Manager, IM R&D Procurement Agile

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Job Function:
Procurement

Job Sub Function:
Category

Job Category:
Professional

All Job Posting Locations:
Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

Manager, IM R&D Procurement Agile

Preferred location: Beerse, Belgium,

Other possible locations: Titusville, NJ; Spring House, PA; or Raritan, NJ.

Contract: full time, permanent

THE OPPORTUNITY

Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies is recruiting for a Manager, IM R&D Procurement Agile, for our J&J Innovative Medicine Research & Development Procurement team! The position can be located in Beerse, Belgium; Titusville, NJ; Spring House, PA; or Raritan, NJ.

Are you passionate about providing better outcomes for patients? Are you motivated to join a newly formed agile team?

How YOU can help:

This role is accountable for two primary objectives:


* Ensuring that the Procurement organization delivers results in support of the IM R&D strategy and objectives.

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


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

The key responsibilities & the impact YOU will have:


* Understand the IM R&D priorities and partner with Procurement Category Leaders to devise strategies that advance those priorities


* Collaborate with the business to ensure Procurement strategies meet their needs, and that they are adopted.


* Identify industry trends that Procurement must incorporate in its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to the business


* Lead strategic sourcing events and negotiations


* Deliver against performance targets for the IM Procurement organization in the role’s areas of responsibility and ensure target achievement

IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU

We would love to hear from YOU, if you have:

Education:


* A Bachelor’s degree is required 


* An MBA or further advance degree is preferred

Experience and Skills:

Required:


* Minimum 5 years related experience is required


* Strong business acumen - Understanding challenges through the eyes of business leaders


* Influencing skills - Able 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 skil...