Senior Director Quality Digital (BE/IE)

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Job Function:

Quality

Job Sub Function:

Digital Quality

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Cork, Cork, Ireland

Job Description:

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).

USA Req#: R-103874

Belgium/Ireland Req#: R-105117

Switzerland Req#: R-105118

 

Position Summary

The Senior Director, Quality Digital & Analytics is responsible for defining and executing a comprehensive strategy that leverages digital transformation and advanced analytics to enhance quality management and compliance across the Innovative Medicine sector. This position will oversee the establishment of digital capabilities, promote data-driven decision-making, and ensure the integration of analytics into quality processes. The position will lead a global team dedicated to improving quality operations through innovative digital technologies while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and compliance.

 

Key Responsibilities

Establish a holistic digital and quality analytics strategy that aligns with enterprise quality and the end-to-end Innovative Medicine quality segment business objectives and priorities from relevant business and quality functions.

Develop a deep understanding of stakeholder needs and the quality landscape to define the voice of the user, incorporating these insights into strategy development.

Oversee the development of risk evaluation AI tools and reports for senior management, including the Executive Committee.

Lead the implementation and maintenance of quality analytics tools to assess and enhance the Quality Management System (QMS).

Drive the rigorous application of analytics within quality assessment processes, ensuring continuous improvements in the quality management landscape.

Identify and execute a strategic roadmap that transforms quality operations, leveraging digital technologies to automate and simplify processes while providing meaningful, predictive insights.

Champion and manage large-scale strategic projects with executive visibility, collaborating with cross-functional teams in automation, digitalization of core quality processes, and analytics application.

Manage the digital investment portfolio for Innovative Medicine Q&C, prioritizing initiatives and developing robust business cases that clearly define value drivers and overall impact.

Establish and manage resource allocation within the team, ensuring optimal utilization of resources and alignment with departmental objectives.

Define and implement metrics and KPIs to monitor and analyze roadmap durability, backlog health, velocity, and digital maturity, using data to drive improvements across the team.

Collaborate with leadership to ensure alignment of Functional roadmaps with the overall digital roadmap and identify any potential redundancies or conflicts in project priorities.

Incorporate Risk-Based Management practices into the development of quality analytics tools to identify trends and signals within the QMS.

Execution: The incumbent will champion and drive large strategic and complex projects, with executive visibility and many critical dependencies and is responsible to resource and execute in collaboration with Supply Chain Intelligent Automation, JJ Technology, Digital and Data Science, and Quality teams. This includes establishing, leading and/or directing project teams in the automation and digitalization of core Quality & Compliance processes, application of data analytics to anticipate risk and generate insights, as well as boosting the digital experience. The incumbent deploys and/or facilitates deployment of digital solutions into the Pharm Quality sector and coordinates sector-specific projects. Additionally, the incumbent will ensure that a lifecycle management approach is defined and in-place to sustain any deployed assets, and assure that impact of future changes is identified, assessed and actioned.

Digital Capability building: The incumbent leads the establishment and deployment of a Digital Curriculum for the Pharm Quality organization and is responsible for significantly raising the digital quotient of the organization.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Strategy Development: Own and Lead Pharm Digital, data and analytics strategy, budget, roadmap, execution and advancement of organizational digital capabilities.

Quality Analytics Management – Oversee implementation and maintenance of quality analytics tools, ensuring rigorous application of analytics to quality assessment processes

Establish and lead (virtual) knowledge and project teams automating and digitalizing core Quality & Compliance processes, as well as boosting the digital experience

People Leadership

Required Minimum Education: Bachelor’s Degree in technical/quantitative field

Required Years of Related Experience: Minimum of 15 years of experience in Data, Analytics & Intelligent Automation for global processes and platforms in a regulated environment

Required Years of People Management Experience: Minimum of 5 years of people management experience required

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Strong leader with the ability to establish clear strategy that can inspire others to deliver and influence to drive change across the organization

Experience in supporting Quality & Compliance organizations on their digital journey.

Appreciation of data products, platforms and technologies; business understanding of cloud computing, Data Science, and how they create impact in existing processes

Consistent track record of collaboration, including the ability to work with cross-functional teams, and across complex ecosystems

Exceptional communications skills (including articulating product vision, inspiring teams, and presenting to senior executives).

Strong negotiation and interpersonal skills required

Excellent stakeholder management and networking skills required

Excellent analytical and strategic thinking skills with attention to detail required

Experience leading complex projects required

Strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices required

Financial Acumen required

Excellent written and verbal communications skills in English required

Ability to translate complex concepts for a variety of stakeholders required

Strong planning and organizational skills with a good understanding of priority setting required

Ability to work independently but also in a team required

Proven track record working in a global matrix environment required

People management experience required

 

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Previous experience with budget, resource management and capacity planning preferred

Experience with implementation of Intelligent Automation/Digital Experience/Data Science projects

Cross sector Q&C leadership experience in at least two sectors

Operational experience

Process excellence certification (e.g. SixSigma, LEAN, or DEX green or black belt)

Strong sector and enterprise mindset & strong business acumen

Percentage Traveled: 20%

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.

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Required Skills:

Preferred Skills:

Business Alignment, Compliance Management, Controls Compliance, Developing Others, Digital Assurance, Digital Governance, Emerging Technologies, Human-Computer Relationships, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Performance Measurement, Process Optimization, Quality Control (QC), Quality Standards, Quality Validation, Regulatory Compliance, Stakeholder Engagement, Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€152,900.00 - €264,385.00

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.