trauma, implants, fixation systems, surgical instruments, or related hardware products.
- Experience with medical device design controls and structured new product development processes.
- Experience leading products through verification and validation, design transfer, manufacturing readiness, and commercial launch.
- Experience with globally distributed project teams.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, cross-functional new product development projects through multiple phases of the product development lifecycle.
- Own and maintain integrated project plans, including milestones, dependencies, critical path, resources, risks, and key deliverables.
- Drive execution against project scope, schedule, budget, resource, and business commitments.
- Lead cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment, establishing ownership, accountability, priorities, and timing.
- Identify project risks, issues, schedule impacts, resource constraints, and dependencies, and lead mitigation or recovery planning.
- Integrate activities across R&D/Engineering, Quality, Regulatory, Manufacturing/Operations, Supply Chain, Clinical, Marketing, and other functions.
- Ensure project plans incorporate design control, risk management, verification and validation, regulatory, manufacturing readiness, design transfer, and launch activities.
- Facilitate cross-functional alignment, trade-off discussions, decision-making, and issue resolution.
- Establish effective project governance and maintain appropriate project documentation.
- Provide project updates to teams and leadership on project health, milestone performance, critical-path status, risks, issues, decisions, and required actions.
- Escalate significant risks and issues, including potential impacts and recommended actions.
- Ensure compliance with applicable company policies, procedures, quality requirements, and regulatory requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Eligibility to participate in the company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)), subject to plan terms.
- 120 hours of vacation per calendar year, subject to policy and date of hire.
- 40 hours of sick time per calendar year, with different amounts for employees residing in Colorado or Washington.
- Holiday pay, including floating holidays: 13 days per calendar year.
- Up to 40 hours of Work, Personal and Family Time per calendar year.
- Parental Leave: 480 hours within one year of the birth, adoption, or foster care of a child.
- Bereavement Leave: up to 240 hours for an immediate family member and 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year.
- Caregiver Leave: 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period.
- Volunteer Leave: 32 hours per calendar year.
- Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours per calendar year.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
