Lead R&D Advanced Therapies

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.

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):

Belgium R-108313, United States of America R-110824

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

Job Function:

R&D Operations

Job Sub Function:

Clinical Supply Operations

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

This position may be based in Beerse, Belgium, or at one of the designated US locations in Horsham, Pennsylvania; Malvern, Pennsylvania; Spring House, Pennsylvania; or Titusville, New Jersey. This position is not eligible for relocation assistance.

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

Innovative Medicine Transcend is a global business transformation program focused on modernizing and standardizing foundational business processes through a single global SAP S/4HANA platform. R&D is an integral part of the program, ensuring relevant clinical supply chain and R&D operational requirements are represented within the enterprise template.

The Lead R&D - AT - Transcend serves as the primary R&D business representative for Advanced Therapies (AT) and Packaging Technology (Pack & Tech). This senior individual contributor partners across business, site, process, deployment, and technology teams to translate business needs into process and solution requirements and to support design, build, testing, deployment, business readiness, adoption, stabilization, and continuous improvement.

You will be responsible for:

• Serve as the R&D process lead for Advanced Therapies and Packaging Technology across assigned Transcend releases and deployment activities.
• Represent R&D business requirements throughout process design, solution confirmation, build, testing, deployment, stabilization, and hypercare.
• Gather, analyze, document, validate, and prioritize business requirements, business scenarios, process flows, user stories, gaps, controls, and acceptance criteria.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with business process owners, global template owners, site representatives, subject matter experts, deployment teams, and J&J Technology.
• Drive alignment between R&D operational needs, site requirements, end-to-end business processes, and global template standards.
• Assess business impacts, compliance considerations, risks, issues, dependencies, and operational implications; develop mitigation plans and escalate unresolved decisions through governance.
• Lead or coordinate business impact assessments, readiness evaluations, stakeholder engagement, training inputs, communications, cutover preparation, go-live readiness, and stabilization activities.
• Develop, review, and confirm business scenarios and test cases; coordinate business participation in integrated testing and User Acceptance Testing; support defect triage and business acceptance.
• Maintain clear visibility of milestones, deliverables, actions, risks, issues, and dependencies for assigned process areas, aligned with program plans and governance expectations.
• Prepare concise status updates, recommendations, options, and decision requests for program and business leadership.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, harmonize, and improve processes while supporting compliance, patient supply continuity, operational readiness, and sustainable adoption.
• Represent Advanced Therapies requirements across clinical manufacturing and associated end-to-end clinical supply chain processes.
• Lead R&D business process activities for Packaging Technology, including packaging development, packaging specifications, labeling, packaging execution, and related data and system capabilities.
• Partner with site and global teams to incorporate AT and Pack & Tech requirements into future-state processes, data, integrations, controls, reporting, and system solutions.
• Collaborate across Clinical Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality, Logistics, Planning, Master Data, Finance, Packaging, and J&J Technology to ensure requirements are represented in end-to-end designs.
• Assess impacts to clinical manufacturing and packaging operations, specifications, labeling processes, interfaces, controls, reporting, user roles, product traceability, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate resolution of cross-functional process gaps, risks, and dependencies affecting AT and Pack & Tech operations.
• Support solution confirmation, testing, deployment, readiness, adoption, stabilization, and continuous improvement for AT and Pack & Tech capabilities.
• Support deployment of new capabilities while protecting compliance, product traceability, patient supply continuity, and operational readiness.

Qualifications

Education

• A minimum of a bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Engineering, Life Sciences, Information Systems, or a related discipline is required.

Experience and skills

• A minimum of 6 years of relevant experience in R&D, clinical supply chain, pharmaceutical or biotechnology operations, manufacturing, packaging, business process transformation, or enterprise deployment is required.
• Experience gathering and translating business requirements into process, data, system, or deployment deliverables is required.
• Experience working across global, cross-functional teams in a complex matrix environment is required.
• Demonstrated ability to independently lead workstreams, manage competing priorities, and influence stakeholders without direct authority is required.
• Strong analytical, process-mapping, problem-solving, facilitation, project execution, and decision-support capabilities are required.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex topics clearly to business and technical stakeholders, are required.
• Ability to identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies, and business impacts in a regulated environment is required.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA or a comparable enterprise transformation program is preferred.
• Knowledge of Advanced Therapies, clinical manufacturing, Packaging Technology, packaging development, labeling, clinical supply chain, manufacturing operations, quality management, logistics, or master data is preferred.
• Experience supporting solution design, Fit-to-Standard activities, integrated testing, User Acceptance Testing, deployment, change impact assessment, business readiness, cutover, or hypercare is preferred.
• Experience with Agile delivery methods and tools such as Jira or comparable platforms is preferred.
• Experience working in a GxP-regulated environment and supporting validated business processes or systems is preferred.

Other

• Proficiency in English, written and verbal, is required.
• This role requires approximately 10-15% domestic and international travel based on business and program needs.
• This position operates as a senior individual contributor and does not have direct people management responsibility.
• The role is expected to work collaboratively across global time zones and may require flexibility to support critical program activities.

Required Skills:

Business Process Transformation, Change Management, Clinical Supply Chain, Cross-Functional Leadership, SAP S/4HANA

Preferred Skills:

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€74,000.00 - €117,530.00

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.