Global Senior Director, Lab Strategies & Vivarium Operations

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.

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Job Function:

Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:

Pharmacology

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, San Diego, California, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for our new Global Senior Director, Lab Strategies & Vivarium Operations, to be based in Beerse, Belgium; Spring House, Pennsylvania; La Jolla, California; or Remote, Continental United States.

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

Role Overview

The Global Senior Director provides strategic and operational leadership and oversight for the in‑house vivarium and animal care and welfare programs located in Spring House, PA, La Jolla, CA, and Beerse, Belgium, and oversees all departmental laboratory strategies and planning, inclusive of in vitro and analytical laboratories, office space planning, and global facilities and laboratory operations across the PSTS organization. The role provides global strategic and operational oversight of vivaria, laboratories, and office planning worldwide, including CAPEX planning, facility design, renovations, equipment investments, and utilization.

This position partners with the SIS Global Head, senior leadership, key stakeholders, and SIS functional discipline leaders to ensure global alignment with J&J Enterprise, J&J Innovative Medicine, and internal standards and expectations, integrates portfolio priorities into functional planning, applies data‑driven decision making to guide short‑, mid‑, and long‑term strategic planning, and fosters a collaborative culture. Other responsibilities may include regulatory license holder activities, crisis management, business continuity, risk mitigation, workforce leadership, collaboration with Environmental Health & Safety, promotion of ethical standards, and serving as a visible change agent. This is an essential personnel role.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide global strategic and operational leadership of the internal vivaria, including prioritization of work targeted toward impactful portfolio contributions, key capabilities, and culture of care, including oversight of facilities and laboratory operations.

• Serve as a strategic partner with leaders and peers in other R&D teams, key stakeholders, and SIS functional discipline leaders to ensure global alignment with J&J Enterprise, J&J Innovative Medicine, and internal standards and expectations.

• Develop strategies to ensure proactive global resource and business planning and operational excellence and serve as a global champion, partner, and sponsor.

• Serve as a member of the senior leadership team and cross‑functional PSTS and DPDS strategic teams and contribute to strategic and long‑range planning.

• Engage as a business leader at the campus level to advise and guide strategy and functional planning influencing infrastructure and campus needs.

• Participate in internal and external symposia, scientific forums, conferences, and meetings at major scientific, industry, and regulatory venues.

• Hire, manage and develop high performing talent who share furthering our business opportuniti