Digital Integrator, Lab Execution Systems

Antler; Leiden; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson in Leiden seeks a Digital Integrator, Plant Execution Systems, to drive digital manufacturing initiatives across MES, OSI-PI, and LIMS. You will embed ontology, ensure data quality, and lead data-driven improvements through collaboration with manufacturing, quality, and IT teams.

Lead digital transformation projects, optimize analytics, and enable scalable digital operations in a GMP environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, biotechnology, CS, life sciences or related discipline.
• Minimum 8–10 years in pharmaceutical/biotech/manufacturing environments.
• Experience with MES and OSI-PI.
• Experience supporting digital manufacturing or OT solutions.
• Understanding of GxP and data integrity requirements.
• Strong leadership and stakeholder management.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing skills.
• Proven in digital transformation or business process improvement.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the digital representative for Plant Execution Systems within CGT.
• Align plant execution capabilities with Digital, Automation, and TDS Digital strategies.
• Embed ontology into execution systems (MES, OSI-PI, LIMS).
• Represent digital team in Operations planning and governance.
• Improve visualization and reporting capabilities.
• Drive MES deployment and adoption with high data quality.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Facilitation & influencing

Digital transformation leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Life Sciences, or related discipline

Tools

MES

OSI-PI

LIMS

eLIMS integrations

Job description

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. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com.

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function

Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function

Data Engineering

Job Category

Scientific/Technology

All Job Posting Locations:

Leiden, Netherlands

Job Description

Job Description

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

We are searching for the best talent for Digital Integrator, Lab Execution Systems.

The Digital Integrator – Plant Execution Systems serves as the digital lead and digital champion for manufacturing execution and operational technology platforms supporting pilot plants, development laboratories, and manufacturing operations.

This role acts as the bridge between scientific, manufacturing, engineering, quality, and digital teams, ensuring Plant Execution Systems are deployed, integrated, adopted, and continuously improved to enable data-driven operations and digital manufacturing.

The Digital Integrator Is Responsible For Supporting Platforms Including

• Manufacturing Execution Systems
• OSI-PI
• Asset Framework and Event Framework
• eLIMS integrations
• Digital manufacturing analytics and reporting solutions

The position drives digital transformation initiatives that improve manufacturing efficiency, data integrity, and readiness for advanced analytics, AI, and autonomous operations.

Key Responsibilities

Digital Strategy & Business Partnership

• Serve as the digital representative for Plant Execution Systems within the CGT
• Align plant execution capabilities with Digital & Automation and TDS Digital strategies.
• Ensure ontology is embedded directly into our execution systems, including MES, OSI-PI and LIMS supporting clinical batch manufacture.
• Represent digital team for Operations manufacturing during strategic planning and governance .
• Optimize Visualization, Reporting capabilities.

System Adoption & Change Management

• Drive successful implementation and rollout of manufacturing execution capabilities with focus on;
• Ontology being embedded into execution systems
• FAIR data being available within our Data storage systems
• Support and ensure high data quality
• Establish adoption strategies and business processes that promote sustainable execution and configuration to ensure data quality (FAIR data).
• Partner with manufacturing, engineering, and quality teams to embed digital ways of working.

Data Integration & Digital Manufacturing

• Enable seamless integration between MES, OSI-PI, SAP, eLIMS, Benchling, Zontal, and enterprise data platforms.
• Ensure manufacturing data is structured, contextualized, and available for analytics.
• Collaborate with Digital, IT, and OT teams on Asset Framework and Event Framework implementation.

Governance & Data Integrity

• Ensure system configuration aligns with approved master data and ontology standards.
• Support GxP-compliant digital processes and computerized system validation activities.
• Establish procedures that maintain data integrity, traceability.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Biotechnology, Computer Science, Life Sciences, or related discipline.
• Minimum 8–10 years experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, cell therapy, gene therapy, or manufacturing environments.
• Experience with Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) and OSI-PI
• Experience supporting digital manufacturing or operational technology solutions.
• Understanding of GxP regulations and data integrity requirements.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing capabilities.
• Proven experience leading digital transformation or business process improvement initiatives.

Preferred

• Understanding of ontology for Pharma
• Experience with:
• PES-X / MES platforms
• OSI-PI
• LIMS
• Experience with system integration, data architectures, or manufacturing analytics.
• Knowledge of SDLC and computerized system validation.
• Project management certification or experience leading complex programs.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

If you are under 18 years of age you (the candidate) may need to obtain the necessary working papers or other documentation required by state law to start the assignment, as well as get a parent’s consent for the background check