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Chief Operating Officer at Johnson & Johnson
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In 2020, when global PPE shortages threatened frontline healthcare workers, Mary Ellen McCann led Johnson & Johnson’s emergency reconfiguration of its consumer health supply chain, diverting manufacturing lines from Band-Aid production to surgical gowns and face shields within 17 days. She didn’t just scale capacity; she redesigned cross-functional governance, embedding real-time demand sensing with hospital systems in Lagos, São Paulo, and Detroit to prioritize distribution by outbreak severity, not purchase order size. Her approach treats supply chain not as a cost center but as a clinical intervention point, where latency in delivery equals measurable patient risk. That mindset reshaped J&J’s 2022 Global Health Access Framework, mandating dual-sourcing for all life-critical devices and requiring every operations hire to complete a week-long rotation in a low-resource clinic. She speaks in throughput metrics and equity thresholds, not just EBITDA, and her annual supplier scorecards now include community health impact alongside on-time delivery.
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