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**Job Function: **
Supply Chain Manufacturing
**Job Sub Function: **
Plant Management
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Groningen, Netherlands
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson MedTech | Vision is seeking a Senior Site Director based in Groningen, Netherlands.
About Vision Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.
Are you passionate about improving and expanding on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
The Senior Site Director in Groningen is statutory responsible for the legal entity and oversees site overall performance to drive Surgical Vision growth, utilizing combined Supply Chain and R&D strengths.
This role includes translating business and commercial strategies into inspiring goals, providing clear direction to the leadership team, ensuring expectations are well communicated and strengthen the collaboration between the departments onsite. The Senior Site Director ensures adherence to production plans while upholding high quality and compliance standards, including manufacturing and ISO regulations, as well as effectively introducing new IOL products.
KEY RESPONSIBILITES
- Foster a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) accountability, achieving cost of conversion targets, and driving cost reduction while aligning site strategy with both network and Digital strategies.
- Build and nurture profitable external relationships, engage with the local community, and collaborate with leaders across functions (Quality, Engineering, Finance, etc.) to deliver successful end-to-end supply chain solutions tailored to customer needs.
- Proactively create a purpose-driven environment by aligning Johnson & Johnson’s Credo and Leadership Imperatives with the strategies and goals of the team and the enterprise.
Deliver Excellence in Execution
Responsible for overall performance of the Groningen Manufacturing Facility and delivery against production plan and leading collaboration between the departments onsite.
Ensure quality and compliance for the sites; define manufacturing and ISO standards
Create an environment that prioritizes and holds site leadership accountable for Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS)
Meet cost of conversion goals with an understanding of net cost change and tax implications; drive down costs and waste
Set site strategy in alignment with network strategy and define operational plan to execute it, aligned with Digital strategy
Translate business/commercial strategy into clear and compelling goals to engage others around the vision
Provide clear direction for leadership team (not all have direct reporting relationships to plant manager) to ensure clarity of expectations and responsibilities
Ensure profitable external relationships and drive engagement with the local community
Influence across the matrix and collaborate with other functional (e.g., Quality, Engineering, Materials, Finance, IT, HR, Planning) and supply chain leaders to ensure alignment between on-site functional leaders with the broader site goals and priorities
Complete strategic/value stream projects as they are tied to the business—ensure plant goals are tied to commercial priorities
Create Life-Enhancing Innovation
Build diverse talent pipelines and capability for the future leaders of the organization
Drive continuous improvement with maximizing the strategic goals/broader network priorities
Balance the tactical day-to-day execution with a strategic focus to prepare the plant to respond to future internal needs and external trends (customer and market needs)
Build effective working relationships with other site leaders to maximize efficiencies and resource capabilities
Champion for the site across internal network to position the site as a viable manufacturer of new product needs
Champion and drive reliability across the site.
Demonstrate and inspire
Our Vital Behaviors that put the needs of Our Credo stakeholders first, pursue the highest standards of quality, safety, compliance and ethics.
**QUALIFACTIONS **
- Bachelor’s degree required
- 12+ years’ experience in Operations Management function
- 10+ years people management experience
- Experience with Healthcare Compliance / Regulatory Requirements and Quality Systems audit by major Regulatory Bodies
- Experience in leadership with statutory requirements and labor legislation is preferred
- Possession of Six Sigma or Lean Belt Certification is preferred.
Johnson & Johnson is an 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, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson and 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, please email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Agile Manufacturing, Business Planning, Creating Purpose, Developing Others, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Manufacturing Compliance, Manufacturing Safety, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Plant Operations, Process Improvements, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Tactical Planning
The anticipated pay range for this position, in the primary posting location, is:
€127,900.00 - €221,145.00
The anticipated pay ranges for additional locations are:
The Netherlands – The anticipated base pay range for this position is 112,696 – 194,857.
Benefits:
In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.
*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.
Additional information:
In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions.
Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans.