Senior Manager Project Management

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:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Job Description:

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 

The Sr Manager, Project Management is accountable for the performance of assigned larger, more complex and strategic projects for Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine in EMEA with an initial assignment to the CAR-T program in Ghent, Belgium. 

The role will be leading such projects through Flawless Project Execution, the oversight and flexible application of scalable best practice Project Delivery Processes required thru the ideation, definition, execution and assessment phases; including, but not limited to driving innovation to ensure safety and appropriate quality, reducing cost and schedule, utilizing learning adoption internally and externally, overseeing commissioning, qualification and validation of FDA and other agency regulated facilities, technology transfer and regulations governing product manufacturing.

This role is responsible for managing and ensuring projects progress throughout the project leading the expedition of key activities across function, finding solutions to key problems, and communicating project progress, issues and solutions to management and to the project team.

An ideal candidate for this role will have good experience of leading all aspects of Project Management end to end in medium to high complexity capital projects. They will also have experience and knowledge of process engineering and product in pharmaceutical environment.

Key relationships include collaboration of with E&PS Functions (Real Estate and FM and Service Partners) CCFS, EHS, ITS and affiliate Engineering Groups across other functional areas, establishing effective working relationships with partners and key stakeholders in the business.

You will be responsible for:

• Takes Project Lead on Projects at appropriate stages of Ideation, Design, Execution and Assessment

• Builds collaboration across other functional areas with Business Partners

• Builds alignment with Sponsor, and shares management of Key Stakeholders, aligns Core and Extended team to deliver the Final Project Objectives

• Builds communication with the Sponsor and agrees on communication to Key Stakeholders on all aspects of projects, establishes project communication plan and prepares and presents information for Key stakeholders in alignment with Sponsor

• Manages the project planning, tracking and reporting against project Key Deliverables and Final Project Objectives

• Establishes Key Performance Indicators and puts plans are in place to meet and identify areas for improvement

• Facilitates the project intake process, assisting in solutioning and how projects should meet the Business Need, Prepares for Stage Gates, and the development of the selected option for CAR approval

• Determines appropriate project functions, resources and strategies for the Project Delivery Processes and tools via a Project Execution Plan, based on the complexity of the project business strategies, policy, regulations and all local and national legislation