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**Job Function: **
Project/Program Management Group
**Job Sub Function: **
Project/Program Management
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
At Johnson & Johnson MedTech, we’re pioneering smarter, less invasive, and personalized treatments to improve patient outcomes worldwide. Your talents will help shape the future of healthcare.
As the Senior Manager Surgery SC Procurement New Product Development (NPD), you will be responsible for key launches across the Wound Closure & Healing, Biosurgery, and Drug Delivery portfolios within Johnson & Johnson Medical Technologies. This multifaceted role requires critical thinking, cross-functional teamwork, strong procurement and business acumen and a passion for driving value through innovative sourcing.
Located in Raritan, NJ, you will lead supplier evaluation, selection, and qualification for key NPD launches, in alignment with procurement strategies, ensuring quality, service, cost, and compliance.
The position holder will manage 1-2 direct reports.
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.
Supplier Management and Category Strategy Execution
- 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.
- Collaborate with category leads and supplier relationship managers, to conduct Business Review meetings with suppliers that include comprehensive supplier performance management and review.
- Understand long range requirements to ensure alignment; understand and execute according to applicable category sourcing strategies.
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.
Team Management
- Set clear goals, priorities, and performance measures to ensure alignment with business objectives while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and innovation within the team.
- Manage talents, provide coaching and guidance to team members.
Qualifications:
- Minimum of Bachelor’s Degree is 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
- Master’s Degree or MBA preferred
- 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
Additional Details
- Proficiency in English required
- Up to 20% domestic and international travel
Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers . internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$122,000.00 - $212,750.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: - https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits