Sr Manager Accelerando Program Lead
About The Position
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 jnj.com As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit. About Innovative Medicine Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow. Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine 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): Beerse, Belgium - Requisition Number: R-088503 Spring House PA, Raritan/Titusville NJ, United States - Requisition Number: R-089267 Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission. Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking a Senior Manager, Accelerando Program Leader to join our team located in either of these locations Beerse, Belgium, Spring House PA, Raritan/Titusville NJ, United States. Office presence is required 3 times a week. The Senior Manager, Accelerando Program Leader is accountable for accelerating the delivery of complex clinical development programs through integrated planning, proactive risk management, cross functional orchestration, and strategic decision support. The Accelerando Program Leader identifies and protects the critical path, reduces uncertainty early, drives enterprise-level decision making, and ensures alignment between development strategy and operational execution. The Accelerando Program Management Leader combines project management expertise with advanced leadership capabilities, consulting with project teams to accelerate project execution and increase probability of success.
Requirements
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline is required.
- Minimum 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, or related industries.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex clinical development programs.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, systems, and tools.
- Demonstrated expertise in MS Project.
- Proficiency with technology enabling tools including Visio, Excel, etc.
- Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Experience mentoring/coaching others.
- Experience operating in matrixed global organizations and leading without authority.
- Demonstrated ability to be creative and flexible to change/improve working environment in broad context.
Nice To Haves
- Professional project management certification (i.e., PMP, CPM, etc.)
- Hands on experience in Planisware
Responsibilities
- Create, maintain, and manage integrated study schedules in Microsoft Project including key events, roadmaps, and critical-path visualizations.
- Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines while maintaining quality and compliance.
- Leverage digital planning platforms, integrated timelines, predictive analytics, dashboards, and program management tools to improve predictability and execution.
- Align clinical trial timelines with integrated clinical and compound development plans.
- Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies.
- Maintain study governance documentation, After Action Review and lessons learned.
- Support governance reviews, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization activities.
- Partner with project and compound development leadership as a trusted advisor to accelerate delivery of high-priority development programs and support strategic decision making.
- Facilitate alignment among project leaders, therapeutic area leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders to address barriers, drive accountability, and enable successful program execution.
- Conduct critical path analyses and objective threat-and-opportunity assessments to identify acceleration opportunities, remove obstacles, reduce execution risk, and improve development predictability.
- Develop and evaluate strategic scenarios and business cases supporting risk mitigation investments, acceleration opportunities, and key development decisions.
- Drive implementation and adoption of project management best practices, innovative methodologies, and enabling technologies that improve development effectiveness and efficiency.
- Identify process, organizational, and cross-functional execution gaps and partner with stakeholders and line management to implement sustainable improvements that enhance program delivery.
- Support organizational readiness and change-management activities required to execute development strategies effectively across global teams.
- Establish, monitor, and communicate program performance metrics, benchmarking insights, lessons learned, and continuous improvement opportunities to project leadership and governance bodies.
- Build and leverage internal and external networks to identify emerging industry practices, benchmark performance, and promote knowledge sharing across development teams and strategic partners.
- Monitor advancements in project management, leadership practices, digital technologies, and development strategies, integrating relevant innovations to strengthen Accelerando capabilities and accelerate delivery.
- Champion the Accelerando approach and contribute to the evolution of program acceleration capabilities across the development organization.
Benefits
- Consolidated retirement plan (pension)
- Savings plan (401(k))
- Long-term incentive program
- 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
- Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 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
