Digital Material Management Lead, Data & Systems

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

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Digital Integrator – Material Management in Leiden, NL. The role leads digital strategy across CGT material processes and aligns SAP, MES, ELN, BIOVIA, and LIMS to ensure traceability, data ownership, and compliant operations.

You will bridge scientists, development, manufacturing, and IT, delivering end-to-end digital material management and enabling AI-driven analytics and reporting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Supply Chain, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology, or a related discipline.
• Minimum 5–8 years of experience in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, life sciences, manufacturing, laboratory informatics, supply chain, or material management environments.
• Experience working with and integrating execution systems such as MES, ELN, LIMS, BIOVIA, and SAP.
• Strong cross-functional leadership, stakeholder management, change management, communication, and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain material management digital strategy for CGT.
• Establish clear system-of-record boundaries and data ownership across SAP, MES, ELN, BIOVIA, and LIMS.
• Partner with Business functions to ensure compliance for material management digital processes
• Ensure the strategy supports both development agility and GxP-compliant manufacturing operations across sites and external partners.
• Design and implement connected material workflows across SAP, MES, ELN, BIOVIA, and LIMS.
• Ensure material master data and approved terminology are embedded at the point of execution through governed ontology, metadata, and reference-data standards.
• Define required integrations and event flows, including material creation and status from SAP, consumption and genealogy in MES, experimental use in ELN and BIOVIA, and testing and release status in LIMS.
• Enable contextualised material data to flow to enterprise data platforms for reporting, investigations, comparability, modelling, and AI.
• Identify and resolve gaps in material visibility, traceability, chain of custody, inventory status, expiry management, and data segregation.
• Drive implementation and sustained adoption of standard material management processes and digital capabilities across participating functions and sites.
• Translate complex cross-functional workflows into practical requirements, user stories, process designs, and implementation plans.
• Coordinate training, communications, business readiness, and operating procedures for new material capabilities.
• Continuously improve the strategy and roadmap using operational performance, user feedback, data-quality results, and evolving business priorities.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Change management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Supply Chain, Computer Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology, or related

Tools

MES

ELN

LIMS

BIOVIA

SAP

Job description

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Digital Integrator – Material Management in Leiden, NL. The role leads digital strategy across CGT material processes and aligns SAP, MES, ELN, BIOVIA, and LIMS to ensure traceability, data ownership, and compliant operations.

You will bridge scientists, development, manufacturing, and IT, delivering end-to-end digital material management and enabling AI-driven analytics and reporting.