Manager, Lead Antibody Production

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:
Discovery & Pre-Clinical/Clinical Development

Job Sub Function:
Biotherapeutics R&D

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
US026 PA Spring House - 1400 McKean Rd

Job Description:

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 Manager, Lead Antibody Production to be in Spring House, PA.

Purpose: Are you a passionate scientist with expertise in protein expression, molecular biology and biochemistry? Are you an empathetic leader who recognizes the contributions of others and brings out the best in people? If so, then Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting a Manager, for the Lead Antibody Production team within Therapeutics Discovery.

Our department is a central piece to our discovery engine, generating our therapeutic candidates, including ground-breaking Multispecific antibodies and antibody drug conjugates.

We strive to capitalize on our talents to discover next-generation medicines to help patients in need.

The Manager will lead a team of scientists to express complicated proteins, engineer mammalian cells, innovate upstream processes, and deliver creative research solutions to formidable drug discovery challenges.

You will be responsible for:


* Lead and mentor a team that expresses candidate biotherapeutic molecules in stable mammalian cell culture systems.


* As a protein expression expert, interpret complex datasets to identify and mitigate risks as part of our discovery process.

Creatively identify drug developability trends by modeling large datasets.


* Identify value-adding innovative protein production capabilities, industry trends, and emerging technologies and work to evaluate these.

Lead creative research efforts (e.g.

using ‘omics and screens) to push efficiencies and maintain our organizational competitiveness.


* Collaborate across our company’s global functions to discover innovative medicines.

Communicate regularly and accurately within the department and with company leadership to drive our decision making.


* Lead drug dis...