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Hybrid Senior Manager, MedTech Procurement – Marketing Category, Agencies and Media
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About the role
- Senior Manager in MedTech Procurement specializing in marketing strategies with J&J’s Agencies and Media category. Leading category execution, supplier management, and cost optimization initiatives in a complex spend environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategy and execution of MedTech Marketing – Agencies and Media category and related sub-categories / commodities.
- Design forward-looking strategies that advance business priorities, balancing cost, growth enablement, risk, speed, and sustainability.
- Collaborate with senior business leaders to ensure Procurement strategies meet business needs, are socialized effectively, and are adopted within the business.
- Develop and leverage deep expertise to proactively identify and implement cost-saving measures and establish a robust value delivery pipeline.
- Identify critical industry market and supply trends and embed them into category strategies to maintain sustainable relevance for MedTech.
- Lead and provide oversight to the Agile Team and Global Services Team on the operational execution of global category strategies and their implementation, including sourcing events and negotiations.
- Lead complex, high-stakes negotiations for owned categories ensuring value creation, risk mitigation, compliance, and relationship outcomes.
- Monitor supplier contracts and lead contract negotiations as needed.
- Lead supplier relationship management process, ensuring speed-to-value, risk management, and supplier performance management.
- Build strategic supplier partnerships that unlock innovation, enable commercial solutions and bring value to the organization.
- Deliver cash flow improvement by optimizing payment terms to suppliers.
- Support the J&J One Procurement strategy and execute joint collaborative initiatives.
- Own delivery against Procurement performance targets within the role’s remit; establish dashboards and lead reviews to ensure target achievement.
- Uphold ethical sourcing, data privacy, anti-bribery/anti-corruption standards, and contracting governance; anticipate and address regional risks proactively.
- Identify opportunities to advance digital and functional capabilities in category strategies, supplier performance management, and risk mitigation to drive speed, precision, and innovation.
Requirements
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree (e.g. Business, Engineering, Science) required, preferably complemented by MBA or other Master’s qualification
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience, preferably inside and outside Procurement and in different J&J sectors or industries
- Demonstrated skills in Strategic Procurement, Sourcing, Category and Supplier Management.
- Proven track record of developing and executing category strategies that deliver cost savings, mitigate risk, and improve supplier performance.
- Strong understanding of sourcing processes, contract lifecycle management, and supplier governance across diverse indirect spend areas.
- Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to partner effectively with internal functions such as Marketing, Legal, Finance.
- Excellent negotiation skills, with experience managing complex supplier relationships and high-value contracts.
- Strong business acumen with the ability to align sourcing initiatives to broader organizational goals.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to present to and influence senior leadership.
- Proficiency with procurement systems (e.g., SAP, Ariba) and comfort working with data in Excel; familiarity with analytics tools like Power BI or Tableau and AI is a plus.
- Strong business and finance acumen, deep understanding of managing for impact in complex matrix environment
- Proven ability to lead, influence, partner on & shape projects with / without direct team / authority; High level of credibility with internal customers, and with the supplier community, based on broad experience
- Strong user level with data analysis / visualization tools (e.g., Excel, Tableau, PowerBI) and AI tools (i.e. Gen AI and Agentic AI tools, desktop software (e.g., MS Office), eSourcing (SNOW, iCertis, ICD, Scout)
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 period
- Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
- Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
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