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**Job Function: **
Procurement
**Job Sub Function: **
Procurement Business Engagement Leads
Job Category:
Professional
All Job Posting Locations:
Zug, Switzerland
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a **Senior Manager, Packaging Team Leader **within the MedTech Procurement Team. This position can be located Zug, Switzerland. Alternative locations Jacksonville, FL, US or Raritan, NJ (US). R-075422
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity.
The Senior Manager, Packaging Team Leader will oversee a global team of category managers & SRMs responsible for developing and executing strategies across the primary packaging portfolio (Thermoforms, Tyvek & Films, Foils, etc.) and secondary packaging (Cartons, Corrugates, IFUs…) for MedTech Business Units (Surgery, EPNV, Vision). This leader will set a strategic direction, ensure alignment with corporate goals, and build a high-performing team that delivers profitability increase, innovation, resilience, cost optimization, and sustainability in packaging supply.
Success in this role requires a customer-centric mindset, ensuring that internal stakeholders —including R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Marketing—are engaged as key customers. By understanding their priorities and translating them into procurement strategies, the leader will position Packaging Procurement as a trusted partner that enables product innovation, compliance, and commercial success.
Key Responsibilities:
Sourcing
- Lead or support sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners, Influence decisions, delivering ongoing value improvements while driving competitive advantage.
- Develop spend analysis and bring together market intelligence in alignment with business goals.
- Identify emerging needs within a specific area of focus and develop the vision, strategy and implementation plan that will optimally meet the long-range requirements of the business partners and deliver the maximum value for J&J
- Develop and lead price and cost initiatives; Prepare and complete RFQs for medium to high complexity sourcing decisions; Conduct negotiations with suppliers.
- Collaborate with supplier leadership to assure alignment of J&J’s objectives are met, including quality, reliability, innovation, and cost
- Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.
- Build and maintain relationships throughout J&J that results in interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of efficient approaches and solutions.
Category Strategy Development
- Develop and/or support the category sourcing strategy for the defined portfolio through Business needs assessment, Market intelligence, Supplier evaluations and sourcing choices.
- Understand long range requirements to ensure alignment; Develop and implement sourcing strategy.
Supplier Management
- Develop and lead or support supplier partnerships to drive performance delivery, risk mitigation, and value through supplier enabled innovation.
- Cultivate and use strategic relationships with key business partners (e.g., Internal partners, supplier leadership) to craft, optimize, and diversify the supply base.
- Develop innovative and balanced solutions to identify and mitigate risk, drive long-term, end-to-end value, and achieve unmet business needs. Identify and pursue opportunities to develop supplier capabilities.
- Conduct Business Review meetings with suppliers that include comprehensive supplier performance management and review.
Contracting
- Use procurement expertise and global business understanding to implement contracts.
- Ensure that agreements and the manner they are performed meet business demands of all collaborators and are aligned with the organization’s overall procurement and business strategy.
Project Support
- Represent procurement in End-to-End Supply Chain initiatives of the manufacturing network, digital tools/technology adoption, and resiliency.
Qualifications
Education:
- Master’s Degree or MBA preferred
Experience and Skills:
**Required: **
- At least 8 years of procurement or supply chain experience across fields such as manufacturing, operations, procurement, or distribution
- Strong understanding of core procurement functions: Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing, Supplier Management
- Proven leadership, teamwork, and influencing skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Analytical mindset with problem-solving competence
- Project management experience leading cross-functional initiatives
- Business and financial competence, with negotiation expertise
- Ability to communicate effectively across organizational levels
Preferred:
- Proven experience within Medical Devices or Healthcare is a plus
- Proven experience in Packaging Procurement
- Familiarity with regional and global regulatory and quality standards in healthcare packaging (ISO, FDA, MDR, UDI, serialization, PPWR etc.).
- Certification: CPSM, CSCP, CPIM, PMP, or Six Sigma Green/Black Belt (preferred)
- Knowledge of ERP, SAP, MRP systems, and Advanced Planning tools
- Experience with Process Excellence and Six Sigma methodologies
Other:
- Proficiency in English required
- Up to 20% domestic and international travel
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**Required Skills: **
Preferred Skills:
Business Data Analysis, Business Requirements Analysis, Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Change Management, Compliant Spend, Continuous Improvement, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Critical Thinking, Financial Competence, Industry Analysis, Mentorship, Negotiation, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Procurement, Procurement Policies, Procurement Systems, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Supplier Collaboration, Technical Credibility, Vendor Management