MSAT S&D Principal Scientist

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 Med Tech, 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.

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Job Function:

Supply Chain Engineering

Job Sub Function:

Process Engineering

Job Category:

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Gurabo, Puerto Rico, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

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.

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We are looking for the best talent, we are looking for a Principal Scientist, Advance Manufacturing.

The Principal Scientist, Advanced Manufacturing - Synthetics Strategy & Deployment is a global technical and strategic role within Manufacturing Science & Technology (MSAT). The role is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and deploying advanced manufacturing technologies, digital solutions, and innovation programs across the global synthetic drug product network.

This position serves as a strategic leader for advanced manufacturing deployment, partnering with global and site leadership to accelerate technology adoption, enhance process robustness, improve supply reliability, and realize measurable business value. The Principal Scientist drives deployment strategies from concept through commercialization and lifecycle implementation while ensuring alignment with business priorities, technical roadmaps, and regulatory expectations.

The role acts as a global technology leader and trusted advisor to cross-functional stakeholders, enabling scaling and deployment of transformative capabilities including process intensification, real-time release testing (RTRt), process analytical technology (PAT), advanced process control, digital manufacturing, multivariate analytics, modeling, and data-driven manufacturing solutions.

Develop and implement global deployment strategies for advanced manufacturing technologies across the synthetic manufacturing network

Partner with MSAT, Supply Chain, JJT, Development, Quality, Specification Management, Regulatory Affairs, and Site Leadership to identify and prioritize deployment opportunities.

Establish long-term technical roadmaps aligned with business objectives, capacity strategies, sustainability commitments, and innovation priorities.

Shape future-state manufacturing and integrated quality capabilities through evaluation of emerging technologies and industry trends.

Influence enterprise investment decisions and technology portfolio prioritization through governance.

Technology Deployment Leadership

Lead global deployment of advanced manufacturing and integrated quality technologies following a prescribed End-to-End Innovation Deployment Process.

Partner with neighboring functions to provide strategic oversight and alignment for technology transfers, scale-up activities, and process implementation.

Ensure effective deployment plans are developed and executed across multiple sites and products.

Drive standardization and best practices across deployment programs.

Ensure successful knowledge transfer and long-term sustainability of deployed technologies.

Business Value Creation and Realization

Define and communicate compelling business cases for deployment opportunities.

Lead development of value propositions including cost, quality, reliability, compliance, cycle time, and sustainability benefits.

Establish value realization frameworks and performance metrics.

Monitor deployment outcomes and ensure achievement of expected business benefits.

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