Manager, Agile Procurement

Role Summary

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies is recruiting for a Manager, Agile Procurement, for our Innovative Medicine Research & Development Procurement team. The location is United States (Titusville PA, Spring House PA, Raritan NJ) or Beerse, Belgium.

Responsibilities

• Understand the Janssen R&D priorities and partner with Procurement Category Leaders to devise strategies that advance those priorities
• Collaborate with business leaders to ensure Procurement strategies meet the business needs, and are adopted within the business
• Identify industry trends that Procurement must incorporate in its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to the business
• Lead strategic sourcing events and negotiations
• Deliver against performance targets for the Janssen Procurement organization

Qualifications

• Required:
  • A Bachelor's Degree is required, and an MBA or other advanced degree is desirable
  • Minimum 5 years related experience is required
  • Understanding challenges through the eyes of business leaders
  • Able to persuade others to change behavior in pursuit of a common goal
  • Strong leadership and collaboration skills at the senior executive level, as well as with peers
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills, able to expertly present complex information to senior executives
  • Broad-based understanding of core procurement areas of focus including spend management, source-to-pay
  • Strong project and change management capabilities
  • Proven learning agility, improving both yourself and the people around you
• Preferred:
  • Preferred experience in Life Sciences, Med Technology or FMCG sectors
  • Demonstrated agile behaviors
  • High level of credibility with internal customers, and with the supplier community, based on broad experience
  • Track record in leading cross-functional teams and driving significant change programs
  • Multi-category experience across varying geographies and businesses
  • Flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment

Skills

• Agile Methodology
• Agile Product Development
• Agile Software Development
• Agile Workforce
• Change Control Management
• Coaching
• Compliance Management
• Developing Others
• Diplomacy
• Emotional Intelligence
• Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Inclusive Leadership
• Job Scheduling Software
• Leadership
• Organizational Design
• Process Optimization
• Software Development Management
• Team Management

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree required; MBA or other advanced degree desirable

Additional Requirements

• 10% travel requirement - international and US domestic (if applicable)