Emerging Technology, Fellow

Fellow Drug Substance Biotherapeutics

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe good health is the foundation of vibrant lives, thriving communities, and forward progress. That's why for more than 130 years, we have sought to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. Today, as the world's largest and most broadly-based healthcare company, we are committed to using our reach and size for good.

We strive to improve access and affordability, build healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere.

Every day, more than 130,000 employees across the world blend heart, science and resourcefulness to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity.

The person we are looking for serves as a technical expert, shaping and defining solutions for advanced manufacturing that support Process Intensification and Real Time Release, with a final aim of process reliability, enhancements, and control. They will also guide and mentor those around you, shaping our advanced manufacturing roadmap. Identify, pursue and maintain relationships with internal and external partners, academic, government, and commercial, using MSAT, MTO and DPDS resources as needed.

Identify areas of the highest impact on implementation of new technologies, focusing on broad applicability and ease of introduction. A close connection with execution of laboratory and pilot-scale execution of studies. Strong record of contributing to business through identification of internal and external technologies, and the breakthrough application of these technologies to create competitive products and processes (new or improved processes or products, Trade Secrets, Patents/Publications) through discovery and/or Licensure.

Key Responsibilities:

• High-impact individual contributor influencing and shaping the strategic direction of advanced manufacturing solutions that deliver high value competitive products and processes.
• Scout and benchmark new technologies and advancements in biotherapeutic drug substance manufacturing.
• Identify, pursue, and maintain relationships within internal and external partners such as academic, government, and commercial.
• Technical mentor, guide, and support the entire Emerging Technologies organization; working closely with leads to ensure the best solutions are tested and driven towards adoption.
• Closely affiliated with laboratory execution of studies to develop new technologies and innovations.

Qualifications

Education:

• Minimum requirements:
  
  BA/BS, PhD with minimum 10-12 years of experience
• Education in a technical field related to pharmaceutical manufacturing, such as Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, or a similar quantitative scientific field is preferred.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• An outstanding track record of delivering meaningful solutions and strategic directions for next generation pharmaceutical manufacturing in Biotherapeutics
• Significant expertise in pharmaceutical manufacturing, with a focus on biotherapeutic or parenteral drug substance processes and associated unit operations, including impacts to GxP regulations.
• Outstanding skills in scientific communication, including authoring documents (white papers, publications) and excellent visual display of quantitative information.

Preferred:

• Sound grasp of Quality by Design principles and Pharmaceutical Real time release testing.
• Familiarity with manufacturing cGMPs, Systems Qualification, Process Validations, process sciences, Tech Transfers, QbD, advanced analytical technology, PAT, Continuous Manufacturing, Modular Manufacturing.
• Familiarity with modeling (chemo metric, mechanistic, machine learning, AI)
• A history of external influencing scientific fields through white papers, presentations, publications in relevant fields and a strong network in academia and industry.

Other:

• Proficient English, both written and spoken
• Requires up to 20% domestic and international travel.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

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