Manager, Logistics Strategy

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Manager, Logistics Strategy located in Horsham, PA or Titusville, NJ.

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This individual contributor role is responsible for managing worldwide distribution activities of clinical supplies within J&J Pharma R&D (biotherapeutics, vaccines and small molecules; for all phases of clinical trials) as part of the Clinical Supply Chain organization with a high degree of autonomy.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage the overall relationship and maintain oversight of operational performance of Logistics providers and collaborate with QA and Procurement organizations to resolve issues.
• Conduct monthly/quarterly business reviews with vendor and identify continuous improvements.
• Compile data and analyze trending through utilization of key performance indicators and quality metrics.
• Serve as point of contact for logistics service providers and in partnership with Quality to ensure quality investigations, and corrective/preventive actions are implemented in a timely manner by the service provider.
• Drive the organization’s distribution network strategy, identify & lead the implementation of new capabilities and solutions and manage the network costing model.
• Prepare business plan budget forecasts and effectively manage budget for logistics services/consumables with limited guidance.
• Lead and manage analysis of potential new logistics service providers in collaboration with business partners (e.g., Procurement, QA) to identify new capabilities and solutions, ensuring the most efficient and cost-effective distribution providers are available to end users.
• Provide subject matter expertise to other Logistics team members, Clinical Supply Integrator and Trial Supply Management to ensure the optimal logistics network is used during trial conduct.
• Identify and manage the development and implementation of solutions between IVR and Logistics provider network to ensure that order integrity is maintained and manual intervention is minimized in the order fulfilment process.
• Use resources to continuously analyze and recommend the optimal materials for cold-chain and other critical condition shipping materials.
• Manage the system/process to coordinate global inventory management of these supplies.
• Apply industry knowledge and collaboration to provide the business with up-to-date and effective solutions for cold-chain, frozen, and narcotics logistics.
• Collaborate with the Deliver organization to apply existing compliance and security resources to the Clinical Supply Chain logistics network.
• Develop excellent working relationships across Logistics (TM&C, Logistics Integration, Trade Compliance, API, DP, P&L), within Clinical Supply Chain (i.e. CSI, T&SM, API, DP/P&L) and outside of CSC (i.e. QA, Procurement, Vendors, GCO, Deliver).
• Support and provide logistics leadership in GxP audits and health authority inspections.
• Support the Quality organization with auditing logistics service providers.
• Lead the operational/business on-boarding of the new service provider.
• Identify & lead other pivotal initiatives as requested.