Clinical Project Manager, Senior Analyst

Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson · Pharma · Spring House, PA +4

This role is a Clinical Project Manager, Senior Analyst at Johnson & Johnson, focused on R&D Operations within Clinical Trial Project Management. The primary responsibilities include creating and managing integrated study schedules using MS Project and Planisware, forecasting budget, timelines, and FTEs, managing scope control, and documenting key decisions and risks. The role requires a Bachelor's degree and at least 4 years of experience in pharmaceutical or healthcare industries, with strong project management, leadership, financial management, and communication skills. Knowledge of Clinical Research Operations and experience managing global clinical trials are preferred.

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

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • Minimum of 4 years in Pharmaceutical, Healthcare or related industries
  • Strong Project Management experience
  • Excellent leadership skills
  • Proven ability to foster team productivity and cohesiveness
  • Experience leading without authority
  • Experience in multi-functional matrixed and global environments
  • Excellent decision-making skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Strong financial management skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Strong 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)
  • Clini

What the JD emphasized

  • Planisware
  • MS Project