Senior Manager Packaging SCP

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine • Jacksonville, FL

4d • $122,000 - $212,750 • Hybrid

About The Position

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Senior Manager, Packaging Team Leader within the MedTech Procurement Team. This position can be located in Raritan, NJ, US. Alternative locations Jacksonville, FL, US or Zug, Switzerland. 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. The Senior Manager, Packaging Team Leader will oversee a global team of category managers & SRMs responsible for developing and executing strategies across the primary packaging portfolio (Thermoforms, Tyvek & Films, Foils, etc.) and secondary packaging (Cartons, Corrugates, IFUs…) for MedTech Business Units (Surgery, EPNV, Vision). This leader will set a strategic direction, ensure alignment with corporate goals, and build a high-performing team that delivers profitability increase, innovation, resilience, cost optimization, and sustainability in packaging supply. Success in this role requires a customer-centric mindset, ensuring that internal stakeholders —including R&D, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and Marketing—are engaged as key customers. By understanding their priorities and translating them into procurement strategies, the leader will position Packaging Procurement as a trusted partner that enables product innovation, compliance, and commercial success.

Requirements

• Master’s Degree or MBA preferred
• At least 8 years of procurement or supply chain experience across fields such as manufacturing, operations, procurement, or distribution
• Strong understanding of core procurement functions: Spend Management, Category Management, Sourcing, Supplier Management
• Proven leadership, teamwork, and influencing skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Analytical mindset with problem-solving competence
• Project management experience leading cross-functional initiatives
• Business and financial competence, with negotiation expertise
• Ability to communicate effectively across organizational levels
• Proficiency in English required

Nice To Haves

• Proven experience within Medical Devices or Healthcare is a plus
• Proven experience in Packaging Procurement
• Familiarity with regional and global regulatory and quality standards in healthcare packaging (ISO, FDA, MDR, UDI, serialization, PPWR etc.).
• Certification: CPSM, CSCP, CPIM, PMP, or Six Sigma Green/Black Belt (preferred)
• Knowledge of ERP, SAP, MRP systems, and Advanced Planning tools
• Experience with Process Excellence and Six Sigma methodologies

Responsibilities

• Sourcing Lead or support sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners, Influence decisions, delivering ongoing value improvements while driving competitive advantage.
• Develop spend analysis and bring together market intelligence in alignment with business goals.
• Identify emerging needs within a specific area of focus and develop the vision, strategy and implementation plan that will optimally meet the long-range requirements of the business partners and deliver the maximum value for J&J
• Develop and lead price and cost initiatives; Prepare and complete RFQs for medium to high complexity sourcing decisions; Conduct negotiations with suppliers.
• Collaborate with supplier leadership to assure alignment of J&J’s objectives are met, including quality, reliability, innovation, and cost
• Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.
• Build and maintain relationships throughout J&J that results in interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of efficient approaches and solutions.
• Develop and/or support the category sourcing strategy for the defined portfolio through Business needs assessment, Market intelligence, Supplier evaluations and sourcing choices.
• Understand long range requirements to ensure alignment; Develop and implement sourcing strategy.
• Develop and lead or support supplier partnerships to drive performance delivery, risk mitigation, and value through supplier enabled innovation.
• Cultivate and use strategic relationships with key business partners (e.g., Internal partners, supplier leadership) to craft, optimize, and diversify the supply base.
• Develop innovative and balanced solutions to identify and mitigate risk, drive long-term, end-to-end value, and achieve unmet business needs.
• Identify and pursue opportunities to develop supplier capabilities.
• Conduct Business Review meetings with suppliers that include comprehensive supplier performance management and review.
• Use procurement expertise and global business understanding to implement contracts.
• Ensure that agreements and the manner they are performed meet business demands of all collaborators and are aligned with the organization’s overall procurement and business strategy.
• Represent procurement in End-to-End Supply Chain initiatives of the manufacturing network, digital tools/technology adoption, and resiliency.

Benefits

• Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
• Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
• Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
• Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
• Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
• Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
• Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period
• 10 days Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
• Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager