Technical Lead, Product Artwork

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.

Supply Chain Engineering

Packaging Design Engineering

Scientific/Technology

Schaffhausen, Switzerland

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.

This role is pivotal supporting and driving technical innovation and automation within our Product Artwork (PA) team, ensuring operational excellence and future‑readiness.

• Serve as the primary subject‑matter expert for coordinating and troubleshooting all technical aspects of Product Artwork, providing strategic guidance and operational support for stakeholders and business partners.
• Coordinate with Packaging Sites, LOCs and Business Partners to support all technical and automated artwork template corrections and questions.
• Review technical and automated artwork template files to ensure compliance with departmental SOPs and regulatory standards.
• Support automation initiatives within the artwork management system (ArcTiC / Esko), partnering with cross‑functional teams.
• Assist in designing and improving technical and automation workflows; establish KPIs to measure performance and value creation in collaboration with the PT team.
• Collaborate closely with IT, Regulatory, Quality, Packaging Sites, Brand Protection, Supply Chain, and external vendors to support seamless automation integration.
• Provide technical support and training to team members and business partners.
• Help benchmark best practices and new innovations for all product artwork technical and automation activities.
• Build strong alliances across stakeholders to ensure seamless workflow and effective communication.
• Ensure adherence to artwork systems and regulatory standards; identify and mitigate technical and automation risks.

• Bachelor’s degree required or advanced degree in Engineering, Graphic Design, or Supply Chain preferred.

• At least 2 years of relevant experience in a pharmaceutical or regulated environment.
• Technical and automation experience in artwork, regulatory labeling, or packaging fields.
• Experience coordinating and troubleshooting artwork, regulatory labeling, and packaging design (variable data, barcode, automated & technical templates, brief content requirements).
• Experience creating packaging component technical templates and brief content instructions.
• 2+ years of experience in production‑readiness of artworks (preferably packaging).
• Proficiency with Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat Pro.
• General understanding of regulatory processes and systems in pharmaceutical packaging and artwork management.
• Strong understanding of regulatory requirements pertaining to artwork, packaging, and labeling in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Supply chain experience, including expertise in value chain, packaging sites, MSAT external vendor management.
• Knowledge of end‑to‑end performance and metric‑based culture within the artwork coordination team.
• High intellectual curiosity to challenge the status quo and learn artwork processes and their impact on customer experience.
• Ability to multi‑task, work with minimal supervision, and demonstrate resilience and high productivity under schedule and budget constraints.
• Strong cross‑functional business acumen and comprehensive understanding of end‑to‑end supply chain processes.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of influencing without authority at all levels of the organization.

• Life sciences or pharmaceutical industry experience.
• Lean/Six Sigma certification.
• Familiarity with artwork systems (e.g., ArcTiC / Esko).
• Experience setting up KPIs.

• Analytical Reasoning
• Brand Research
• Controls Compliance
• Detail‑Oriented
• EHS Compliance
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Lean Supply Chain Management
• Package and Labeling Regulations
• Product Packaging Design
• Proof Reading Software
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Safety‑Oriented
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application
• Supervision
• Supply Planning
• Technologically Savvy

• Analytical Reasoning
• Brand Research
• Controls Compliance
• Detail‑Oriented
• EHS Compliance
• Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
• Lean Supply Chain Management
• Package and Labeling Regulations
• Product Packaging Design
• Proof Reading Software
• Quality Assurance (QA)
• Safety‑Oriented
• Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Application
• Supervision
• Supply Planning
• Technologically Savvy