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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Senior Project Manager, A&D Operations located in New Brunswick, 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/.

We are seeking motivated professionals to take responsibility for managing complex Acquisition and Divestiture projects from transition planning to conclusion. The successful candidate will engage with Team Leaders to accomplish project objectives through detailed planning, deploying standard methodologies and subject matter expertise, risk identification and mitigation, resource alignment, evaluation of priorities and establishment of robust governance and critical issues reporting protocols. Additionally, the ability to interact effectively and deploy global methodology to support and monitor regional project teams and successfully integrate diverse teams is key. The role will report to the Senior Director, A&D Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Project Manager, A&D Operations, will have the following responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Business leaders, business functions, and functional project managers to deliver program goals and value creation through effective project execution

• Collaborate, challenge and influence peers, subordinates and senior management.

• Utilize project management skills to establish clarity in project roles, identify and balance resource requirements, define project deliverables, minimize risks and measure outcomes

• Have accountability for a project team and may have direct accountability for contract resources.

• Consult and provide advice, facilitate discussion and resolves conflict; establish trust; build and use cross-functional relationships to accomplish work objectives.

• Drive key project delivery activities to ensure a timely and successful attainment of project objectives

• Understand and communicate within a project to facilitate effective execution.

• Manage project governance processes supporting the Project Leadership. Understand how and when to make a choice; how and when to raise issues to higher levels.

• Analyze risks and future impact of decisions. Enable effective and timely decisions and takes independent action in pursuit of priorities.

• Facilitate and troubleshoots problems associated with developing complex functional integration or separation plans; or fully integrated project plans.

• Provide highly skilled technical and management advice and assistance to functional management and personnel.

• Support various project status review and planning meetings.

• Establishes and maintains liaison as required with Stakeholders, Business Partners, Steering Committees, Integration Teams, PMO and Functional COP’s.

• Assist in developing functional plans, goals and objectives.

• Implement lessons learned for each project and incorporate into enterprise processes for future improvements.

• Forge and maintain external networks to learn and inform improved practices.

Qualifications:

Required:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree required
  • A minimum of 7 years of business experience in Project Management within complex or large-scale projects is required
  • Experience running diverse teams (ex, 10-15 people) required
  • Strategic thinker with an ability to dive into details is required.
  • Strong written and oral communication skills, including solid presentation abilities, are required.
  • Ability to support development of business cases within a project in consultation with business partners is required.
  • Ability to lead, collaborate, challenge and influence peers, subordinates and senior management is required.
  • Ability to facilitate discussion, progress effectively and lead team as needed, required.
  • Ability to supervise and lead day-to-day activities of project teams, third party partners and contact resources is required.
  • Demonstrate accountability for flawless project execution is required.
  • Demonstrate clear bias for action and a sense of urgency is required.
  • Superior teamwork abilities as well as demonstrated experience building collaboration are required.
  • Agility to work with varying levels of complexity or ambiguity is required.
  • Program Management Professional (PMP) or Prince2 certification is highly desirable.
  • Position is located in New Brunswick, NJ with approximately 10-20% travel required (domestic and global) depending on deal characteristics.

Preferred:

• Experience working in global acquisitions & divestitures (strongly preferred)
• Previous experiences within supply chain, HR, IT and Finance preferred
• Experience planning and implementing change management for projects with global, multi-regional, cross company impact, or large-scale user impact is preferred.
• Financial Management for project budget > $10MM (preferred).
• Understanding of large IT systems and programs (preferred).

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers . Internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Decision Making, Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Business Alignment, Continuous Improvement, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Leadership, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Statement of Work (SOW), Technical Credibility

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$122,000.00 - $212,750.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).



This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.



Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

Vacation –120 hours per calendar year

Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year

Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year

Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year

Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child

Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year

Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days

Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year


For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits