Director, MedTech Procurement Americas Business Engagement & Agile Lead

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:

Procurement Business Engagement Leads

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Director, MedTech Procurement Americas Business Engagement & Agile Lead. This position is in New Jersey.

A pre-identified candidate has already been identified.

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/

Position Overview

 The Business Engagement & Agile Lead is accountable for ensuring that the Procurement organization delivers results in support of the NA and LATAM MedTech business strategy and objectives. Reporting to the Senior Director, MedTech Business Engagement Leader Americas, this role will lead Procurement engagement with selected business units and regions including, Company Presidents, Platform Leaders, regional business leaders, franchise finance directors and other relevant cross-functional partners to align Procurement’s activities in support of the business.  This role will sit on the MedTech Procurement Extended Leadership Team and help set the functional strategy for the sector.

Responsibilities:

• Orchestrate the delivery of procurement services across the One Procurement operating model (MedTech Procurement and Global Services Procurement including Service Delivery).

• Understand long range requirements of the MedTech business and engage in strategic planning and collaboration to ensure Procurement alignment to those requirements

• Identify MedTech industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to the business

• Lead strategic projects designed to address the most pressing business challenges

• Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments

• Anticipate business demand requirements and partner with Category Leads to deliver annual value improvements that drive competitive advantage

• Build and maintain relationships throughout J&J that result in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions

• Motivate, lead, and develop a team of both direct reports and non-direct reports consisting of category and agile resources across geographies

• Lead resource management leveraging the use of agile practices and tools to manage prioritization, capacity, etc.

• Participate in the MedTech Procurement Extended Leadership Team, to support the function globally in the achievement of MedTech business objectives

• Escalate issues that may impact the business or Global Procurement organization

Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in a business related field, MBA a plus.

• Strong business acumen – the ability to understand challenges through the eyes of the business leaders

• Influencing skills – the ability 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, with the ability to confidently present complex information to senior executives

• Broad-based understanding of core procurement areas of focus (spend management, category management and supplier management)