Director, External Manufacturing Regulatory Compliance Oversight
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Johnson & Johnson seeks a Director for External Manufacturing Regulatory Compliance Oversight to provide independent regulatory oversight across the manufacturing network. The role partners with Quality, Supply Chain, Regulatory Affairs, and Technical Operations to identify emerging risks and strengthen inspection readiness.
Leadership in a global, matrixed environment is essential to drive governance, CAPA effectiveness, and organizational learning while ensuring compliant partnerships with
Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, or related scientific discipline.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 12 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biologics, advanced therapy, medical device, or combination product GMP experience.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience in Quality, Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Supplier Quality, or External Manufacturing.
- Experience supporting Health Authority inspections, remediation programs, and supplier oversight activities.
- Demonstrated experience with CMO oversight, inspection readiness, CAPA governance, risk management, and quality systems.
- Experience working in global and highly matrixed environments.
Responsibilities
- Provide independent regulatory compliance oversight across External Manufacturing partners.
- Strengthen governance, inspection readiness, and remediation effectiveness.
- Lead risk assessments, trend analyses, and escalation for significant compliance risks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive compliance across the network.
- Coach and develop compliance professionals supporting External Manufacturing oversight.
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Enterprise Compliance
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Horsham, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Malvern, Pennsylvania, United States of America, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Director, External Manufacturing Regulatory Compliance Oversight
Location: US Johnson & Johnson Sites
Reports To: Senior Director, External Manufacturing Regulatory Compliance Oversight
Travel- Up to 25-40% (Global)
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
Position Summary
The Director, External Manufacturing Regulatory Compliance Oversight, provides independent regulatory compliance oversight, risk visibility, inspection-readiness support, governance, and organizational learning across the Innovative Medicine External Manufacturing network. The role partners with External Manufacturing Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Procurement, Regulatory Affairs, Technical Operations, and other stakeholders to identify emerging compliance risks, strengthen compliance performance, and support proactive risk management across contract manufacturers, contract laboratories, strategic partners, and other external suppliers. This role operates within the External Manufacturing Regulatory Compliance Oversight organization and supports implementation of the compliance oversight strategy established for the network. The Director provides independent assessments, compliance challenge, and risk-based recommendations to improve regulatory compliance, inspection readiness, and remediation effectiveness. The role supports the broader IMRC mission of increasing risk visibility, strengthening governance, preventing recurrence of significant observations, and ensuring lessons learned are effectively deployed across the external manufacturing network.
Mission
Strengthen regulatory compliance across the External Manufacturing network through proactive, risk-based oversight, independent assessment of compliance risks, inspection-readiness support, remediation effectiveness oversight, and deployment of organizational learning that improves compliance performance across external partners.
- Monitor and assess significant compliance risks across assigned external manufacturing partners.
- Identify emerging risk signals, recurring observations, inspection readiness concerns, and remediation trends.
- Conduct independent risk assessments and provide objective compliance challenge to accountable functions.
- Support escalation and governance processes for significant compliance risks.
- Evaluate recurring observations and compliance trends to identify systemic vulnerabilities requiring broader action.
- Provide compliance insights and recommendations to leadership and governance forums. Based on the Senior Director's responsibility for enterprise risk visibility and escalation.
- Provide independent oversight and challenge of inspection readiness activities across assigned external manufacturing partners.
- Support readiness reviews, mock inspections, and risk-based assessments.
- Participate in regulatory inspection support activities before, during, and after inspections.
- Review regulatory commitments, remediation plans, and inspection responses for adequacy and sustainability.
- Monitor implementation of actions associated with significant inspection observations.
- Facilitate deployment of inspection learnings and best practices across the network.
- Provide independent compliance oversight of contract manufacturers, contract laboratories, external sterilization providers, critical suppliers, and strategic partners.
- Assess whether oversight approaches appropriately reflect partner risk, product complexity, regulatory history, and business criticality.
- Review compliance trends related to inspections, deviations, complaints, investigations, CAPAs, and supplier performance.
- Challenge the adequacy of risk mitigation plans and remediation strategies.
- Support compliance evaluations associated with new partnerships, technology transfers, product launches, and network changes.
- Provide independent oversight of corrective and preventive actions arising from inspections, audits, supplier assessments, and significant quality events.
- Evaluate effectiveness verification activities and sustainability of remediation efforts.
- Assess root cause analyses for completeness and identification of systemic contributors.
- Identify repeat observations and recurring compliance issues requiring broader intervention.
- Support development of preventive actions designed to mitigate recurrence across multiple partners and products.
- Support governance forums through preparation of risk assessments, trend analyses, and compliance recommendations.
- Monitor external regulatory trends, warning letters, inspection observations, and emerging expectations impacting outsourced manufacturing.
- Translate regulatory intelligence into actionable insights and compliance recommendations.
- Support deployment of lessons learned across the External Manufacturing network.
- Contribute to development of standards, tools, playbooks, and best practices that strengthen compliance oversight and inspection readiness.
- Partner with:
- External Manufacturing Operations
- Supply Chain
- Procurement
- Quality
- Regulatory Affairs
- Product Development
- Technical Operations
- Manufacturing Science & Technology
- Influence compliance outcomes through strong partnerships and effective risk communication.
- Provide independent compliance perspectives that support informed decision-making and effective risk management.
- Promote transparency, accountability, and early escalation of compliance concerns.
- Lead, coach, and develop compliance professionals supporting External Manufacturing oversight activities.
- Promote a culture focused on:
- Proactive risk identification
- Independent challenge
- Inspection readiness
- Risk-based decision-making
- Accountability
- Continuous improvement
- Build technical capabilities in external manufacturing compliance oversight, regulatory intelligence, CAPA effectiveness, and risk assessment. Adapted from the Senior Director people leadership expectations while reducing organizational ownership.
- Bachelor's Degree in Life Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy, or related scientific discipline.
- Advanced degree preferred.
- Minimum 12 years of pharmaceutical, biotechnology, biologics, advanced therapy, medical device, or combination product GMP experience.
- Minimum 5 years of leadership experience in Quality, Compliance, Regulatory Compliance, Supplier Quality, or External Manufacturing.
- Experience supporting Health Authority inspections, remediation programs, and supplier oversight activities.
- Demonstrated experience with CMO oversight, inspection readiness, CAPA governance, risk management, and quality systems.
- Experience working in global and highly matrixed environments.
- Strong understanding of global GMP regulations and external manufacturing compliance requirements.
- Knowledge of pharmaceutical quality systems, supplier quality management, inspection readiness, and risk-based oversight approaches.
- Ability to identify and communicate complex compliance risks in a clear and actionable manner.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-support capabilities.
- Ability to influence without direct authority across a global network.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to balance independent oversight with productive cross-functional partnerships.
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.
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$150,000.00 - $258,750.00
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
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