Senior Manager Vein to Vein CAR-T Americas

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Supply Chain Deliver

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family Supply Chain Deliver

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

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

We are searching for the best talent for a Sr Manager Vein to Vein CAR-T Americas to join our team in Raritan, NJ!

CAR-T is an advanced therapy that uses the patient's own immune system to fight the disease. The patient's T-cells are genetically modified to eliminate cancer cells. This groundbreaking, innovative technology offers a hopeful outlook to patients for whom other therapies have no or insufficient effect.

Summary:

The Vein-to-Vein Planning organization is a global team focused on enhancing the patient journey for cell therapies through planning and logistics support. The Americas V2V Senior Manager is an exciting opportunity to lead people leaders of our largest CAR-T commercial region that is still expanding. This critical role serves as the Supply Chain counterpart to the US and LATAM commercial leaders to run smooth day-to-day operations while enabling more demand in an unconstrained market by supporting different alternative models as needed. This role will partner with its regional counterparts to harmonize V2V processes globally. As a leader of a large organization, talent and resource management are key to success.

Key Responsibilities:

• People leader of people leaders (V2V Managers). Drive a culture of high performance and support the personal development of your team members.

• Support the team in patient material delivery through end-to-end process with local teams & partners in meeting local supply/demand requirements.

• Lead regional escalation communication on any issues that impact patient manufacturing or experience.

• Identify and support improvements to existing operating models to increase patient experience and reach

• Partner on harmonizing V2V processes across the regions to one global V2V way of working.

• Responsible for regional supply chain performance on patient journey lead time and capacity utilization.

• Support partnerships (internally & externally) that help ensure CARVYKTI is the preferred cell therapy based on experience, not only clinical efficacy.

• Manage headcount & budget requirements while maintaining strong talent pipeline and development of future leaders.

Qualifications:

Education:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's or equivalent University degree is required, Master’s Degree preferred with a focus in Engineering (Commercial).

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• Minimum 8 years of a related professional experience

• 3+ years of people leadership experience

• Operations experience within Supply Chain (Plan, Source, Make or Deliver)

• Self-starter with a critical mentality to help challenge the status quo, identify risks and shape new processes in an operational context

• Ability to lead in an ambiguous environment by sensing and influencing interdependencies across multiple functions

• Effective communication skills (candid, concise, active listening)

• Positive can-do attitude when dealing with challenges

• Strong self-awareness & open for giving/receiving feedback

Preferred:

• Experience interact