Senior Buyer/Planner - Shockwave

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:

Strategic Sourcing

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Description - External

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Senior Buyer/Planner – Shockwave Medical to join our team located in Santa Clara, CA.

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/.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Ready to join a team that’s pioneering the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Our Shockwave Medical portfolio aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.

Position Overview

The Senior Buyer/Planner will play a pivotal role in the development and production of our medical devices.  He/she will be responsible for procuring and planning goods and services for R&D and production to meet and maintain service levels, quality, cost/project budget, and targeted inventory levels. This also includes establishing and fostering relationships with suppliers, communicating, and negotiating with suppliers to ensure delivery schedules are met, best prices are obtained, and in compliance with regulatory requirements and Shockwave quality standards.

Essential Job Functions

• Sources, purchases, plans, and schedules the movement of raw materials, packaging materials, parts, components, and services including subcontract, supplies, finished goods, and related materials through the production and inventory process.   

• Reviews purchase requisitions for completeness; reviews support documentation, currency, payment terms, alignment of backup documentation to requisition, and clarity of description.

• Create purchase orders and provide monthly forecasts to suppliers based on production planning requirements. 

• Identifies raw material, components, and related requirements from engineering and production specifications and schedules. Coordinates quality matters and engineering/changes or developments to suppliers.   

• Apply various costing and pricing techniques to effectively negotiate the best pricing with suppliers and meet quality, reliability, and delivery objectives.  Examples of techniques include benchmark study, VA/VE, competitive bidding, BOM cost, should cost, etc.

• Coordinates and follows up with production, warehouse, and engineering personnel to ensure appropriate procurement, scheduling, and movement of materials and services.

• Monitors status of open purchase orders to ensure on-time delivery of all materials, including timely resolution, communication, and mitigation of future potential issues.  Expedite material delivery or explore other possible options with suppliers to avoid parts stock out.   

• Resolves issues regarding PO to invoice discrepancies, returns, quality issues, and non-conformances with suppliers.

• Supports R&D group for early supplier selection and cost negotiation; init