Senior Director, Category

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Job Function:
Procurement

Job Sub Function:
Category

Job Category:
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine ("JJIM") is recruiting for a Senior Director to lead our New Product Development and Supply category in R&D Procurement globally.

This role can be located in Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ, New Brunswick, NJ, Horsham, PA, Spring House, PA.

This role is accountable for assessing the external market, understanding our business priorities and setting the strategic direction for approximately $800M in annual spend.

This spend is critical to J&J Innovative Medicine achieving our goals in meeting the needs of patients around the world and leading where medicine is going.

Are you interested in applying your business and financial savvy to impact the lives of patients?

Key Responsibilities:

· Understand JJIM business needs globally in the categories, and devise Procurement strategies to advance those priorities

· Identify industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to the JJIM business

· Lead and develop the category team of 9 FTEs, responsible for global category strategy development and implementation, and key supplier management, for the relevant categories

· Lead major strategic negotiations for owned categories on behalf of the JJIM business

· Be the Business Engagement Leader with key functional heads and senior business leaders, to ensure alignment with regional business strategies

· Participate in the JJIM R&D Procurement Leadership Team to provide leadership to the function regionally in the achievement of business objectives

· Shape performance targets for the JJIM Procurement organization in the role’s areas of responsibility, and ensure target achievement

· At times, sponsor JJIM Procurement initiatives to deliver standardized process and value across the organization as a member of the JJIM Extended Leadership Team (ELT).

Qualifications

Education:

· Bachelors Degree is required, MBA or further advanced degree is desirable

Experience and Skills:

Required:

· Strong business insight– the ability to understand challenges through the eyes of the regional business leaders

· Influencing skills – the ability to persuade others to change behavior in pursuit of a common goal

· Strong leadership and collaboration a...