Sr. Manager Project Management Americas

**Job Function**:
Project/Program Management Group
**Job Sub Function**:
Project/Program Management
**Job Category**:
Professional
**All Job Posting Locations**:
São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil
- At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities, and forward progress. As the world’s largest and most broadly-based healthcare company, we are committed to using our reach and size for good. We strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body, and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere. Every day, our more than 130,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science, and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity._
- At_ Engineering & Property Services (E&PS) we look after all J&J buildings around the world providing end-to-end services from Real Estate, Engineering & Strategic Project Delivery to Facilities Management. We have a profound influence on the entire J&J Enterprise, providing innovative workplaces where our employees can collaborate and grow, and delivering flexible site solutions t_hat_ enable our business to best serve our important customers and patients. _
- Learning adaptability through internal and external education and being responsible for commissioning, qualification, and validation of FDA and other agency supervised facilities. This includes technology transfer and regulations governing product manufacturing.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead facility-related projects, including infrastructure upgrades, laboratory renovations, and compliance initiatives.
- Builds collaboration across other functional areas and key customers.
- Build strong relationships with diverse customers, including operations leaders and executives. Aligns Core and Extended team to deliver FPO's.
- Craft and deliver compelling presentations, tailored to various audiences, that articulate business impacts, risks, and justifications for capital investments.
- Lead prioritization discussions with customers, balance operational needs, compliance requirements, and financial constraints.
- Develop and implement comprehensive project plans, encompassing scope, schedules, budgets, and risk mitigation strategies. Responsible for reporting against project Objectives.
- Establishes Key Performance Indicators and puts plans in place to meet and identify areas for improvement.
- Facilitates the project intake process, assisting in solutioning and how projects should meet the Business Need. Prepares for Stage Gates, and the development of the selected option for Capital Approval Request (CAR) approval.
- Resolves appropriate project functions, resources, and strategies for the Organization. and tools via a Project Execution Plan, based on the complexity of the project business strategies, policy, regulations, and all local and national legislation.
- Develops Risk Management methodology to identify, evaluate, and handle project risks, including resource issues and other obstacles. Communicate risks associated with deferring or accelerating projects to senior business leaders.
- Facilitate scenario planning to help customers understand the implications of project decisions on business operations and long-term goals.
- Facilitates and coordinates the design, execution, and close out of all project-related activities including handling internal resources and the procurement of third-party contractors, suppliers, and consultants and supervising the project against the plan to ensure delivery of Final Project Objectives.
- Identifies potential project scope and/or cost changes and handle the requests with the Sponsor, Core, and Extended teams.
- Facilitates Project Close Out activities ensuring operational handover archiving, financial project close and collation of benchmarking and lessons Learned. Ensure continuous improvement via lessons collection and lessons adoption.
- Provide strong leadership and direction to the project team, including project managers, master schedulers, finance controllers, and document controllers.
- Develop a workload balancing framework to assign projects based on skills, availability, and project complexity.
- Mentor team members on standard methodologies for project management, including partner communication, risk management, and timeline optimization.
- Establish clear processes for tracking and reporting project progress, ensuring timely delivery of real-time updates to customers on project performance and risks.
- Implement tools and processes to streamline resource allocation, improve data integrity, and reduce project delays.
- Drive innovation in project delivery, integrating standard processes, sustainability initiatives, and innovative technology.

**Education & Experience**

**Education**:

- Bachelor of Science degree in Project Management, Engineering, or Architecture required. Master’s degree preferred.
- Project Managem