Job Function
Project/Program Management Group
Job Sub Function
R&D Project Management
Job Category
Professional
All Job Posting Locations
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Job Description
This role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. Feel free to apply for the posting in the country you are based in:
- Belgium, Netherlands – Requisition Number: R-068642
- United Kingdom – Requisition Number: R-069530
- Switzerland – Requisition Number: R-069529
Applications for any of these requisitions will be considered as a single submission.
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.
Role Summary
Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking a Clinical Project Manager to join our team located in Beerse, Belgium, Leiden (the Netherlands), Maidenhead (UK), or Allschwil, Switzerland. The role is hybrid; office presence three times a week is required.
Principal Responsibilities
- Create, manage, and maintain an integrated study schedule in MS Project, including KEMs, roadmaps, and critical path visualisation aligned in PLW.
- Assure clinical timelines in PLW align to the MSP schedule and coordinate the integrated clinical plan with CDT project plans. Ensure proper resource demand is reflected.
- Develop scenarios in PLW for budget, timeline, and FTE forecasting, while generating situational operational scenarios.
- Collect, consolidate, and report financial, timeline and resource data for governance approvals and external funding partnerships. Manage scope control, FTE and OOP variances.
- Document key decisions, actions, risks, issues, and lessons learned, and maintain trial governance documentation.
- Provide support for team‑based reporting (i.e., the PLW team list).
Additional Responsibilities (May Include)
- Mentor & support onboarding of new team members, particularly those in Trial Management.
- Foster employee engagement, inclusion, and Credo behaviours.
Education and Experience Requirements
- BS degree or equivalent; preferred areas of study include Life Sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Nursing, Pharmacy).
- Minimum of 4 years of experience in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare or related industries.
- Strong knowledge of Planisware.
- Strong project management experience (preferably in clinical trial management).
- Must possess excellent leadership skills and proven ability to foster team productivity and cohesiveness.
- Experience leading without authority in multi‑functional, matrixed and global environments.
- Excellent decision‑making, analytical and strong financial management skills are essential to this position.
- Operate and execute with limited supervision. Experience mentoring/coaching others. Ability to support and participate in the hiring, training, development, and evaluation of staff on a regular basis.
- Strong project planning/management, communication and presentation skills are required.
- Knowledge of Clinical Research Operations with 2–3 years of experience managing multiple aspects of the execution of global clinical trials (Phases I–IV) is preferred.
Preferred Skills
- Agility Jumps
- Business Alignment
- Coaching
- Collaborating
- Continuous Improvement
- Operational Excellence
- Performance Measurement
- Process Control
- Process Improvements
- Project Management Methodology (PMM)
- Project Management Office (PMO)
- Project Reporting
- Project Schedule
- Quality Control (QC)
- Research and Development
- Tactical Planning
- Technical Credibility
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