Supply Chain Excellence Manager

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Supply Chain Planning

End-to-End Planning

People Leader

Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America

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Global Vein to Vein (V2V) Excellence is searching for the best talent for a Supply Chain Excellence Manager located in Raritan, NJ. Janssen Biotech, Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and Legend Biotech USA Inc., have entered into a global collaboration to develop, manufacture, and commercialize CAR-T therapy. This partnership aims to advance the immunotherapy CAR-T platform and investigational treatment.

Are you interested in joining a team on the front lines supporting the CAR-T Patient Journey? Apply today for this exciting opportunity!

As Supply Chain Excellence Manager, you will be central to scaling the supply chain processes of our CAR‑T therapy across the Americas. CAR‑T is highly personalized and time‑critical — success depends on detailed execution across planning, collection, logistics, and manufacturing. You will lead high‑impact initiatives to shorten vein‑to‑vein timelines, increase reliability, enable innovative delivery models, anticipate future market and regulatory requirements, and improve cost competitiveness — all while maintaining the highest standards of quality, GMP/GTP compliance, chain of identity/custody, and patient safety.

If you thrive in fast‑moving environments and want to deliver visible impact for patients, this is your role.

• Lead strategic supply chain initiatives that scale operations for future patient volumes, enable operational excellence and meet future market requirements (e.g., lead time reduction, process enhancements).
• Lead and deliver cross-functional projects end-to-end — setting scope, plans, achievements, metrics and risk mitigations; ensure on time delivery aligned to strategic goals.
• Drive operational excellence across regions: improve processes, mature capabilities, and implement performance management (e.g. critical metrics, dashboards).
• Champion continuous improvement using data-driven methods (e.g., Lean/Six Sigma) to reduce variability, cost and turnaround time.
• Communication Facilitation:
  Serve as a liaison between the leadership team and other departments, fostering effective communication and collaboration.
  
  E.g. team meetings, strategy off sites, Goals & Objective cascades
• Thought leadership:
  Conduct research and provide analysis on various topics to aid in decision‑making processes.
  
  E.g. ageing order analysis, FG inventory analysis
• Collaborator management:
  Build and maintain relationships with internal and external collaborators, representing the leadership team as needed.
  
  E.g. IMSC partners
• Strategic planning:
  Assist in developing and implementing the organization’s central initiatives, ensuring alignment with overall goals.
  
  E.g. G&O, accelerated launch plan, resource planning

Education: A Bachelor’s degree is required;
Master s degree preferred (preferred fields: Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Research, Business, Life Sciences)

• A minimum of 8 years of relevant supply chain experience
• Supply chain planning and/or logistics experience
• Experience working across organizational boundaries
• Ability to…