Manager External Quality - ECL

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:
Quality

Job Sub Function:
Quality Assurance

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Dublin, Ireland, Latina, Italy, Leiden, Netherlands, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Turnhout, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

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/

J&J Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Manager External Quality - External Contract Labs reporting to the Director Eternal Quality.

Objectives and Responsibilities


* Drives Quality Assurance, Compliance and Technical Support for External Quality contract laboratories (ECLs) within the Pharma R&D organization and Janssen Supply Chain, primarily in EMEA and APAC regions.


* This position serves in teams or major cross-functional project initiatives at the Divisional and the J&J companywide level with regard to management of the external contract labs used globally.

Closely works together with other J&J sector leads for external contract labs, Internal JSC-QC Lab representatives, DPDS, Site Quality leads, Product Quality management, Global Quality Lab Systems, Global Procurement and other stakeholders.


* Supports the EQ-ECL function Leader in the selection, development and management of External Contract Labs globally.


* Responsible for the end-to-end Quality and Compliance oversight of external contract laboratories (ECLs).


* Supports and implements the strategy for continuous improvement of the external contract lab management processes.


* Supports the Pharma consolidation plan of external contract labs within DPDS and JSC-QC labs including increased usage of Preferred Partner networks.

Main Duties/Additional Duties/Sphere of authority


* Active role in the support of new company acquisitions’ onboarding of new ECLs, and associated Q&C remediation efforts, where the Manager will work closely with the various EQ, PQM, DPDS and JSC-QC/QA groups towards effective and timely qualifica...