Manager Innovative Medicine EMEA Agile Procurement

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.

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J&J MedTech is recruiting for a Manager Innovative Medicine EMEA Agile Procurement reporting to the Director EMEA Agile Procurement and to be located in Zug (Switzerland).

This role is accountable for two primary objectives:

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Ensuring that the Procurement organization delivers results in support of the Innovative Medicine business strategy and objectives.

The role works directly with the business, category leaders, and broader function.

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Contributing to and leading operational execution of prioritized category strategy implementations, complex business projects, and other critical functional activities and deployments.

The role's scope of responsibilities include:


* Understand the Innovative Medicine business priorities and partner with Procurement Category Leaders to devise strategies that advance those priorities


* Collaborate with business leaders to ensure Procurement strategies meet the business needs, and are adopted within the business, securing the sustainability of long term programs


* Identify regional or business area specific industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to the business.

Conceptualise how those external insights can be converted into high value business opportunities


* Lead strategic sourcing events and negotiations


* Deliver against performance targets for the Innovative Medicine Procurement organization in the role's areas of responsibility, and ensure target achievement

Major Duties & Responsibilities:


* Partner with the business and category leaders to conceptionalise key opportunities that advance Innovative Medicine priorities


* Lead complex, strategic projects to advance business objectives or category strategies


* Lead major strategic sourcing events and negotiations


* Engage in procurement talent community as a mentor, coach, or partner



* Bachelors Degree, MBA or further advanced degree


* Min 5 years of related experience (Life Sciences, MedTechnology preferred)


* Strong business acumen - the ability to understand challenges through the eyes of the regional business leaders


* Influencing skills - the ability to persuade others to change behavior in pursuit of a common goal


* Strong leadership and collaboration skills at the senior executive level, as well as with peers


* Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to confide...