On Lada's Bucket List:
Learn to speak Italian; travel to learn about history and cultures.
CV:
With a career at Johnson & Johnson that spans 25 years, Lada Kecman has brought invaluable knowledge and strategic oversight in the areas of development, manufacturing, systems engineering, project management, and process and execution excellence to the global company’s supply chain organization.
As VP, Supply Chain Systems and Solutions for the Johnson & Johnson Supply Chain (JJSC), her role is to drive business improvements and standardization of business processes and systems technology solutions, in partnership with global IT, across multiple business segments within J&J supply chain. Her organization is uniquely positioned to drive integration of the traditional physical manufacturing space with enterprise business applications, blurring the physical and digital world.
Ms. Kecman recognizes the need to implement groundbreaking technologies and tactical internal processes to stay on the leading edge of life sciences supply chain innovation. This requires not only changes to the physical infrastructure and investments in technologies, but also a change of mindset, executive sponsorship, adoption of new institutional and individual skills, and organizational agility.
Under her leadership, JJSC has established an integrated enterprise-to-enterprise product-view technology and methodology to experience the full product journey from the lab to the patient, as well as a new business model in which technology innovation is driven. Ms. Kecman also helped to introduce new capabilities such as mobile technologies, augmented reality, and advanced analytics to teach supply chain employees new skills to prepare JJSC to enter the next industry revolution.
Ms. Kecman says she follows logic, sometimes to a fault, but she seeks to balance that with humor. “Having intellect and wit balances my engineering mindset against my playful, more compassionate side,” she says.
She is committed to transforming the organization and industry by harvesting the passion and potential of people and technology. Ms. Kecman is motivated by the possibilities the industry has to offer and her commitment to her team and customers.
Success, she says, is measured in the long-term, based on her career, reputation, and credibility as a leader across geographical boundaries and functional boundaries.
In 2017, PharmaVOICE publication has named Lada Kecman, among year’s “100 Most Inspiring Life Science Leaders.” This annual, peer-nominated award recognizes individuals for their positive contributions to the industry and for their ability to innovate and develop breakthrough strategies, products and services to improve the lives of patients worldwide.