Manager Procurement Principal Cost Engineer

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:

Supply Chain Planning

Job Sub Function:

Integrated Business Planning

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Irvine, California, United States of America, Raritan, New Jersey, United States of America, West Chester, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Manager Procurement Principal Cost Engineer in West Chester, PA; Cincinnati, OH; Raritan, NJ; or Irvine, CA.

About MedTech

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments.

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

The Manager, Procurement Electrical Cost Engineering is a senior technical authority and strategic partner within the MedTech Supply Chain Procurement organization, with a focused remit on electronics & electromechanical assemblies. This role embeds advanced cost engineering and should cost modelling capabilities for PCBAs, cables and harnesses, sensors, electromechanical components, and assemblies into procurement, R&D and operations. Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the role enables fact-based negotiations, drives supplier value creation, and improves margin and product competitiveness through earlier cost influence in the product lifecycle and deep Electronics Manufacturing Services (EMS) expertise.
 

Core responsibilities
• Serve as the primary cost engineering partner for electronics-related sourcing, providing subject matter expertise across PCBAs, cable harnesses, sensors, connectors, actuators/motors, electromechanical assemblies and related passive/active components.
• Build, maintain and own detailed should cost models at BOM and process routing level for PCBAs, discrete cables/harnesses, sensor subassemblies and electromechanical modules to support strategic sourcing, RFPs, contract renewals and complex negotiations.
• Translate BOM, routing, test and yield inputs into transparent cost structures (material, labor, manufacturing overhead, NRE, test) and identify cost levers and opportunities for value creation.
• Partner with Procurement leadership to set should cost coverage targets, prioritization criteria and engagement guidelines tailored to the electronics portfolio and business needs.
• Work upstream with R&D / NPD teams to conduct Design for Manufacturing (DFM), Design for Test (DFT), should cost modelling and cost trade off analyses that reduce lifecycle cost while maintaining product quality and regulatory compliance.
• Support engagements with electronics contract manufacturers , component suppliers, and cable harness companies to calibrate should cost assumptions, understand capacity/footprint issues, and structure supplier specific value delivery plans (cost reduction, yield improvement, operational efficiency improvements, vertical sourcing).
• Lead supplier benchmarking and industry cost intelligence for electronics markets (commodity trends, silicon and passives pricing, labor rates, test costs, tooling amortization) and maintain an accessible cost benchmark library.
• Use digital and data analytics (including AI where appropriate) to scale cost model generation, identify outliers, automate scenario analysis, and improve time to insight.
• Support Procurement gross savings delivery, multi-year value creation pipelines and Market Movement Forecasting (MMF) performance through rigorous ideation of cost savings and sustained margin pro