Assistant General Counsel, IM Global Supply Chain
Johnson & Johnson
August 18, 2026
Remote friendly (New Brunswick, NJ)
United States
Corporate Functions
Responsibilities
- Serve as primary legal advisor for Innovative Medicine Supply Chain (Value Chain Management), including network strategy, supply chain business development, licensing, strategic alliances, and complex commercial transactions.
- Provide practical counsel to manufacturing, procurement, and supply operations on key strategic/operational priorities.
- Advise on global logistics, distribution, deliver operations, inventory management, supply resilience and continuity in a highly regulated environment.
- Lead negotiation of significant strategic, commercial, and operational agreements.
- Identify, assess, and manage legal, regulatory, commercial, geopolitical, and reputational risks.
- Provide thought leadership on emerging supply chain regulation, ESG, trade controls, sanctions, governance, and digital transformation.
- Coordinate cross-functional legal support across IP, Regulatory, Health Care Compliance, Privacy, Employment, Tax, and other specialties.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience supporting complex commercial, manufacturing, healthcare/pharmaceutical, and/or global supply chain organizations.
- Ability to advise, challenge, and influence senior executives; strong judgment and practical risk assessment.
- Significant experience leading negotiations/transactions and strategic alliances.
- Strong strategic, operational, and financial acumen.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional/global initiatives in a matrixed, regulated, fast-moving environment.
- Experience leading/coaching teams and fostering inclusive, high-performance culture.
- License to practice law in at least one jurisdiction; minimum 10 years’ experience.
Preferred Skills
Business Agility, Compliance Management, Critical Thinking, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Program Management, Strategic Thinking.
Benefits (time off)
- Vacation: 120 hours/year; Sick time: 40 hours/year (or 48 CO / 56 WA); Holiday pay incl. Floating Holidays: 13 days/year; Work/Personal/Family Time: up to 40 hours/year; Parental Leave: 480 hours; Bereavement Leave: 240 hours (immediate)/40 hours (extended); Caregiver Leave: 80 hours (52-week rolling); Volunteer Leave: 32 hours/year; Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours/year.
- Serve as primary legal advisor for Innovative Medicine Supply Chain (Value Chain Management), including network strategy, supply chain business development, licensing, strategic alliances, and complex commercial transactions.
- Provide practical counsel to manufacturing, procurement, and supply operations on key strategic/operational priorities.
- Advise on global logistics, distribution, deliver operations, inventory management, supply resilience and continuity in a highly regulated environment.
- Lead negotiation of significant strategic, commercial, and operational agreements.
- Identify, assess, and manage legal, regulatory, commercial, geopolitical, and reputational risks.
- Provide thought leadership on emerging supply chain regulation, ESG, trade controls, sanctions, governance, and digital transformation.
- Coordinate cross-functional legal support across IP, Regulatory, Health Care Compliance, Privacy, Employment, Tax, and other specialties.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience supporting complex commercial, manufacturing, healthcare/pharmaceutical, and/or global supply chain organizations.
- Ability to advise, challenge, and influence senior executives; strong judgment and practical risk assessment.
- Significant experience leading negotiations/transactions and strategic alliances.
- Strong strategic, operational, and financial acumen.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional/global initiatives in a matrixed, regulated, fast-moving environment.
- Experience leading/coaching teams and fostering inclusive, high-performance culture.
- License to practice law in at least one jurisdiction; minimum 10 years’ experience.
Preferred Skills
Business Agility, Compliance Management, Critical Thinking, Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, Program Management, Strategic Thinking.
Benefits (time off)
- Vacation: 120 hours/year; Sick time: 40 hours/year (or 48 CO / 56 WA); Holiday pay incl. Floating Holidays: 13 days/year; Work/Personal/Family Time: up to 40 hours/year; Parental Leave: 480 hours; Bereavement Leave: 240 hours (immediate)/40 hours (extended); Caregiver Leave: 80 hours (52-week rolling); Volunteer Leave: 32 hours/year; Military Spouse Time-Off: 80 hours/year.