Associate Director, Project

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions 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.
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Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s): Belgium R-109413, United States of America R-105508 Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

Job Function

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function

Project/Program Management

Job Category

Professional

All Job Posting Locations

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description

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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

We are searching for the best talent for Associate Director, Project & Portfolio Leader. Candidates must already have authorization to work in the country of employment. Immigration sponsorship and relocation support are not available for this position. Candidates authorized to work pursuant to a short-term status (e.g., F-1) who require future immigration sponsorship are not eligible.

Purpose

The Project & Portfolio Leader is responsible for establishing and leading the portfolio governance framework, driving strategic portfolio planning and execution, ensuring alignment of investments to CSC priorities, and providing comprehensive oversight of project performance, financial management, resource utilization, and benefits realization. This role partners across the organization to enable effective decision‑making, governance excellence, and successful delivery of initiatives while building project management capabilities and leading a global team.

You’ll be responsible for: Establish, lead, and continuously enhance the project and portfolio governance framework to enable effective decision making, prioritization, resource allocation, and strategic execution across the function. Own the end‑to‑end Project Governance Process, ensuring consistent deployment, adoption, and compliance across all functions, while driving transparency, accountability, and execution excellence. Lead project portfolio planning, review, and reporting activities throughout key business cycles, including Business Plan (BP), June Update (JU), November Update (NU), Long‑Range Financial Plan (LRFP), and other strategic planning processes. Partner with functional leaders to ensure the project portfolio remains aligned with CSC strategic priorities, organizational objectives, investment strategies, and evolving business needs. Provide comprehensive portfolio oversight through the measurement, monitoring, and reporting of portfolio health, including capital and operating expenditures, resource capacity, risks, dependencies, milestone achievement, benefits realization, and overall project performance. Develop and deliver executive‑level portfolio analytics, dashboards, and insights that enable data‑driven decision making and proactive portfolio management. Drive continuous evaluation of the project pipeline, ensuring visibility to emerging opportunities, resource demands, project interdependencies, execution risks, and mitigation strategies. Facilitate governance forums, portfolio reviews, and leadership discussions to support prioritization decisions, investment approvals, risk management, and strategic trade‑off assessments. Establish and harmonize project management standards, methodologies, tools, templates, and best practices to create a scalable and consistent project management capability across the organization. Build organizational project and portfolio management capabilities through training, coaching, and the implementation of stand