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**Job Function: **
Supply Chain Deliver
**Job Sub Function: **
Deliver Excellence
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Raynham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Remote (US)
Job Description:
We are searching for the best talent to join our Orthopaedics team as a** Vice President, US Supply Chain **to be located preferably in **Raynham, MA or other Orthopaedic office locations. **
**Remote work options may be considered on a case-by-case basis and if approved by the Company. Candidates must be willing to travel as needed. **
Purpose:
The Vice President, US Supply Chain provides enterprise leadership and strategic direction for Supply Chain Management across the United States. This role is accountable for translating business strategy into a cohesive supply chain strategy with short to medium term impact (1–3 years), ensuring operational excellence, cost effectiveness, compliance, and responsiveness to patient, customer, and employee needs.
Operating as a senior enterprise leader, the VP collaboratively partners with internal and external stakeholders to align supply chain objectives with organizational mission, business priorities, and long term growth objectives. The role is inherently cross functional and spans logistics, distribution, operations, inventory, and vendor management.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Governance
- Adapts overall business strategy into a functional supply chain strategy with short‑ to medium‑term impact across the business.
- Undertakes long‑term strategic planning, contributes to organizational policy development, and allocates resources to drive growth, efficiency, and diversification.
- Develops strong relationships with senior leaders and key decisionmakers to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.
- Implement Global Supply Chain initiatives ensuring clear efficiency gains, cost reduction and improved service levels
Culture, Organizational, People Leadership
- Aligns Johnson & Johnson’s Credo and Leadership Imperatives with business strategies, functional goals, and day‑to‑day decision‑making.
- Demonstrates enterprise thinking, cross‑functional leadership, and accountability for outcomes that advance organizational objectives.
- Serves as a role model for inclusive leadership, ethical decision‑making, and professional excellence
- Forster high-engagement environment by leading, developing and empowering teams, ensuring a culture of accountability, collaboration and continues improvement.
- Build and lead a high-performing team while ensuring full adherence to company principles, compliance controls, embedding a culture where regulatory and operational integrity is paramount.
- Sets direction and establishes the operating model, governance, and capabilities that enable Directors and Managers to design, scale, and continuously improve operational and functional processes across their teams.
- Creates a purpose‑driven culture in which decisions and actions are informed by patient, customer, and employee needs.
Supply Chain Operations & Performance
- Provides enterprise oversight of “In market planning”, warehousing, Transportation, distribution, asset efficiency and inventory systems to deliver a sustainable and resilient supply chain strategy.
- Establishes and controls systems, processes, and governance to drive operational excellence and continuous improvement.
- Develops, monitors, and reports Supply Chain key performance indicators (KPIs).
- Drive effective asset management, ensuring optimal utilization, lifecycle oversight, and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Lead inventory and portfolio field management , ensuring optimal stock levels, controls (accuracy), product availability, and alignment with business objectives.
- Leverage technology, AI, and benchmarks to enhance supply chain performance, optimizing cost while elevating quality and service levels.
Stakeholder & Program Leadership
- Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure the Supply Chain Management plan of action aligns with organizational mission and stakeholder needs.
- Directs enterprise programs that highlight initiatives, activities, and achievements that enhance the organization’s visibility and reputation.
- Ensures alignment across functions to optimize execution and outcomes.
Financial, Compliance & Operational Management
- Be accountable for the US supply Chain Budget and P&L performance, driving financial discipline and delivering on profitability and margin acceleration targets
- Ensure robust controls and compliance in managing financials, orders, and payments safeguarding integrity while achieving DPO , working capital KPIs ensuring good relationships with our strategic partners.
- Ensures disciplined execution and accountability across the supply chain organization.
Job Family Characteristics
Roles in this job family:
- Work to achieve the organization’s operational and financial goals.
- Operate through a hierarchy of managers and supervisors to control, direct, and participate in organizational activities.
- Are responsible for long‑term strategic planning, policy determination, and resource allocation.
- Drive decisions related to organizational growth and diversification.
- Are cross‑functional in nature and cannot be matched to a single job family group due to responsibility spanning multiple job function groups.
** Qualifications / Requirements:**
Required Experience
- Generally, requires 15 or more years of progressive professional experience, including significant leadership responsibility within Supply Chain, Operations, or related enterprise functions.
- Demonstrated experience leading large, complex organizations through a hierarchy of Senior Directors, Directors, Managers, senior individual contributors, and/or executive‑level leaders.
- Proven track record of translating enterprise business strategy into functional strategy with measurable operational and financial impact.
- Extensive experience overseeing logistics, distribution, operations, inventory management, asset management and end‑to‑end supply chain systems.
- Demonstrated accountability for establishing, monitoring, and reporting supply chain performance metrics, including cost, quality, responsiveness, and vendor performance.
- Experience managing operational governance, including budgets, performance management, compliance, and enterprise risk considerations.
- Strong experience collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, including senior leaders and key decision‑makers, to align functional outcomes with organizational priorities.
- Demonstrated ability to lead within a cross‑functional, enterprise job family, supporting long‑term strategic planning, policy development, and resource allocation.
- Proven experience leading corporate transformations, with a track record of implementing technology-driven initiatives that deliver measurable business impact.
Preferred Experience
- Executive‑level experience leading multi‑disciplinary or geographically diverse supply chain teams.
- Experience driving enterprise‑wide supply chain transformation initiatives that improve sustainability, resilience, cost efficiency, and service levels.
- Demonstrated success benchmarking and improving vendor performance through data‑driven insights and performance management processes.
- Established success optimizing supply chain and financial drivers in an accelerated environment
- Proven ability to build and sustain a high‑performance, purpose‑driven culture, aligning organizational values, leadership imperatives, and business strategy.
- Experience operating in highly regulated, matrixed, or complex enterprise environments.
- Strong executive presence with the ability to influence, lead change, and achieve alignment across diverse stakeholders.
Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech
_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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About Orthopaedics
Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.
Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Orthopaedics? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Orthopaedics teams help keep more than 6 million people moving each year while delivering clinical and economic value to surgeons and healthcare systems. Our teams build solutions for joint reconstruction; trauma and craniomaxillofacial; sports, extremities, and elective foot and ankle; spine; and robotics and digital surgery.
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.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Budget Management, Business Savvy, Commercial Awareness, Compliance Frameworks, Continuous Improvement, Developing Others, Distribution Management, Distribution Resource Planning (DRP), Fact-Based Decision Making, Financial Competence, Inclusive Leadership, Interpersonal Influence, Leadership, Lean Supply Chain Management, Operational Excellence, Order Management, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Strategic Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Resilience
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$199,000.00 - $366,850.00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.
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