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**Job Function: **
Procurement
**Job Sub Function: **
Multi-Family Procurement
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, United States of America, Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Warsaw, Indiana, United States of America, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Orthopaedics business to establish a standalone Orthopaedics company, operating as DePuy Synthes. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 18 to 24 months, subject to legal requirements, including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as may be required, regulatory approvals and other customary conditions and approvals. Should you accept this position, it is anticipated that, following conclusion of the transaction, you would be an employee of DePuy Synthes, and your employment would be governed by DePuy Synthes employment processes, programs, policies, and benefit plans. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to you by DePuy Synthes at an appropriate time and subject to any necessary consultation processes.
About DePuy Synthes
DePuy Synthes is a global leader in Orthopaedics, advancing patient care through innovative solutions across joint reconstruction, trauma, spine, sports medicine, and related surgical technologies. As DePuy Synthes separates from Johnson & Johnson to become the world’s largest, most comprehensive Orthopaedics-focused company, the organization is entering a defining chapter—establishing its own corporate identity, voice, culture, and reputation while continuing to serve patients, customers, and healthcare systems around the world.
Position Overview
This role is accountable for leading all Indirect Services categories for Depuy Synthes for the global procurement organization representing approximately $2.2 B in annual spend. The Sr. Director will build the team, develop the vision, strategy, and implementation plan for these categories to meet the long-range requirements of the business and deliver maximum value for DePuy Synthes (DPS), as well as leading business engagement across International Markets.
Operating in a complex, matrixed global environment, the role has key accountability for business engagement, and ensuring Procurement strategy is executed across international markets. The business engagement responsibility entails a close partnership with senior business leaders, Business Engagement Leads, Finance, Legal, IT, HR, Risk/Compliance, and Procurement Operations to ensure efficient end-to-end management of sourcing, contracting, and requisition-to-pay activities. As a member of the DPS Procurement Leadership Team, this leader drives an inclusive, high-performance culture, leads strategic supplier relationships and major negotiations, and influences enterprise decision-making through governance, analytics, and stakeholder engagement.
Scope & Impact
- Global category ownership for indirect services categories comprised of Commercial, Business Services, R&D and CCFS categories.
- Accountable for category strategy, sourcing execution, supplier performance, and continuous improvement across the spend base.
- Leads and develops global category teams and enables cross-functional teams through governance, stakeholder management, and change leadership.
- Key contributor to the DPS Procurement Leadership Team, helping drive enterprise performance and an inclusive, high-engagement culture.
Key Responsibilities
Category Vision, Strategy & Planning
- Develop the vision, strategy, and implementation plan for all Indirect Services categories to meet long-range business requirements and deliver maximum value.
- Translate business and sector strategies into integrated, multi-year category roadmaps supported by market intelligence, demand analytics, and total cost of ownership (TCO) modeling.
- Identify industry and workforce trends that should be embedded into category strategies to strengthen capability, resilience, and employee experience.
Procurement Execution & Value Delivery
- Develop and execute procurement strategies aligned to business and sector needs; ensure clear value cases, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined execution.
- Ensure end-to-end execution of category strategies including sourcing, competitive bidding, negotiations, contracting, implementation, and supplier transition/change management.
- Deliver performance against established targets across the balanced scorecard (financial value, service, reliability, quality, risk, sustainability, and stakeholder satisfaction) and drive continuous improvement.
- Partner with Procurement operations to ensure efficient and effective requisition-to-pay adoption, contracting intake, compliance, and operational performance.
International Stakeholder & Leadership Engagement
- Serve as a member of the DPS Extended Procurement Leadership Team and contribute to enterprise priorities, operating rhythms, and an inclusive culture across the global team.
- Develop and drive the procurement vision throughout the stakeholder community; communicate strategies, decisions, and progress with executive-level clarity.
- Build and maintain relationships across DPS to enable dynamic dialogue and input critical to optimal approaches and solutions.
- Understand long-range business requirements and engage in strategic planning and partnering to ensure alignment; identify demand requirements and partner with Business Engagement Leads to deliver annual value improvements and competitive advantage.
- Interface with partner organizations to ensure governance, controls, and effective cross-functional delivery.
Supplier Relationship, Performance & Innovation
- Develop deep relationships with strategic suppliers supported by data review and analysis, performance management, end-to-end value delivery, and innovation pipelines.
- Interface directly with Sr. leaders and other supplier leadership to ensure objectives are met, including quality, reliability, innovation, and cost outcomes.
- Manage supplier relationships, execute joint collaborative initiatives, monitor performance, and drive resolution of issues to protect business continuity and service levels.
Portfolio, Governance & Risk Escalation
- Identify, develop, and direct the implementation of procurement goals and category strategies based on deep subject matter expertise and industry/market dynamics.
- Manage and prioritize a portfolio of procurement initiatives; define governance, milestones, and decision forums to ensure value capture and transparent trade-offs.
- Escalate issues that may impact the Global Procurement organization, including supplier risk, compliance concerns, service disruption, and strategic misalignment.
- Facilitate the development, implementation, and maintenance of processes, policies, guidelines, standard operating procedures, and business operating principles.
People Leadership
- Lead a team of approximately 18 employees
- Build and sustain organizational capability in category management, negotiation, supplier management, analytics, and change leadership; attract, retain, and develop diverse talent.
- Create a high-engagement environment with clear expectations, inclusive leadership behaviors, and strong performance management.
Qualifications & Education
- Master’s degree or equivalent preferred. Bachelor’s degree required (technical degree preferred)
- 12+ years comprehensive knowledge of and extensive experience with procurement business processes, practices and technology, including cross-functional and cross-geographic, team-based global category management, global technology deployment, best practices in social/economic and environmental strategies and preferably from similar or comparable industries.
- Clear understanding and demonstrated mastery of contemporary, best practice processes, systems, techniques, and KPI’s for supply chain/procurement are required.
- Experience in a product oriented, sales/marketing driven culture is required. Additionally, experience in a large, multi-national corporate environment would be useful.
- Proven track record of transforming and leading global procurement organizations in a complex, matrixed environment.
- Demonstrated expertise in supplier-driven innovation, category management, and operational excellence.
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate enterprise strategy into actionable procurement initiatives.
- Experience managing large-scale spend and third-party payments across diverse categories.
- Exceptional leadership, talent development, and organizational building skills.
- Advanced knowledge of procurement technologies, process optimization, and payment processing.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to influence executive stakeholders.
Skills and Capabilities
- Ability to build and inspire a talented team of procurement professionals with a strong service, partnering and delivery orientation.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a large multi business units’ environment across multiple lines of business, create teams and direct others toward a common purpose.
- Proven ability to establish partnerships internally and externally.
- Proven ability to create supply and supplier strategies.
- Ability to develop total cost of ownership and total systems value thinking and models.
- Ability to link external market conditions to internal opportunities.
- Ability to create enthusiasm and commitment and drive changes.
- Ability to solve complex problems and search for the “right solution”.
- Ability to travel independently to domestic and international business locations, understanding cultural business issues and requirements.
- Excellent supplier negotiation skills.
- Financial analysis skills.
- Operational intensity and urgency around delivering results, while respecting individuals and diverse cultures.
- Commitment to excellent customer value through collaboration and partnering.
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.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Benchmarking, Business Data Analysis, Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Compliant Spend, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Leadership, Market Savvy, Negotiation, Performance Measurement, Resource Planning, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Collaboration, Sustainable Procurement, Tactical Planning, Vendor Management, Vendor Selection
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$178,000.00 - $307,050.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: Vacation –120 hours 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