Director, IM Procurement, R&D Agile

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 https://www.jnj.com

Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family Procurement

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, Spring House, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

We are searching for the best talent for a Director, IM Procurement, R&D Agile to be in Raritan, New Jersey, Titusville, New Jersey, Spring House, Pennsylvania, or Beerse, Belgium.

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Purpose: The Director, Research & Development (R&D) Agile Procurement will be accountable for ensuring alignment between Procurement strategy, Janssen's Business Plan, and critical Therapeutic and Functional teams across the Global R&D business. This role requires a leader that is a strong relationship builder, strategic problem solver and influencer.

Are you interested in leading a dynamic team that shapes Janssen's ability to provide better outcomes for patients? Apply now for this exciting opportunity!

You will be responsible for:

• Ensure that the Procurement organization delivers results in support of Janssen strategies and objectives.
• Work to align Procurement's activities directly with business leaders inclusive of Therapeutic Area and Functional R&D, Finance, Legal, and Global Services teams.
• Lead operational execution of the Research and Development categories, and other categories when required, and their respective strategies for Janssen.
• Direct and manage a team of 6-8 people located in various regions and countries whose responsibility it is to understand the Janssen business and connect this with category strategies, ensuring optimal use of suppliers.
• Lead the operational execution of the global category strategies and their global and regional implementation, including the delivery of sourcing and contracting services for certain activities.
• Lead major strategic negotiations for owned categories, or on behalf of the Janssen business, as required.
• Build and manage relationships across Janssen that result in dynamic dialogue, a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of efficient approaches and solutions.
• Engage directly with budget owners at the Vice President & President level to drive business planning and strategic decision making across all relevant category spend families.
• Understand long range (3-5 year) requirements for Janssen R&D teams identified through strategic planning to guide development of category strategies and Procurement process.
• Identify business demand requirements and partner with Category Leaders to deliver annual value improvements and drive competitive advantage through the supplier base.
• Identify pharmaceutical industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to Janssen.
• Ensure drug discovery, preclinical, and clinical services are supported and prioritized within the category teams and work across all R&D Categories, Global Services, and Therapeutic Areas to ensure seamless execution to launch commitments.
• Lead resolution of sophisticated business problems in partnership with our supplier base including deployment of Supplier Enabled Innovation programs.
• Continuously monitor the needs of the business to ensure their requirements are met and implement Procurement process improvement where critical to achieve the same.
• Key business partner t