Lead Specialist, Data Analytics & Governance

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com

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Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Category

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for Lead Specialist, Data Analytics & Governance to work hybrid out of the Danvers, MA facility.

About Cardiovascular

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 Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients.

Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Purpose: The Lead Specialist supports the Data Analytics & Governance Team and the Global Procurement organization by driving pivotal initiatives such as performance management (PMO), capacity assessments, and leading key analytics for the procurement community (e.g., spend, savings, ...). They define and implement foundational data structures, including supplier and material categorization, and develop performance management tools like scorecards across multiple areas, which directly impact procurement performance indicators and governance. Additionally, this role contributes to digitalization efforts to advance procurement solutions and improve overall efficiency.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Manage governance processes within Global Procurement to drive consistency of project execution.

• Support and co-lead performance management activities, covering all performance indicators, including organizational change and reporting.

• Support on maintaining and improving the Supplier Capacity Program (short and long term analysis).

• Develop and maintain dashboards across pillars within Global Procurement (e.g., supplier performance, financial stewardship, ...).

• Support the pillar Contracting Excellence, by building and maintaining transparency on contracting coverage for Global Procurement.

• Support Leadership and Category Managers for quarterly business reviews with suppliers, including top to top meetings.

• Support Leadership Team for annual business planning, including definition of goals and strategic measures, and long-range planning.

• Support Leadership on ad-hoc requests as needed.

• Handle and control documentation and activities across Global Procurement team.

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

• Master’s degree would be highly beneficial

• Minimum 4 years of work experience

• Minimum of 3 years in data analytics, handling complex dataset and ensuring data quality

• Minimum 2 years experience in project management

• Experience in performance management, by crafting frameworks, reporting, and monitoring.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES, CERTIFICATIONS/LICENSES and AFFILIATIONS

• Superb communication and internal-customer management

• Customer and agile approach

• Attention to details and understand interdependencies when creatin