Sr Procurement Specialist, MRO

6094-Johnson & Johnson Vision Care, Inc. Legal Entity; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Johnson & Johnson is seeking a Senior Procurement Specialist for MRO on the Jacksonville Campus. You will lead procurement planning and execution for maintenance, repair, and operating parts, collaborating with suppliers to ensure continuous supply and compliance.

In this role you will drive strategic sourcing, manage supplier performance, and partner with Quality, Engineering, and Legal to establish strong supplier quality agreements, while reducing supply continuity risk across the Vision Care

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or equivalent degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years in procurement, buying, materials planning, or supplier management.
• Strong negotiation and supplier relationship skills.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day procurement execution with the integrated supplier and manage service expectations.
• Translate inventory and asset-care requirements into accurate requisitions and POs with delivery schedules.
• Manage open orders, lead times, expediting, backorders, and discrepancies to protect manufacturing continuity.
• Lead supplier performance reviews across service, delivery, quality, and accuracy; drive corrective actions.
• Develop sourcing strategies for critical suppliers, OEM parts, repairs, and high-risk categories.
• Lead or support competitive bids, quotations, negotiations, and supplier evaluations.
• Partner with Quality, Procurement, Engineering, and Legal to establish supplier quality and technical agreements.
• Collaborate with Spare Parts & Asset Inventory Analyst to translate inventory strategies into purchasing plans.

Skills

AI eval

Business Process

Coaching

Compliance Mgmt

Data Savvy

Demand Planning

Detail-Oriented

Leadership

Inventory Mgmt

Process Optimization

Supply Planning

VMI

Warehouse Mgmt

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent degree

Tools

SAP

Maximo

Ariba

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 https://www.jnj.com/.

Job Function: Supply Chain Planning Job Sub Function: Inventory Management Job Category: People Leader All Job Posting Locations: Jacksonville, Florida, United States of America

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 https://www.jnj.com/.

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.

About Vision

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we're developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding on the possibilities of vision treatments? Ready to join a team that's reimagining how vision is improved? Our Vision team solves the toughest health challenges. Help combine cutting‑edge insights, science, technology, and people to encourage eye care professionals and patients to proactively protect, correct and enhance healthy sight for life. Our products and services address these needs - from the pediatric to aging eye - in a patient's lifetime. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech

Senior Procurement Specialist, MRO

Purpose: The Senior Procurement Specialist leads procurement planning and execution for maintenance, repair, operating, and spare parts materials supporting the Johnson & Johnson Vision Care Jacksonville Campus. This role is the primary operational procurement interface with the integrated supplier and converts approved inventory and asset‑care requirements into reliable, compliant, and cost‑effective supply solutions. The position also drives strategic sourcing for critical suppliers, strengthens supplier performance and accountability, establishes appropriate quality and commercial agreements, and reduces supply continuity risk. This role complements the Spare Parts & Asset Inventory Analyst, which focuses on internal part strategy, inventory parameters, consumption analysis, and stocking decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own day‑to‑day procurement execution with the integrated supplier, including priorities, service expectations, escalation paths, and accountability for results.
• Approve spare parts requirements into accurate requisitions, purchase orders, confirmations, and delivery schedules while ensuring compliance with procurement policies and delegated authority.
• Manage open orders, acknowledgements, lead times, expedites, past‑due lines, backorders, invoice or receipt discrepancies, and urgent breakdown purchases to protect manufacturing continuity.
• Lead integrated supplier performance reviews using service, delivery, quality, responsiveness, and transactional accuracy measures, and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Proactively develop sourcing strategies for critical suppliers, original equipment manufacturer parts, repair services, and high‑risk categories using spend, demand, lead‑time, criticality, quality‑risk, and total‑cost data.
• Lead or support competitive bids, quotation analysis, negotiations, commercial evaluations, alternate‑source qualification, supplier rationalization, dual sourcing, localization, and source recommendations.
• Partner with Quality, Procurement, Engineering, and Legal, as applicable, to establish, execute, and renew supplier quality agreements, technical agreements, specifications, and commercial controls for critical suppliers.
• Partner with the Spare Parts & Asset Inventory Analyst and cross‑functional teams to translate inventory strategies, repairable‑unit needs, obsolescence risks, and asset priorities into executable purchasing and supplier plans.

Qualifications

• Education: Minimum of a Bachelor’s or equivalent University Degree or equivalent relevant experience required; Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field is preferred.

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in procurement, buying, materials planning, supply chain, supplier management, or a related manufacturing function is required.
• Demonstrated ability to execute purchase‑to‑pay processes and manage supplier delivery, pricing, negotiations, order exceptions, and performance issues is required.
• Demonstrated capability in strategic sourcing, requests for quotation or proposal, commercial analysis, supplier agreements, and total‑cost evaluation is required.
• Strong analytical, negotiation, problem‑solving, follow‑through, and stakeholder‑management skills are required, along with the ability to communicate risk and recommendations clearly to cross‑functional partners and leadership.

Preferred

• Working knowledge of supplier qualification, quality agreements, change control, nonconformance, corrective action, continuity risk, and alternate‑source development is preferred.
• Knowledge of maintenance, repair, and operating materials, spare parts, original equipment manufacturer components, repair services, or technical services in a regulated or highly automated manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Proficiency with enterprise resource planning and procurement systems is required; SAP, Maximo, and Ariba knowledge is preferred.

Other

• May require up to 10% domestic and/or international travel to other locations and sites undefined.

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, external applicants please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers, internal employees contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills

• AI solution evaluation
• Business Process Design
• Coaching
• Compliance Management
• Data Savvy
• Demand Planning
• Detail‑Oriented
• Developing Others
• Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)
• Document Management
• Inclusive Leadership
• Inventory Management
• Inventory Optimization
• Leadership
• Manufacturing Flow Management
• Process Optimization
• Process Oriented
• Supply Planning
• Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
• Warehouse Management

Preferred Skills

• AI solution evaluation
• Business Process Design
• Coaching
• Compliance Management
• Data Savvy
• Demand Planning
• Detail‑Oriented
• Developing Others
• Distribution Resource Planning (DRP)
• Document Management
• Inclusive Leadership
• Inventory Management
• Inventory Optimization
• Leadership
• Manufacturing Flow Management
• Process Optimization
• Process Oriented
• Supply Planning
• Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
• Warehouse Management

Recruitment Commitment

Throughout the recruitment process - from application through hiring - we are committed to providing reasonable accommodations/adjustments for qualified candidates with disabilities. If you need support at any stage of the recruitment process, please complete our candidate accommodation request form so we can assist you.

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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 https://www.jnj.com/.