LATAM CAR-T Project Management Lead - Fixed Term (12 months)

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions 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. Learn more at jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Project/Program Management Group

Job Sub Function:

Project/Program Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, São Paulo, Brazil

Job Description:

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions 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.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.

We are searching for the best talent for this LATAM CAR-T Project Management Lead - Fixed Term (12 months), based in São Paulo or São José dos Campos.

PURPOSE OF POSITION:

• Deliver business goals in asssuring capability, security of supply, compliance and transparence to the processes and optimum value for money

• Build external and internal stakeholder trust, preference and advocacy

• Serve as a trust advisor for Leaders and other areas

 RESPONSIBILITIES/PRINCIPAL DUTIES (Essential Functions)

• In charge of project management (PMO) for LATAM CARVYKTI Launch and Business as usual new initiatives ensuring all deliverables and actions are on track providing its visibility and risk management to leadership team

• Lead LATAM project governance routines, ensuring clear visibility of milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and escalations for regional and local leadership teams.

• Manage complex stakeholder networks across Commercial, Supply Chain, Quality, Regulatory, Medical, IT, Finance, external partners, and local affiliates, ensuring alignment and execution across LATAM.

• Drive change adoption across LATAM by translating strategic objectives into practical routines, stakeholder engagement actions, and sustainable operational behaviors.

• Support the design and continuously improvement of the LATAM CAR-T operating model, connecting process mapping, documentation, compliance requirements, systems, logistics flows, and business readiness.

• Prepare executive-level updates, dashboards, decision materials, and structured communications to support leadership alignment and timely decision-making.

• Exercise solid project skills combined with strong business acumen and in depth analytical skills and leverage business knowledge to drive business process improvements.

• Support the training plan, all training deliverables, and successful training execution routing documents for formal approval in the document management system.

• Connect with commercial operations CTMs (Core Team Members) & ETMs (Extended Team Members) & third parties (e.g: Local 4PL, World Courier ) to ensure a flawless CART launch (Understand local requirements, assess, discover & implement process) as well as transition to BAU (Business as Usual) - including metrics implementation;

• Accountable for workshops organization & leadership

• Ensure all change controls are executed as planned and concluded on time;

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EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 5 years in industry or CRO (Clinical Research Organization) / CMO (Clinical Management Organization) for Advanced Therapies clinical or commercial operations (E.G: Car-t, Gene Therapy and Molecular Therapy)

• Bachelor Degree: Engineering, Supply chain Management, administration or Science Field (Pharmacist, biomedical and others)

• Project Management (PMO) experience

• FPX certification is highly desired

• Good communication skills on all levels (bottom up & top down)

• Fluent in Spanish & English required; Portuguese is highly desirable for LATAM scope.

• Strong business acumen and understanding of the end to end supply chain including order to cash, Logistics, customer experience and IT;

• Strong leadership, collaboration, influencing and interpersonal skills

• High interpersonal capability to build trust, influence without authority, navigate complex stakeholder dynamics, and align cross-functional teams across LATAM.

• Proven ability to influence without formal authority, create alignment among senior stakeholders, and move cross-functional teams from discussion to execution.

• Experience working in a highly matrixed, regional, & global organization.

• Knowledge of quality/compliance, supply chain, operations, and logistics is highly desired.

• Analytical and process oriented, with strong decision making / problem-solving skills.

• Process Excellence skills & experience is preferred

• Quick to learn

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agility Jumps, Analytics Insights, Conflict Resolution, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL), Organizational Project Management, Persistence and Tenacity, Process Oriented, Project Management Methodology (PMM), Project Management Office (PMO), Project Management Tools, Project Reporting, Statement of Work (SOW), Team Management