Manager Supplier Quality

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Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Manager Supplier Quality! This position will be located in Athens, GA

This role ensures business, quality and compliance goals adhere to Johnson and Johnson (J&J) policies, enterprise standards and government-issued environmental, health, safety, quality and regulatory policies and guidelines.

Represents the J&J credo and quality values in contact with the suppliers and will comply with the J&J regulations for ethics and business conduct to strengthen the reputation of J&J.

The responsibilities are within the EQ-SQ organization, that is the J&J IMSC quality unit responsible for Q&C oversight of suppliers in the Global Pharma sector, and acts as quality partner for all API and DP J&J Innovative Medicine Supply Chain (IMSC) manufacturing sites.

This position requires knowledge of all categories used at the corresponding to the J&J IMSC site.

This position may manage Contractors / SQ team with lower PG and Indirect reports.
Key Responsibilities:

A minimum of a Bachelors or equivalent University degree is required with a focus in Science or Engineering preferred. Masters or Advanced degree preferred

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in quality management, production, quality control, or R&D in a pharmaceutical and/or biotechnology environment with proven experience in managing external manufacturing operations or Quality Assurance for external manufacturing.
• Refer to supporting documents for Summary of Experience (SoE)
• Frequently collaborates with internal operating companies and R&D partners on a wide variety of product, process, project and compliance related issues.
• Interfaces with internal J&J IMSC functional groups to broaden the necessary technical support for external partners.
• Interactions are required with MSAT, Material Science, Procurement, EHS, Planning, the different J&J IMSC manufacturing sites, but also with the other quality groups within J&J IMSC and on enterprise level, such as Compliance, Quality unit API manufacturing, Quality systems and the different Qualified persons.
• Familiar with GMP  and International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) - regulation
• Expert demonstrating comprehensive knowledge and skill set to provide guidance to others and develop sustainable improvements in EQ-SQ
• Selection, Qualification and Monitoring of Suppliers and EM
• Activities linked to Supplier Quality Management
• Training & development of new hires.
• Partners with Enterprise and J&J IMSC leaders to establish process improvements and proactive quality achievements.
• Exposure to regulatory authorities’ inspections

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and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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