Senior Manager, EM Procurement
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
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Job summary
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine seeks a Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement Strategy & Warehousing Initiatives to drive strategic programs across a global supplier base. You will lead critical initiatives, shape warehousing and capacity projects, and deliver measurable value through data-driven decisions.
The role requires strong leadership, procurement strategy and cross-functional collaboration, with travel as needed in a global matrix environment.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Significant experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a global matrix environment and delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Strong problem-structuring and analytical capability with ability to move from ambiguous questions to fact-based recommendations.
- Understanding of procurement, category management, supplier relationship management, sourcing and commercial value levers.
- Experience in logistics, external warehousing or distribution networks is advantageous.
Responsibilities
- Lead high-impact cross-functional programs, translating priorities into outcomes, roadmaps and milestones.
- Drive strategic warehousing, capacity and space projects with the broader EM portfolio.
- Own EM procurement budgeting, savings tracking and financial forecasting with leadership.
- Develop KPI dashboards and portfolio scorecards for actionable leadership insights.
- Improve EM procurement governance, ways of working and cross-functional interfaces.
Skills
Education
Job description
At Johnson & Johnson,we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured,where treatments are smarter and less invasive, andsolutions 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:
Titusville, New Jersey, United States of America
Job Description:
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting for a Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement Strategy & Warehousing Initiatives to be based in Titusville, Zug, Switzerland or Geel/Beerse Belgium, Cork Ireland.
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/.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 actions with accountable owners.
- Own the evolution of the EM Procurement KPI dashboard and portfolio scorecards, with emphasis on actionable insights, leading indicators and business outcomes.
- Simplify and automate management information wherever possible, reducing manual reporting and improving data quality.
- Synthesize complex information into clear choices, implications and recommendations for senior leadership.
- Ensure governance forums focus on decisions, actions and value delivery rather than status reporting.
- Lead improvements to EM Procurement ways of working, governance, prioritization and cross-functional interfaces.
- Design and facilitate leadership workshops and strategic planning sessions, including future Elevate activities.
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Significant experience in one or more of the following: strategy or management consulting; procurement, category management or strategic sourcing; supply chain and logistics; or warehousing and logistics procurement
- Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a global matrix environment and delivering measurable business outcomes
- Strong problem-structuring and analytical capability, with the ability to move from ambiguous questions to fact-based recommendations and executable plans
- Understanding of procurement, category management, supplier relationship management, sourcing, negotiation and commercial value levers
- Experience in logistics, external warehousing, distribution networks or logistics service providers is an advantage, but is not required to be the candidate’s sole area of expertise
- Strong financial acumen, including business planning, forecasting, value tracking and interpretation of performance drivers
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority and to challenge constructively
- Excellent executive communication, facilitation, stakeholder management and presentation skills
- Experience with portfolio management, analytics, data visualization and automation of management reporting
- Occasional travel may be required 5–10%
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Advanced Analytics, Business Data Analysis, Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Competitive Landscape, Contract Management, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Critical Thinking, Leadership, Market Savvy, Mentorship, Negotiation, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Process Improvements, Relationship Building, Risk Management, Spend Analysis, Strategic Thinking, Supplier Collaboration, Sustainable Procurement, Technical Credibility, Vendor Selection
The anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$122.000,00 - $212.750,00
Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
For additional general information on Company benefits, please go to: https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits
This job posting is anticipated to close on November 10, 2026. The Company may
however extend this time-period, in which case the posting will remain available
on https://www.careers.jnj.com to accept additional applications.
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