Associate Director, Accelerando Program Leader

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 jnj.com.

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Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

R&D Project Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

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.
 

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for an Associate Director, Accelerando Program Leader in Beerse, Belgium.

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):

United States - Requisition Number: R-086237

Beerse, Belgium - Requisition Number: R-087218
 

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

 

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Required Skills:

 

 

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€96,000.00 - €165,025.00

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.