Category Manager Direct Precision Materials

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

Job Function:
Procurement

Job Sub Function:
Category

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Danvers, Massachusetts, United States of America

Job Description:

Abiomed, a part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for a Category Manager for Direct Precision Materials, located in Danvers, MA.

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/.

Key Responsibilities:

Category Management


* Develop and/or support the category sourcing strategy for the defined portfolio through Business needs assessment, Market intelligence, Supplier evaluations and sourcing choices.


* Proactively engage business partners to identify needs and incorporate those needs into sub-category strategies.


* Build supply network through developing, identifying suppliers applying deep subject matter expertise based on supply market analysis, industry intelligence.


* Understand supply market trends, competitor analysis to deliver proactive sourcing strategies.

Sourcing:


* Lead or support sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners, Influence decisions, delivering on-going value improvements while driving competitive advantage.


* Develop spend analysis and gather market intelligence in alignment with business goals.


* Develop and lead cost management initiatives; Prepare and execute RFQs for medium to high complexity sourcing decisions; Conduct negotiations with suppliers.


* Build short term, and long-term capacities with suppliers to support business growth.


* Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.


* Build and maintain relationships throughout Abiomed that results in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions.


* Drive sourcing activities for defined categories to support new products under development.

Supplier Management:


* Develo...