Samir is an experienced global leader with extensive experience within healthcare and FMCG industry to drive strategic transformation and execution through innovation mindset, proven ability to develop talent / capability and accelerate value creation.
Samir currently is Senior Director, Advanced Customer Collaboration and Capabilities within J&J’s Janssen/Pharma Supply Chain where he is accountable to build advanced capabilities and ecosystem with focus on Customer Value Chain, to fuel growth and drive collaboration with global priority markets and our strategic customers to drive competitive advantage, gather market intelligence and technology sensing to deploy key capabilities in support of Customer Promise across Janssen business. He leads J&J’s Global IoT enabled Track n Trace Program to enable Supply Chain Visibility to drive agility and resilience.
Prior to his current role, Samir has spent 12 years within our Medical Device Supply Chain across operations and strategic transformation leadership roles in increasing capacity across North America, LATAM and APAC regions. Samir has also spent his time as a Technology / Program Management Leader fueling growth at GE Industrial Systems and Guidant businesses outside of J&J. Samir began his career with Johnson & Johnson in as a Process Engineer within our Consumer business and progressed to lead Business Unit Operations.
Samir holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Production Engineering from Saurashtra University, India, and a Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from New Jersey Institute of Technology. Samir has participated in several Johnson & Johnson leadership programs and is a certified GE Certified Master Black Belt with extensive experience in Process Excellence and Design for Reliability / Manufacturability.