Director, Business Process Optimization

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:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family R&D Operations

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

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.

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Director, Business Process Optimization to be located in Titusville, NJ; Raritan, NJ or Springhouse, PA.

This position will be responsible for leading complex projects, completing the top priority initiatives aligned to the Global Development strategy. The position may also be called upon to drive process performance assessments and continuous improvement initiatives employing internal and external insights to solve key business problems, impacting program and study delivery. This role will be required to drive high-priority initiatives, develop cross-functional teamwork, and adapt to evolving business needs in alignment with GD strategic business plan.

You will be responsible for:

• Lead projects/teams in alignment with overall program goals, supervising and leading the coordination of activities within a team, driving execution of program and project plans, and proactively anticipating and presenting concerns/delays in the program to develop risk assessments, drive improvements, and align partners to contingency plans

• Maintain an overview of program status and issues and proactively communicate progress, risks, issues, or changes that may impact quality, timelines, and/or budget; provide program-level updates to partners as requested.

• Lead all aspects of budgets, resources, and timelines within or across projects/programs, ensure review, presentation, and approval of initial plans, and lead the plan through the program's lifecycle by presenting changes to partners, sponsors, and governance, as appropriate.

• Perform partner identification and management, dependency mapping, and oversight throughout project lifecycle.

• Mentor and guide team members and ensure they have all the resources required to complete their assigned tasks.

• Effectively connect with sponsors, leadership and business partners within and outside of Global Development on project and process status and requirements for assigned projects.

• Network with internal and external experts to exchange learning, good practices and leverage industry benchmarking. Establish strong relationships with critical business partners across Global Development and outside of Global Development to ensure alignment.

• Deliver on the connectivity of systems and supporting technology associated with projects and business processes.

• Apply an innovative and continuous improvement mentality within and across the Innovative Health pipeline of capabilities, processes, and the organization.

• Shape the continuous learning and knowledge management support structure for the process value stream.

Principal Relationships:

Partners closely with Global Development leaders and team members, as well as with R&D Quality, JJT, and Data Science. Additionally, they will have key interfaces with business partners in Global Medical Safety, Procurement, Legal, HCC, Therapeutic Areas, and Clinical Supply Chain primarily driven by the nature of the assigned projects.  Moreover, contacts and collaboration with External Vendor groups (directly or indirectly) may be required.

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