Advanced Therapies Platform QC Senior Associate

About Innovative Medicine

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.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/innovative-medicine

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicines is recruiting for Advanced Therapies Platform QC Senior associate to be based in Leiden, Beerse or Raritan site.

Please note that this role is available across multiple countries and may be posted under different requisition numbers to comply with local requirements. While you are welcome to apply to any or all of the postings, we recommend focusing on the specific country(s) that align with your preferred location(s):

[Beerse-Belgium and Leiden-Netherlands] - Requisition number: R-044054

[Raritan-USA] - Requisition Number: R-044064

At Johnson & Johnson, we are working to create a world without disease. Transforming lives by finding new and better ways to prevent, intercept, treat and cure disease inspires us. We bring together the best minds and pursue the most promising science. We collaborate with the world for the health of everyone in it.

This role will have significant impact on patients who are awaiting our Innovative medicines and is focused on Gene and Cell therapy products. Enabling release of meaningful medicines to patients in need will make this job very exciting! We are testing innovative medicines at internal and external laboratories. Your experience with Digital systems, data management and data automation will be crucial for our success. You will play a meaningful role in test improvement, to enable product release. Management of change based on data and leading investigations are important to enable fast development of manufacturing and testing processes. We use sophisticated data management systems, automation, and we supervise testing processes with different data management tools. Establishment and maintenance of the tools we use will be essential to support the release of our products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Effect processes for implementation of testing excellence, metrics and resources, applies effective planning and reporting tools to enable risk-based and data-driven decisions, coordinates data and analytics.
• Crafts dashboards and data visualization for sophisticated testing processes. Your contribution will be of major importance to our production and testing processes.
• Support Quality testing processes and work with local laboratories to understand and handle impact of Changes to the supply chain.
• Proactively Leads multi-disciplinary projects with different departments, including Quality Assurance, Site QC teams, Global planning, SAP SMEs and external companies where required.
• Collaborate with functional departments to support issues, investigations and resolutions.
• Enables, supports and implements digitalization of work processes.
• Apply Quality Systems: Event and CAPA Management System, Document Management System, Learning Management System, Change Control System and new technologies.

Qualifications

Education: Minimum qualification: Bachelor degree or equivalent.

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• A minimum of six (6) years of related work experience is required.
• Advanced knowledge in Testing systems and Quality Control.
• Analytical knowledge including knowledge about internal as well as external laboratory operations is helpful
• Experience with laboratory management systems and laboratory quality systems will enable management of testing.
• Affinity with digitalization, Automation and Data science are of significant importance. Automation of testing processes is an important goal for Johnson and Johnson, Innovative medicines.
• Self-starting skills and ability to tackle sophisticated issues related to data acquisition, data pipelines, visualization and statistics.
• Understanding of Management Review tools, Key performance indicators and Dashboards.
• Strong communication skills
• Able to work independently
• Flexible and accurate
• Professional proficiency in English.

Preferred:

• Experience with project management and governance structures.
• Programming skills.
• Experience with Cell and Gene therapy product testing.

Other:

• Professional proficiency in English is required.
• This is a global role with opportunities to collaborate across regions. We are seeking candidates based near Raritan, NJ, USA; Beerse, Belgium; or Leiden, Netherlands.
• Travel percentage will be up to 10%.

The anticipated base pay range for this position is 64,000.00 to 103,040.00 on an annual basis and includes 8% holiday allowance.

At Johnson & Johnson, we want every candidate to feel supported throughout the hiring process. Our goal is to make the experience clear, fair, and respectful of your time.

Johnson & Johnson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against any disability.

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