Director, Procurement - Shockwave Medical

Johnson Johnson; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is hiring a Director of Procurement for Shockwave Medical in Santa Clara, CA. The role leads global procurement for Circulatory Restoration, overseeing direct and indirect sourcing and supplier relationships.

Responsibilities include defining multi-year strategies, driving cost initiatives, and building a robust supplier network while partnering with R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Commercial teams.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Circulatory Restoration procurement initiatives.
• Direct material planning, purchasing, indirect procurement, and strategic sourcing.

Responsibilities

• Define a multi-year procurement and category strategy aligned with growth, margin, quality, and continuity goals.
• Deliver total-cost, productivity, working-capital, and innovation improvements.
• Build a scalable supplier and contract manufacturing network.
• Lead high-value or high-risk negotiations and agreements.
• Partner across R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Commercial teams.
• Advance procurement transformation including data standards, ERP, and analytics.
• Establish KPIs and executive reporting with compliance and ethics.
• Build a high-performing procurement organization with succession and capability plans.

Skills

Strategic procurement

Supplier management

Leadership

Negotiations

Analytics

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

Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family Procurement

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Director, Procurement - Shockwave Medica l to join our team located in Santa Clara, CA.

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 Global Procurement Director provides leadership and strategic direction for all Circulatory Restoration procurement activities, including direct material planning and purchasing, indirect procurement, and strategic sourcing. This role is accountable for ensuring material availability, supplier performance, cost competitiveness, supply continuity, and effective execution of procurement strategies in support of business, operational, and customer requirements.

Essential Job Functions

• Enterprise strategy and partnership: Define a multi-year procurement and category strategy aligned with growth, portfolio, margin, quality, and continuity goals; advise senior leaders using market, spend, and scenario insights.
• Value creation: Deliver total-cost, productivity, working-capital, demand-management, and commercial-innovation improvements.
• Supply resilience: Build a scalable, diversified supplier and contract manufacturing network; anticipate capacity, geopolitical, financial, quality, technology, and single-source risks.
• Supplier and commercial leadership: Segment and govern critical suppliers, strengthen performance and innovation, and lead high-value or high-risk negotiations and agreements.
• Product lifecycle enablement: Partner across R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Commercial teams on design-to-value, supplier selection, NPI readiness, scaling, transitions, and end-of-life plans.
• Procurement transformation: Advance the operating model, governance, policies, processes, data standards, ERP, automation, analytics, and decision-support capabilities.
• Performance and compliance: Establish KPIs and executive reporting while maintaining ethical sourcing, audit readiness, delegated authority, quality-system requirements, and legal compliance.
• Organizational leadership: Build a high-performing procurement organization with the capabilities, succession depth, and credibility to support current operations and future growth.

People Leadership Responsibilities

• Set clear direction, priorities, decision rights, goals, and accountability for the procurement organization.
• Attract, retain, and develop diverse talent; build succession and capability plans for critical roles.
• Coach leaders and team members through timely feedback, stretch opportunities, and transparent career discussions.
• Create an inclusive, high-trust environment that encourages collaboration, early risk escalation, and sound decision-making.
• Set rigorous performance expectations, recognize strong contributions, and address gaps promptly and fairly.
• Lead change with clarity and empathy while building strategic, commercial, digital, analytical, negotiation, and supplier-management capabilities.

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic and financial acumen: Connects procurement decisions to customer, portfolio, financial, operational, and long-term outcomes.
• Executive influence: Distills complexity into clear choices, recommendations, and stakeholder alignment.
• Talent leadership: Builds strong teams, develops successors, delegates effectively, and fosters accountability and inclusion.
• Transformation leadership: Mobilizes stakeholders and sustains adoption of new capabilities and ways of working.
• Judgment and innovation: Makes timely, princip