Director, Program Delivery Leader

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The Director, Program Delivery Leader (PDL) is accountable for the operational execution of the Clinical Development Plan (CDP). As a disease area thought partner, the PDL is responsible for the development of the program-level operational strategy and ensuring cross-functional alignment, identifying, and resolving program-level risks that may impact timelines or budgets.

Primary responsibilities:

• Responsible for the development of the program-level operational strategy and ensuring alignment across functions, Delivery Units and DAS areas / TA / portfolio (e.g., E2E connectivity from Global Development and non-Global Development partners, share lessons learned for program-level consistency, and monitor KPIs to track program-level success).

• Accountable for the delivery of the operational strategy in alignment with the Clinical Development Plan, ensuring alignment with business goals and TA / clinical delivery and trial delivery objectives (including resourcing, budget, and change control, partnering with CDT sub-teams, timeline creation).

• Attend CDT and co-lead CT in collaboration with clinical leader.

• Lead scenario planning and mitigate program-level risks that may impact timelines / budget, ensure appropriate quality oversight, and appropriately escalate issues on clinical teams and to CDT, Quality and functional leadership.

• Ability to effectively communicate the operational strategy, and defend the operational plan and costs associated to CDT, TA leadership and at governance meetings (e.g. TA governance, DC/IC).

• Lead and ensure inspection readiness for program through risk identification and readiness review.

• Provide leadership during Health Authority inspections and on the identification of risks and mitigation plans at the program level for key issues. Support L&A activities when appropriate.

• Mentor & support onboarding of new team members, particularly those in Trial Management.

• Foster employee engagement, inclusion, and Credo Behaviors.

Qualifications

Education:

• Minimum of Bachelor's degree is required, preferred areas of study include Life Sciences (e.g., Biology, Chemistry, Biochemistry, Nursing, Pharmacy)

Required:

• Minimum of 10 years experience in the Pharmaceutical, Healthcare, or Biotechnology industry

• Experience in and knowledge of the pharmaceutical development process

• Strong experience in early clinical pharmaceutical development

• Deep understanding, experience, and ability to manage clinical trial operations

• Must possess excellent leadership skills and proven ability to foster team productivity and cohesiveness

• Experience leading without authority and in multi-functional matrixed and global environments

• Excellent decision-making, analytical and strong financial management skills

• Operate and execute with limited supervision

• Experience mentoring/coaching others

• Strong project planning/management, communication and presentation skills

• Travel up to 10-15% of the time, defined by business needs.

The anticipated base pay range for this position in the US is $160,000 to $276,000.

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.

Employees and/or eligible dependents may be 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.

Employees may be 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.

Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:

• Vacation - up to 120 hours per calendar year

• Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington - up to 56 hours per calendar year

• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays - up to 13 days per calendar year

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

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 February 17, 2025. 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.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and 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, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.