Director, Strategic Programs (Titusville, NJ)

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:

Strategy & Corporate Development

Job Sub Function:

Strategic Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Director, Strategic Programs (Titusville, NJ) 

Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is recruiting for a Director, Strategic Programs, to be located in Titusville, NJ. 

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 

 

This Director position will report into Sr. Director, Strategic Programs and will provide strategic project, program, and change management to seamlessly execute strategies that result in value creation. Key focus areas will include project/program management (including project planning, execution tracking, and reporting as well as communication management, stakeholder management, and risk identification) and robust change management. This position will also play a leadership role in process improvements and transformation efforts for NALT initiatives and therefore requires the expert leadership of cross-functional project teams and partnership with senior leaders to ensure key projects are aligned with business objectives and meeting the defined KPIs. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Function as the E2E Project and Change Leader for highly complex projects/ initiatives from conception to completion. 

• Employ best-in-class project management methodologies including chartering, scoping, development and maintenance of the integrated project plan, leading project team meetings, and customized reporting of project metrics. 

• Lead high-performing project team to ensure seamless alignment toward and achievement of the project objectives within scope, on-time, and within budget. 

• Utilize formal change management methodologies (e.g. PROSCI) to ensure adoption, absorption, and normalization of project outputs. 

• Function as an expert in project risk management and contingency planning, including risk registry, impact analyses, and mitigation design. 

• Maintain a strategic mindset when analyzing complex information to understand impacts to TAs, Centers of Excellence (CoE) and be able to effectively lead through complexity. 

• Supervise critical metrics/KPIs and their impact on the project and/or business and maintain confidential communications of these indicators to the senior leadership 

• Employ robust stakeholder management across senior leaders and workstream leads with particular attention to touchpoints within TA/CoEs and across teams.