Associate Director, Strategic Capacity Planning

Johnson & Johnson seeks an Associate Director to lead strategic capacity planning for the clinical manufacturing network across a 3–5+ year horizon. The role integrates pipeline demand, technical capabilities, and operational capacity to enable resilient, cost-effective decisions across internal and contract manufacturing partners.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead end-to-end strategic capacity planning process across 3–5+ year horizon for internal and external clinical manufacturing network
• Develop and maintain integrated long-range capacity plan covering API, drug product, and packaging activities across all modalities
• Establish planning standards, capacity definitions, governance routines, and performance measures to improve consistency and decision quality
• Build and present scenarios quantifying capacity gaps, excess capacity, timing constraints, technology needs, cost, speed, resilience, and risk
• Lead cross-functional scenario planning and stakeholder alignment on pilot plant, CMO, and IMSC sourcing options with full cost and risk implications

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, capacity planning, engineering, logistics, operations research, computing, finance, economics, or related field; MBA preferred
• Minimum 8 years of relevant experience in strategic capacity planning, supply network planning, or manufacturing within pharmaceutical, chemical, biologics, or related industry
• Demonstrated leadership of complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Strong understanding of pharmaceutical development and manufacturing processes
• Current work authorization in country of employment; no sponsorship available
• Experience with advanced analytics, probabilistic forecasting, simulation, or optimization modeling