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
Job Function:
Supply Chain Manufacturing
Job Sub Function:
Multi-Family Supply Chain Manufacturing
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Allschwil, Basel-Country, Switzerland, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America, Zug, Switzerland
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Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Director, Network Strategy - New Modalities Drug Substance & Drug Product (Biotherapeutics). Location: Switzerland (Zug), United States (New Jersey / Titusville).
Additional Locations: United States (Raritan / Pennsylvania) UK (Horsham) Belgium (Antwerp / Beerse).
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/.
The Director, Network Strategy - New Modalities Drug Substance & Drug Product is responsible for developing and maintaining portfolio and network level strategies, associated investment approvals, and ensuring timely decisions on portfolio and network needs for the biotherapeutic platform. Collaboration with GCSO on portfolio and market insights, with R&D on pipeline and technology insights, and lead product portfolio and network process capabilities for product portfolio and network team.
This role is responsible for supporting product and portfolio network sourcing council reviews for products, portfolios, and network strategies. Supports VCLS in product strategy roadmap definition for new modalities. Key outcomes for this role are delivering a prescriptive unified network strategy, cross-product strategies for portfolios, prioritization within network and portfolio, investment roadmap, and data-based portfolio and network decisions made on time.
Key Responsibilities:

• Responsible for new modalities drug substance and drug product biotherapeutic product portfolio and network strategy
• Develop and maintain portfolio & network level strategy & associated investment approvals and ensuring timely decisions on portfolio and network level strategies for new modalities across DS & DP
• Lead the development and deployment of network strategies across the end-to-end biotherapeutic DS &DP supply chain for new modalities to meet the needs of the current product portfolio as well as the emerging pipeline. This will include investments in new capacities and capabilities, rationalization of legacy assets and identification of leveraging/partnering opportunities to ensure an agile, resilient, and cost-effective network.
• Create coherent strategy and prioritization across products with similar profiles (technology, process, and capabilities, etc.)
• Create and communicate meaningful network guidance across the biotherapeutic platform in partnership with cross functional heads. This includes gaining leadership alignment and endorsement of core/non-core capabilities, network roadmaps, product portfolio and site missions.
• Maintain strong connections to the upstream R&D (Discovery, Product Development and Supply) as well as the downstream Commercial organization to ensure solutions incorporate broad and diverse insights while ensuring end-to-end optimization.
• Partner with Value Chain Management to generate siting options for new and existing products aligned to overarching network strategy.
• Partner with Value Chain Management to gain insights on new modalities by therapeutical area to identify trends, opportunities and competitive landscape.
• Build and maintain external connections relevant to identifying marketplace and industry trends in external network.
• Drive analysis and decisions required from a planned or unplanned 'trigger event' (e.g., uptick in demand, capacity gap, etc.).
• Trigger portfolio and network assessments where capacity and capability gaps exist.

Qualifications
Education:

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
• Master's degree in the above subject areas or an MBA is preferred.
• biotherapeutic drug substance & drug product experience preferred
• A minimum of ten (10) years combined experience relevant to supply chain.

Experience and Skills:
Required:

• Experience leading large, complex, and interdependent initiatives in a matrix environment.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Demonstrated ability to translate trends and insights into actional strategies that can be deployed in real-world applications
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across all levels of the company and across our global supply chain.
• Strong business acumen with solid understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
• Proven experience in managing against a budget and making decisions that draw upon effective business and financial acumen, including making financial assessments of strategic options and providing recommendations.
• Skills demonstrated in influencing across the matrix and negotiating in situations without positional authority.
• Experience working within different cultures, as well as handling diverse and complex cultural and market-specific issues, such as labor laws, healthcare regulatory requirements, tax law and logistics
• Detail and solution oriented with ability to work within broad guidelines and exercise considerable initiative, judgment, and decisiveness.
• Commitment to advancing our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion goals, including in how we attract, develop, and retain talent.

Preferred:

• Experience working across multiple business segments, functions and/or regions.
• Prior experience in pharmaceutical manufacturing and/or logistics operations.

Other:

• This position requires verbal and written proficiency in English
• This position may require up to 20% domestic and international travel

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided with reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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