Staff Project Manager

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

R&D Project Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Milpitas, California, United States of America

Job Description:

About Vision
Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.
Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime. 
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision is looking to hire Staff Project Manager for Milpitas, CA location. 
 
Position Overview:
The Project Manager will lead and deliver global new projects through the JJSV Product Delivery Process and will be accountable for guiding the cross-functional teams to ensure strategic alignment and execution of the project deliverables, on schedule, within budget, and to the required quality / reliability standards. 
The Project Manager will apply best practices and tools to deliver new products consistent with business’s strategy and objectives. They are technically strong individuals who works directly with the Technical Leads, Functional Managers, and Business Leaders to identify and coordinate resolution of technical and project risks. 
The Project Manager provides timely and effective communication of project progress, advocates for resource and budgetary needs, and employs a leadership style that inspires teamwork, high standards, compliance and overall success in project results for the benefit of the customer and the company.
Adheres to environmental policy, procedures, and supports department environmental objectives.

 Responsibilities:
•    Responsible for and compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.
•    Develop and ensure all deliverables (project and technical) are well understood by the project core team.
•    Lead project team to appropriately challenge project assumptions and thoroughly identify the project and technical risks.
•    Prepare project schedule, ensuring timing estimates from the cross-functional team are accurate and appropriately challenged, including buffers to mitigate risks.
•    Organize and deliver presentations to management, including the Global New Product Process at stage gate meetings.
•    Execute high quality, integrated cross-functional project plans including development of project charter, schedule, milestones, budget, risks, issues and resources needed.
•    Be the primary point of contact for the project and interface with Technical Leader on technical issues, Functional Manager on resource issues and Executive Sponsor on project issues.
•    Facilitate cross-functional communication between R&D, Marketing, Operations, Quality Assurance and Clinical/ Regulatory organizations.
•    Lead project team meetings, develops and manages agenda, minutes, and follow up action items.
•    Resolve issues, conflicts and project bottlenecks as they arise, negotiating effectively with others.  Drive recovery effort so issues do not impact overall schedule.
•    Ensure projects run in compliance with Design Control Regulations.
•    Supervise the activities of other lower-level personnel.
 
Qualifications:
Required:
•    BS in Engineering or Science fields is required.
•    Minimum 4 + years of professional experience with emphasis in Project Management in a regulated environment (preferably medical de