Director, Strategic Outsourcing

At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld 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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At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld 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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Project/Program Management Group

Project/Program Management

People Leader

Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America

This role serves as the central owner of the Preclinical Sciences and Translational Safety (PSTS) function's outsourcing operating model, translating PSTS outsourcing strategies into consistent execution, governance, and performance management across the organization. The position is accountable for establishing a unified approach to vendor management, financial oversight, capacity planning, and operational excellence at the PSTS level, ensuring external partnerships deliver against business objectives.

While PSTS functional teams retain accountability for defining, assessing, and advancing the scientific and technical capabilities of external partners, this role provides the cross-functional governance, and operational discipline required to maximize the value, scalability, and reliability of PSTS's outsourced portfolio.

• Operationalise PSTS outsourcing strategy through day to day vendor governance, performance monitoring, and issue escalation.
• Ensuring external partners deliver against quality, timeline, capacity, and cost expectations.
• Supporting make vs buy and capacity decisions with data, scenarios, and execution insights.
• Acting as a trusted execution partner to PSTS functional leaders and governance forums.
• Managing PSTS outsourcing budget execution, forecasting, and variance tracking.
• Monitoring external resource utilisation and capacity alignment with approved portfolio demand.
• Supporting financial discipline and transparency across PSTS external delivery.
• Implementing and improving PSTS outsourcing management processes.
• Driving targeted improvements to reduce cycle time, execution friction, and rework.
• Establishing and tracking execution metrics for delivery reliability and efficiency.

• Minimum of a Master’s degree in business or a relevant scientific discipline (Biology, Biotechnology. etc) is required.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in pharmaceutical industry in a relevant operations role is required.
• Demonstrated understanding of the pharmaceutical drug discovery process is required.
• Experience in (Business) operations, project management and finance (OPEX/CAPEX and resource budget planning) is required.
• Strong working knowledge of budgeting,…