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Job Function:

Supply Chain Manufacturing

Job Sub Function:

Plant Management

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Limerick, Ireland

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Manager, External Manufacturing MSM Operations. This position is primarily based in Irvine, California. Candidates may also be considered for employment at select Johnson & Johnson locations in New Jersey (Bridgewater, Raritan, Titusville, New Brunswick, Piscataway, Princeton, Somerset), Pennsylvania (West Chester, Horsham, Malvern), Florida (Jacksonville), California (Milpitas), or Limerick, Ireland.

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):

US - Requisition Number: R-091737

Limerick, Ireland - Requisition Number: R-094126

Remember, whether you apply to one or all of these requisition numbers, your applications will be considered as a single submission.

About Vision

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Are you passionate about improving and expanding on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting-edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs – from the pediatric to aging eye – in a patient’s lifetime.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

The Senior Manager, External Manufacturing MSM Operations a key member of the Surgical Vision Supply Chain team, responsible for leading productivity initiatives, materials management, and supply continuity efforts across the end-to-end Surgical Vision supply chain. This role ensures continuity of supply and customer service by proactively identifying opportunities to improve cost, service, inventory, and materials flow while resolving critical supply disruptions through strong cross-functional leadership.

This position requires a strong understanding of the business segment and end-to-end supply chain, along with the ability to collaborate effectively across Plan, Make, Engineering, Source, Deliver, IT, Quality, Regulatory, and External Manufacturing to strengthen strategic reliability and risk management processes.

Reporting to the External Manufacturing Director, the Senior Manager Material Supply Management and Productivity Lead will be responsible for managing the J&J Vision External Manufacturing Raw Material Network and delivering on productivity targets in strong collaboration with all functions that constitute E2E Supply Chain.

Accountabilities:

• People Leadership: Lead, coach, and develop a materials supply management and productivity-focused team, setting clear priorities, building capability, and driving accountability for business outcomes.
• People Leadership: Foster a high-performing, collaborative culture across internal teams and external manufacturing partners, ensuring strong engagement, communication, and execution discipline.
• Productivity and Cost Improvement: Lead supply chain productivity initiatives to deliver cost improvement targets across the Surgical Vision external manufacturing network, including value stream opportunities, supplier productivity, inventory optimization, and process improvements.
• Productivity and Cost Improvement: Partner with Source, Plan, Make, Finance, Quality, Engineering, and External Manufacturing to identify, prioritize, and execute cost improvement projects that improve service, cost, cash, and operational efficiency.
• Materials Supply Management: Manage the external manufacturing raw material supply network to ensure continuity of supply, reliable materials flow, and alignment with business demand and production requirements.
• Materials Supply Management: Drive governance and issue resolution for material constraints, supplier performance challenges, inventory risks, and capacity-related concerns impacting external manufacturing operations.
• Risk Mitigation: Identify, assess, prioritize, and mitigate supplier, material, external manufacturing, and end-to-end supply chain risks; maintain risk visibility and drive timely mitigation actions.
• Risk Mitigation: Lead cross-functional escalation and rapid response activities to minimize business disruption, customer impact, and compliance risk while ensuring effective root cause resolution and preventive actions.
• PMO and Project Management Support: Support project management office activities for strategic supply chain projects related to service, compliance, productivity, risk mitigation, and materials reliability.
• PMO and Project Management Support: Develop project plans, dashboards, governance updates, executive communications, and performance tracking to ensure cross-functional alignment, transparency, and delivery against milestones.

Qualifications:

• A minimum of a bachelor’s degree is required; a technical degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management, Operations, or a related field is preferred. An advanced degree such as an MBA or MS is preferred.
• A minimum of 8 years of experience in medical device, pharmaceutical, healthcare, or another regulated industry is required.
  • Proven experience leading complex cross-functional programs and rapid response or issue resolution teams is required

• Strong project and program management capabilities, including risk assessment, prioritization, escalation, governance, and stakeholder management, are required.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence and lead in a matrixed environment without direct authority is required
  • Experience in root cause analysis, investigations, and CAPA execution is required
  • Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure, fast-paced environments is required

• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes across Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, and external manufacturing is required.
  • Experience in Operations, Technical Operations, Quality, or Planning is preferred
  • Lean / Six Sigma certification (Green or Black Belt) is preferred
  • Project Management certification (PMI or equivalent) is preferred
  • Experience working in global, cross-cultural, and virtual teams is required

Other:

• Ability to travel domestically and/or internationally up to 25% of the time is required

Required Skills:

People Leadership, Team Development, Supply Chain Productivity, Cost Improvement, Materials Supply Management, Raw Material Supply Continuity, External Manufacturing, End-to-End Supply Chain Management, Supplier Management, Inventory Management, Materials Flow Optimization, Risk Identification and Mitigation, Issue Resolution, Escalation Management, Cross-Functional Leadership, PMO Support, Project Management, Program Governance, Stakeholder Management, Executive Communication, Data-Driven Decision Making, Dashboard Development, Performance Tracking, Root Cause Analysis, CAPA, Regulatory Compliance, Quality Systems

Preferred Skills:

Agile Manufacturing, Contract Management, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Cross-Functional Collaboration, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Leadership, Negotiation, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Plant Operations, Program Management, Relationship Building, Spend Analysis, Strategic Sourcing, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Technical Credibility, Vendor Selection

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.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Agile Manufacturing, Benchmarking, Developing Others, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Manufacturing Compliance, Manufacturing Safety, Organizational Project Management, Organizing, Plant Operations, Process Improvements, Strategic Supply Chain Management, Tactical Planning, Team Management

  

 

The anticipated pay range for this position, in the primary posting location, is:

€85,000.00 - €146,050.00

 

 

The anticipated pay ranges for additional locations are:

 

Ireland – The anticipated base pay range for this position is 85,000– 146,050 EUR

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.

 

 

Additional information:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions.



Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans.



For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.​

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.