Director, Strategic Outsourcing — PSTS Operations

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine; Spring House (PA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, located in Spring House, PA, seeks a Director, Strategic Outsourcing to lead the PSTS outsourcing strategy and drive vendor governance across the organization.

You will bridge PSTS leaders with external partners, manage budgets and capacity, and champion data-driven decisions to maximize value and reliability of outsourced activities in a global setting.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in business or a relevant scientific discipline is required.
• Minimum of 10 years experience in pharmaceutical industry operations.
• Understanding of the pharmaceutical drug discovery process is required.
• Experience in operations, project management and finance (OPEX/CAPEX) is required.
• Proven leadership across large, international and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for senior leaders.
• Approximately 30% domestic and international travel required.

Responsibilities

• Operationalising PSTS outsourcing strategy via vendor governance and monitoring.
• Ensuring external partners meet quality, timeline, capacity, and cost expectations.
• Supporting make vs buy and capacity decisions with data and scenarios.
• Acting as a trusted execution partner to PSTS leaders and governance forums.
• Managing PSTS outsourcing budget execution, forecasting, and variance.
• Monitoring external resource utilization and portfolio demand alignment.
• Supporting financial discipline across PSTS external delivery.
• Implementing and improving PSTS outsourcing management processes.
• Driving targeted improvements to reduce cycle time, friction and rework.
• Establishing and tracking execution metrics for delivery reliability.

Skills

Agile Decision Making

Analytics Insights

Budget Management

Leadership

Project Management

Education

Master's degree in business or relevant scientific discipline

Tools

PM Tools

Job description

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, located in Spring House, PA, seeks a Director, Strategic Outsourcing to lead the PSTS outsourcing strategy and drive vendor governance across the organization.

You will bridge PSTS leaders with external partners, manage budgets and capacity, and champion data-driven decisions to maximize value and reliability of outsourced activities in a global setting.