Senior Manager, EM Procurement

Johnson & Johnson; Zug; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson seeks a Senior Manager in External Manufacturing Procurement Strategy & Warehousing Initiatives to guide strategic programs across a global supplier network. Based in Zug, Switzerland, or in Beerse/Geel Belgium, Cork Ireland, Leiden Netherlands, the role partners with EM Global Category leadership to drive outcomes and value.

You will lead critical initiatives, shape warehousing and capacity projects, and influence decisions with limited direct authority, while ensuring

Responsibilities

• Lead High-Impact Cross-Functional Programs: own the integrated portfolio of EM strategic initiatives with defined outcomes, roadmaps, milestones and accountabilities.
• Strategic Warehousing, Capacity & Space Projects: provide strategic leadership for external warehousing, overflow storage, capacity and space planning as part of the EM portfolio.
• Business Performance, Value & Financial Leadership: lead EM budget planning and financial forecasting; own savings, productivity and risk across the portfolio.

Job description

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 .

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit.

Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Category

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Geel, Antwerp, Belgium, Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

Senior Manager, EM Procurement Strategy & Warehousing Initiatives

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement Strategy & Warehousing Initiatives to be based in Zug, Switzerland or Geel/Beerse Belgium, Cork Ireland, Leiden Netherlands.

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 Summary

The Senior Manager, EM Procurement Strategy & Warehousing Initiatives is a strategic delivery role within External Manufacturing Procurement. The role partners with the EM Global Category Leader and subcategory leaders to convert priorities into clear programs, decisions and measurable outcomes across a complex global supplier landscape.

The position directly leads selected business-critical initiatives, establishes portfolio governance, develops insights for leadership decisions, and drives cross-functional execution. As part of this broader portfolio, the role may also lead selected strategic external warehousing, overflow-storage and capacity projects where focused procurement leadership is required.

The role requires the ability to challenge constructively, influence stakeholders without direct authority, and move ambiguous initiatives from concept to implementation. The position is accountable for structuring problems, shaping recommendations, enabling decisions and driving outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

1. Lead High-Impact Cross-Functional Programs
   • Own the integrated portfolio of EM strategic initiatives, translating category priorities into defined outcomes, roadmaps, milestones, decision points and accountabilities.
   • Lead selected enterprise and EM initiatives from scoping through implementation, with direct accountability for outcomes rather than coordination alone.
   • Current examples may include late-stage customization, A&D integration activities, supplier or contract programs and future strategic initiatives identified through the EM portfolio.
   • Create executive-ready recommendations where projects require strategic choices, investment decisions, supplier engagement or operating-model changes.
2. Strategic Warehousing, Capacity & Space Projects
   • Provide strategic procurement leadership for selected external warehousing, overflow-storage, capacity and warehouse-space requirements as part of the broader EM project portfolio, rather than as a full-time warehousing category role.
   • Partner with Supply Chain, Deliver, Manufacturing and other stakeholders to translate business requirements into clear sourcing strategies, commercial options and fact-based recommendations.
   • Lead or support market assessments, supplier strategies, sourcing events, commercial evaluations and negotiations for selected warehousing and logistics projects.
   • Shape recommendations that balance capacity flexibility, cost-to-serve, service, compliance, business continuity and risk.
   • Contribute procurement insight to network, footprint, capacity and overflow-space decisions, and establish appropriate supplier governance where projects transition into operation.
3. Business Performance, Value & Financial Leadership
   • Lead the orchestration of EM business planning, budget planning and financial forecasting activities in partnership with Finance and category leadership.
   • Own the consolidated view of savings, productivity, value creation, commitments, risks and opportunities across the portfolio.
   • Challenge assumptions, identify performance gaps and drive recovery a