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**Job Function: **
Supply Chain Planning
**Job Sub Function: **
End-to-End Planning
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Zug, Switzerland
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
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):
United States - Requisition Number: R-072889
Switzerland - Requisition Number: R-075290
Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.
We are searching for the best talent for Senior Director, External Manufacturing – Biotherapeutics role in Titusville NJ, or Horsham PA. Alternative location: Zug, Switzerland.
This role is a key leadership position within External Manufacturing, responsible for strategy, execution, and partnership oversight across the full product lifecycle, focused on drug product.
Purpose: The Senior Director will lead global external manufacturing strategy and execution for biotherapeutic drug products, ensuring robust supply, uncompromised quality, operational excellence, and strong CMO partnerships. The role requires close collaboration with R&D, MSAT, Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, and Regulatory Affairs to ensure seamless product delivery from late-stage development into commercialization.
This position is ideal for a leader who combines deep technical and manufacturing expertise with strong enterprise leadership and influence.
You will be responsible for:
External Manufacturing Strategy & Execution
- Defining and executing global strategies for externally manufactured biotherapeutic drug products across launch and commercial supply.
- Providing leadership oversight for performance, risk management, and business continuity across the external network.
- Driving alignment between product strategy, network strategy, and enterprise priorities.
CMO Partnership & Governance
- Establishing and leading strategic, long-term partnerships with global CMOs.
- Ensuring effective governance, performance management, and issue escalation across external partners.
- Representing Johnson & Johnson as a senior leader in external manufacturing relationships.
Operational Excellence & Lifecycle Management
- Ensuring consistent delivery against safety, quality, service, and cost objectives.
- Partnering with Technical Operations and Quality to enable successful tech transfers, lifecycle changes, and capacity expansions.
- Championing continuous improvement, digital enablement, and adoption of industry best practices across the external network.
Quality & Compliance Leadership
- Ensuring full compliance with global cGMP requirements and Johnson & Johnson quality standards.
- Maintaining inspection readiness and proactive risk mitigation across all external manufacturing partners.
- Supporting regulatory interactions related to external manufacturing activities.
People & Enterprise Leadership
- Leading, coaching, and developing a high-performing external manufacturing leadership team.
- Serving as an active leader within the broader Manufacturing & Supply organization.
- Influencing senior stakeholders through clear, strategic communication and data-driven insights.
Why This Role Matters
This role directly impacts patients, products, and the future of our biotherapeutics portfolio. The Senior Director will help ensure Johnson & Johnson continues to deliver innovative medicines with reliability, quality, and speed while shaping how we partner externally to meet tomorrow’s challenges.
Qualifications / Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Life Sciences, or related field (advanced degree preferred).
- Extensive leadership experience (typically 10+ years) in biotherapeutic manufacturing, with significant exposure to external manufacturing or CMO oversight.
- Deep knowledge of biologics manufacturing, technology transfer, lifecycle management, and global regulatory expectations.
- Demonstrated success influencing outcomes through cross-functional leadership in complex, global matrix organizations.
- Demonstrated people leadership experience, including leading teams and stakeholders through direct and matrixed reporting relationships.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience supporting late-stage and commercial biologics portfolios.
- Strong business and financial acumen.
- Proven ability to lead through complexity, ambiguity, and change.
Other:
- May require up to 25% domestic and/or international travel, depending on business requirements.
- Requires the ability to work on-site a minimum of three days per week, with the option for up to two remote days, in alignment with our flexible work policy.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers , internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
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**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Analytical Reasoning, Creating Purpose, Demand Forecasting, Demand Planning, Developing Others, Distribution Resource Planning (DRP), Financial Competence, Inclusive Leadership, Inventory Optimization, Leadership, Manufacturing Flow Management, Materials Handling, Operations Management, Organizing, Procurement Policies, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Succession Planning, Supply Planning, Tactical Planning