Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, External Manufacturing (EM) Strategy & Business Support!
This position is located (onsite/hybrid) in Horsham, Pennsylvania. Alternate onsite/hybrid locations may be considered in other Innovative Medicine Supply Chain (IMSC) hub sites such as Titusville or Raritan, New Jersey; Zug or Schaffhausen, Switzerland; Beerse, Belgium; or Cork, Ireland.
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The EM Strategy & Business Support Director is responsible for strategy development and deployment for biotherapeutics external manufacturing across drug substance, drug product, and packaging including performing detailed strategic analyses, enabling the implementation of strategic vision, and integrating key strategy elements needed to transform the business linked to ongoing priorities. The Director will connect with the business transformation team spanning all modalities, as well as with the internal biotherapeutics network. They will interact with key operational and functional leaders, as well as individually lead critical initiatives, and will communicate, influence, and manage across the business.
Key Responsibilities:
- Co-Develop, consolidate, and influence the overall external manufacturing biotherapeutics strategy in partnership and collaboration with the EM Platform Leaders.
- Ensure that strategy is connected E2E with all key stakeholders: Value Chain Management, MSAT, Procurement, External Quality, Planning, Network Strategy, R&D, business transformation team, and the internal network.
- Serve as chief-of-staff to the EM head, organizing and managing leadership meeting cadence, and running the Leadership Team PMO.
- Lead execution of selected strategic and cross-functional projects with global significance.
- Collaborate deeply with EM Platform Leaders and Site Leads, serving as the EM single-point-of-contact for IMSC/MTO Strategy forums, Enterprise Risk Management, Network Strategy, and VCM processes.
- Ensure communication and maintenance of vision and strategy documents for individual EM sites.
- Foster team productivity and cohesiveness to work collaboratively in a complex, multi-company, and multicultural environment.
- Lead and conduct external benchmarking efforts to identify best in class applications in business capability and network design, ensure contemporary knowledge of the industry, create optionality in sourcing, and work in collaboration with Platform Leaders and Procurement.
- Lead or contribute to capability building, communications strategy, branding, and refinement of scorecard/metrics.
- Connect with external business transformation team and internal network to ensure consistency across modalities and sites.
- Contribute own expertise to develop recommendations and/or design solutions and ensure solutions are consistent with business objectives.
- Lead the annual Goals and Objectives development, review, and prioritization in alignment with IMSC, Manufacturing & Technical Operations (MTO), and external manufacturing leadership.
- Drive development of cost landscaping and should-cost modeling to drive supply chain optimization.
- Credo Leader for external manufacturing.
- Owner of environmental sustainability for biotherapeutics external manufacturing.
Qualifications
Education:
- Minimum of a Bachelor's / University or equivalent degree is required; Master's in Business Administration, Engineering, Life sciences, or Supply Chain is preferred
- Certification such as PMP / FPX, APICS, and/or Lean/Six Sigma /Process Excellence are preferred
Experience and Skills:
Required:
- Minimum 10 years of relevant work experience
- Experience in end-to-end Pharma / BioPharma manufacturing operations and optimization, with an emphasis on executional excellence
- Experience working with external manufacturers
- Minimum 2 years of experience in strategy development
- Extensive knowledge of core supply chain and operations business processes and related compliance landscape
- Excellent written and oral presentation skills and proven ability to influence and inspire change, without direct authority at all levels
- Demonstrated ability to operate within organizational and process complexity, seeking innovation and reapplication of learning
- Ability to develop business cases by applying strong business and technical acumen
- Independent decision making and self-direction
Preferred:
- Experience with Biotherapeutics, Parenteral, and/or Vaccine manufacturing
- Knowledge of manufacturing operating and production systems (e.g., large-scale bioreactors, parenteral filling lines, etc.)
Other:
- Proficiency in English (written and verbal) is required to communicate effectively and professionally
- May require up to 25% travel, both domestic and international
- Requires the ability, through our flexible work policy, to work on-site a minimum of three days each week, with the option of two remote workdays each week
Why join Johnson & Johnson:
The compensation and benefits information set forth in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits in accordance with their local market.
The anticipated base pay range for this position is $146,000 USD to $251,850 USD.
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation's performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company's discretion on an individual basis.
Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.
Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company's consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company's long-term incentive program.
Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
- Vacation - up to 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays - up to 13 days per calendar year
- Work, Personal, and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Additional information can be found through the link below. For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits.
This job posting is anticipated to close on February 05, 2025. The Company may however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available on https://www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.
Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
For more information on how we support the whole health of our employees throughout their wellness, career and life journey, please visit www.careers.jnj.com.