Job Function:
Project/Program Management Group
Job Sub Function:
R&D Project Management
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:
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.
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We are searching for the best talent for an Associate Director, Accelerando Program Leader in Spring House, PA, Raritan, NJ, or Titusville, NJ.
Please note that this role is also available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):
Beerse, Belgium - Requisition Number: R-087218
United States - Requisition Number: R-086237
Remember, whether you apply to one or all requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.
Purpose:
The Associate Director, Accelerando Program Leader is accountable for accelerating the delivery of complex clinical development programs through integrated planning, proactive risk management, cross-functional orchestration, and strategic decision support. The Accelerando Program Leader identifies and protects the critical path, reduces uncertainty early, drives enterprise-level decision making, and ensures alignment between development strategy and operational execution.
They will collect, consolidate, and report budget, timeline and FTE actuals vs. plan and will identify potential issues for the trial through active management of the study schedule. They enable decision making by developing scenarios that reveal potential cost, timeline, and budget impacts. They play a key role in maintaining visibility to and documentation of current plans, scenarios under consideration, and changes in direction for study level plans. They are also responsible for ensuring planning systems align with the compound development plan and the integrated project schedule.
Your will be responsible for:
- Create, maintain, and manage integrated study schedules in Microsoft Project including key events, roadmaps, and critical-path visualizations.
- Identify opportunities to accelerate development timelines while maintaining quality and compliance.
- Leverage digital planning platforms, integrated timelines, predictive analytics, dashboards, and program management tools to improve predictability and execution.
- Align clinical trial timelines with integrated clinical and compound development plans.
- Develop budget, timeline, and FTE forecasts; create scenario analyses in Planisware to support decision-making.
- Identify and proactively manage risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, and dependencies.
- Collect, consolidate, and report financial, timeline, and resource metrics for governance reviews and external funding partnerships.
- Maintain study governance documentation, After Action Review and lessons learned.
- Support governance reviews, investment decisions, and portfolio prioritization activities.
Qualifications / Requirements:
Education:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Life Sciences, Nursing, Pharmacy, Business, or related discipline is required.
Required:
- Minimum 8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, healthcare, biotechnology, or related industries.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex clinical development programs.
- Knowledge of project management methodologies, systems, and tools.
- Demonstrated expertise in MS Project.
- Proficiency with technology enabling tools including Visio, Excel, etc.
- Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, analytical, and decision-making skills.
- Experience mentoring/coaching others.
- Experience operating in matrixed global organizations and leading without authority.
- Demonstrated ability to be creative and flexible to change/improve working environment in broad context.
Preferred:
- Professional project management certification (i.e., PMP, CPM, etc.)
- Hands on experience in Planisware
The anticipated base pay range for this position in the US is $137,000 to $235,000.
The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
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 - Sick time - 40 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
- Condolence Leave – 30 days for an immediate family member: 5 days for an extended family member
- Caregiver Leave – 10 days
- Volunteer Leave – 4 days
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours
For additional general information on company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
This job posting is anticipated to close on July 14, 2026. The Company may however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.
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