Senior Specialist, Supplier Quality

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:

Quality

Job Sub Function:

Supplier Quality

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Gurabo, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for Senior Specialist, Supplier Quality to join our Innovative Medicine Quality Organization located in Raritan, NJ; Horsham, PA; Spring House, PA; Wilson, NC; or Gurabo, Puerto Rico.
 

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

Within the JJIM Supplier Quality group, this role is part of a global team focused on supplier lifecycle management of >3500 Supplier's on behalf of 20 J&J Innovative Medicines sites globally, including responsible for supplier selection, audit qualification, risk management monitoring and issue management with suppliers across the Biotherapeutics, Synthetics and Advanced Therapies platforms. This role is also tasked with supporting NPI growth, business continuity and delivering on quality and compliance goals in compliance with J&J quality and regulatory guidelines.
 

Essential Job Duties:
 

Core responsibilities include development of Supplier Quality strategic priorities and leading execution of deliverables in collaboration with JJIM site personnel, SQ regional quality teams and functional business partners such as Procurement, Planning, MSAT and local JJIM Site Quality teams.
 

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns supplier lifecycle management for a portfolio of suppliers including supplier selection, qualification, risk management, performance monitoring, issue management and compliance auditing.
• Owns SQ QMS activities supporting lifecycle such as nonconformances, investigations, change control and audits.
• Collaborate with JJIM Site QA teams on supplier performance and supplier material or services changes.
• Deliver direct support to JJIM local Site during Customer, JJRC and HA inspections as needed.
• Lead and maintain supplier relationships through business initiatives and compliance needs.
• Support Supplier Quality project scoping and lead project management to achieve goals, objectives and cascade.
• Shape supplier management practices for platforms with evolving or emerging complexities, or with hybrid supply chains, models, such as with advanced therapies, critical technology and software solutions providers.
• Act as Supplier Quality Indirect Materials point of contact with site SPOCS related to indirect supplier management.
• Project manage quality initiatives that have impact across JJIM site network in collaboration with site quality teams.
• Deliver change management and communication updates within supplier quality on core activities and projects.
• Build effective networks and act as SQ point of contact for Indirect Supplier / Services management with core partners.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree is required. BSc in Science, Engineering and Technical subjects is preferred
• E2E supply chain management or site based QA, QC, QMS experience
• Knowledge on EQ/SQ QMS required to manage Nonconformances,