Clinical Project Manager, Senior Analyst

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium +1

This role is for a Clinical Project Manager, Senior Analyst at Johnson & Johnson, focusing on R&D Operations within Clinical Trial Project Management. The primary responsibility is to create and manage integrated project schedules, budgets, and timelines for clinical trials using tools like MS Project and Planisware. The role involves forecasting, reporting financial and resource data, managing scope, and documenting key decisions and risks. While the company is in healthcare and may use AI tools, this specific role is centered on traditional project management within clinical research operations, not on building or directly managing AI/ML models or systems.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create, manage, and maintain integrated study schedule in MS Project, including Key Event Maps, Roadmaps, and critical path visualization aligning in Planisware.
  2. Assure Clinical timelines in Planisware align to MS Project schedule and coordinate the integrated clinical plan with Clinical Development Team project plans. Ensure proper resource demand is reflected.
  3. Develop scenarios in Planisware for budget, timeline, and FTE forecasting, while generating situational operational scenarios.
  4. Collect, consolidate, and report financial, timeline and resource data for governance approvals and external funding partnerships. Manage scope control, FTE and Out of Pocket variances.
  5. Document key decisions, actions, risks, issues, and lessons learned, as well as maintain trial governance documentation.

Skills

Required

  • Minimum of 4 years in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare or related industries
  • Strong Project Management experience
  • 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
  • Strong communication and presentation skills

Nice to have

  • Knowledge of Clinical Research Operations
  • 2-3 years of experience managing multiple aspects of the execution of global clinical trials (Phases I-IV)
  • Analytical Reasoning
  • Clinical Research and Regulations
  • Clinical Trial Designs
  • Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS)
  • Clinical Trials
  • Communication
  • Data Savvy
  • Laboratory Operations
  • Organizing
  • Problem Solving
  • Productivity Planning
  • Professional Ethics
  • Project Integration Management
  • Quality Assurance (QA)
  • Regulatory Compliance
  • Research and Development
  • Research Ethics
  • Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)