Director Network Strategy-new Modalities

**Function**
- Supply Chain Manufacturing

**Sub function**
- Multi-Family Supply Chain Manufacturing

**Category**
- Director, Multi-Family Supply Chain Manufacturing (P9)

**Location**
- Zug / Titusville / Newark / Allentown / Switzerland / United States of America

**Date posted**
- Jun 16 2025

**Requisition number**
- R-019342

**Work pattern**
- Hybrid Work

Description

**Job Function**:
Supply Chain Manufacturing
** Job Sub Function**:
Multi-Family Supply Chain Manufacturing
** Job Category**:
Professional
** All Job Posting Locations**:
Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States, Newark, New Jersey, United States, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America, Zug, Switzerland
** Job Description**:
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a **Director, Network Strategy - New Modalities Drug Substance & Drug Product (Biotherapeutics). Location**:Switzerland** (Zug), **United States (**New Jersey / Titusville).

**Additional Locations**:United States** (Raritan / Pennsylvania) Ireland (Cork) **Belgium**(Antwerp / Beerse) / Netherlands (Leiden)

The **Director, Network Strategy - New Modalities Drug Substance & Drug Product**is responsible for developing and maintaining portfolio and network level strategies, associated investment approvals, and ensuring timely decisions on portfolio and network needs for the biotherapeutic platform. Collaboration with GCSO on portfolio and market insights, with R&D on pipeline and technology insights, and lead product portfolio and network process capabilities for product portfolio and network team.

This role is responsible for supporting product and portfolio network sourcing council reviews for products, portfolios, and network strategies. Supports VCLS in product strategy roadmap definition for new modalities. Key outcomes for this role are delivering a prescriptive unified network strategy, cross-product strategies for portfolios, prioritization within network and portfolio, investment roadmap, and data-based portfolio and network decisions made on time.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for **new modalities drug substance and drug product** biotherapeutic product portfolio and network strategy
- Develop and maintain portfolio & network level strategy & associated investment approvals and ensuring timely decisions on portfolio and network level strategies for new modalities across DS & DP
- Lead the development and deployment of network strategies across the end-to-end biotherapeutic DS &DP supply chain for new modalities to meet the needs of the current product portfolio as well as the emerging pipeline. This will include investments in new capacities and capabilities, rationalization of legacy assets and identification of leveraging/partnering opportunities to ensure an agile, resilient, and cost-effective network.
- Create coherent strategy and prioritization across products with similar profiles (technology, process, and capabilities, etc.)
- Create and communicate meaningful network guidance across the biotherapeutic platform in partnership with cross functional heads. This includes gaining leadership alignment and endorsement of core/non-core capabilities, network roadmaps, product portfolio and site missions.
- Maintain strong connections to the upstream R&D (Discovery, Product Development and Supply) as well as the downstream Commercial organization to ensure solutions incorporate broad and diverse insights while ensuring end-to-end optimization.
- Partner with Value Chain Management to generate siting options for new and existing products aligned to overarching network strategy.
- Partner with Value Chain Management to gain insights on new modalities by therapeutical area to identify trends, opportunities and competitive landscape.
- Build and maintain external connections relevant to identifying marketplace and industry trends in external network.
- Drive analysis and decisions required from a planned or unplanned ‘trigger event’ (e.g., uptick in demand, capacity gap, etc.).
- Trigger portfolio and network assessments where capacity and capability gaps exist.

**Qualifications**

**Education**:

- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
- biotherapeutic drug substance & drug product experience preferred
- A minimum of ten (10) years combined experience relevant to supply chain.

**Experience and Skills**:
**Required**:

- Experience leading large, complex, and interdependent initiatives in a matrix environment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely across all levels of the company and across our global supply chain.
- Strong business acumen with solid understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes.
- Proven experience in managing against a budget and making decisions that draw upon effective business and financial acumen, including making financial assessments of strategic options and providing recomme