Director R&D Project Management

Johnson & Johnson Co.; Raynham (MA); Hybrid; USD 164,000 - 283,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Pension

Long-term incentive

Generous PTO

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson seeks a Director of PMO for Hip & Knees R&D, overseeing strategic execution, governance, and portfolio management. Role can be based in Raynham, MA or Warsaw, IN, offering a hybrid work model.

Responsibilities include budget planning, cross-functional leadership, and driving efficiency initiatives across R&D programs. Requires a strong background in project management within medical devices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required; 10+ years in Biomedical/Engineering/R&D contexts.
• PMP certification preferred.
• Strong skills in project and portfolio management within regulated/medical device environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead R&D budget planning and consolidation for Hip & Knee programs.
• Partner with Finance to deliver robust plans and profitability insights.
• Drive governance, cadence, and documentation for PMO activities across R&D.

Skills

Project management

Portfolio management

Change leadership

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

PMP

Biomedical / Engineering field

Job description

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.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function

R&D Project Management

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations

Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America

Job Description

About Orthopaedics

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

We are seeking top talent for a hybrid Director of PMO role based in Raynham, MA, or Warsaw, IN.

Purpose

The Director of PMO for Hips and Knees plays a critical operational role in ensuring the effective execution of our research & development strategy. This leader will be responsible for building and managing the execution of strategic R&D roadmap, initiatives special projects and that deliver our Hip and Knee (joints) core portfolio This leader will own the R&D Hip and knee department operational aspects as GOs performance dashboard and Portfolio dashboard, delivering valuable, real-time insights to leadership into how R&D is progressing towards their vision, goals and objectives. This position plays a critical role in evolving processes, operating models, and talent to strengthen execution excellence.

Job Responsibilities

• Drives R&D Budget planning process/updates, coordination and full consolidation/roll-up for Hips and Knees R&D in partnership with other key leaders/supporting functions to ensure robust, well-coordinated, broadly thought-out budget plan across Hips and Knees R&D.
• Serves as key Hips and Knees R&D liaison with finance business partners. Provides day to day business partnership with Finance to deliver a best in class R&D financial plans that bridges across Hips and Knees.
• Lead Business partner for Hips and Knees R&D on all special project and/or critical business initiatives planning and consolidation for rollup. (i.e. Gross profit, freshness index, NPV values and related)
• Directly responsible for the administration of uniform operating mechanisms, process improvements; effectively manages and owns meeting setup, communications, owns the content and cadence across project groups.
• Shapes & delivers a uniform partnership across Hips and Knees R&D projects for Supply Chain & SCR reviews
• Maintain and supports executional alignment across R&D to supporting functions/COE's.
• Owns input and operational expertise to R&D mgt reviews, including scenario development, trade-off implications and the evaluation/assessment of capital improvement opportunities.
• Responsible to own the Hips and Knees RD LT meeting agendas and cadence. Ensure agenda driven membership, meetings and efficient/effective decision making; Monitor and Track action items and plans to ensure rapid follow-through and progress against commitments.
• Build organizational knowledge of external trends in R&D and best practices in Industry. Work with R&D Leadership to apply where appropriate.
• Responsible to consolidate and provide R&D input required for Senior ad hoc management requests, monthly reporting, quarterly exec Mgt reviews, etc.., as requested. Individual will take input from projects teams and LT and own formatting the consolidation into requested documentation.
• Owns input across Hips and Knees R&D organization in support of shaping G&O's that ensure alignment across R&D to key initiatives, goals and strategies through shared G&O's and report of progress against those across R&D.
• Ownership in shaping and helping drive other strategic special initiatives to improve our operational excellence and impact on innovation and growth.

Approximate Percentage of Time

Major Duties/Responsibilities

20%

1. Enterprise-aligned R&D Vision & Strategy Partner with Hip and Knee R&D LT and key business partners to align to yearly innovation goals from the business and enterprise R&D

30%

2. Business Planning & Special Initiatives

a. Drives R&D Budget planning process/updates, coordination and full consolidation/roll-up for Hip and Knee R&D

b. Improve portfolio decision-making and tradeoffs to ensure Hip and Knee R&D is collectively selecting and fully resourcing the most impactful opportunities.

c. Significantly increase overall pipeline value

30%

• Increase Operational Effectiveness of New Product Development
  • Develop a burn down chart system for NPD projects
  • Develop an "actuals" for time on projects system of measurement
  • Map the current state NPD process, governance, skills, and culture and identify most impactful opportunities to drive improvements to NPD effectiveness
  • Identify the most critical metrics to track NPD performance and measure improvement resulting from change initiatives
  • Lead critical TTM change initiatives to improve the agility and rigor of new product development leading to validated improvement in target metrics

20%

4. Drive Culture of Innovation and Executional Excellence

• Drive cultural change across Hips and Knees R&D, in partnership with Hips and Knees RD LT, and Hips and Knees LTs to increase engagement and business results
• Enhance transparency, connectivity, empowerment and simplification across the organization.
• Organizational talent development and succession management in critical execution skills (e.g. governance, project management and Design To Value) across all leadership and professional levels

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 10 + years of work experience preferred area of study Biomedical, Electrical, Mechanical, Technology Engineering, PMP
• Medical Device/Orthopaedics and/or Regulated Industry Experience
• PMP preferred
• Process optimization for multi-disciplinary systems and capabilities in regulated industries
• Expert detailed orientation and organization
• Strong project & Portfolio management skills in R&D organizations
• Strong change leadership skills
• Solid collaboration skills, in complex environments
• Strong demonstration of succession management and accelerated innovation and growth in the R&D organizations.

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals.

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 under 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.

Preferred Skills

Agility Jumps, Business Alignment, Continuous Improvement, Mentorship, Performance Measurement, Process Control, Program Management, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Reporting, Project Schedule, Quality Control (QC), Research and Development, Risk Management, Tactical Planning, Technical Credibility

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$164,000.00 - $282,900.00

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