Sr Manager Accelerando Program 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):

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.

Primary 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.

Qualifications / 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.

Preferred:

• Professional project management certification (i.e., PMP, CPM, etc.)
• Hands on experience in Planisware

Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

• Budgeting, Clinical Trial Designs, Clinical Trials, Compliance Management, Consulting, Contract Management, Execution Focus, Fact-Based Decision Making, Give Feedback, Industry Analysis, Laboratory Operations, Organizing, Process Improvements, Project Integration Management, Research and Development, Research Ethics, Technical Credibility