Senior Sourcing Specialist
About The Position
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. This role is located at our Bridgewater, MA office. The Senior Sourcing Specialist, Supply Chain Procurement will be responsible for supporting supply chain procurement activities for the J&J MedTech Biosense Webster US Franchise. He/she will lead and support supplier selection processes across both new product development and launched products. This leader is expected to provide hands-on leadership in all aspects of global sourcing to ensure best in class quality, reliability, innovation, and cost across the Biosense Webster supply base. He/she will be responsible for developing relationships with functional leads across R&D, Supply Chain, and Commercial Teams to provide overall coordination, facilitation and enablement of programs that will drive best practice strategic sourcing and will leverage J&J’s position in external supplier spend.
Requirements
- A minimum of 6 years of experience in a Procurement, Supply Chain/Operations, Quality, R&D or Engineering field
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Experience in Medical Devices or related industry is required
Nice To Haves
- MBA or advanced degree preferred
Responsibilities
- Partner with R&D and supply chain functional leads to understand business strategy and develop long-term sourcing strategy to improve supply reliability and optimize material costs for key growth products
- Lead Market Engagement Programs to support competitive bidding for Make vs. Buy assessments, NPI supplier selection, and targeted component spend areas across Electronics, External Manufacturing, Direct Precision Material and Packaging Categories
- Orchestrate of category/supplier management performed by the categories and oversight for the execution delivery of the strategic plan and business plan, in line with expectations put forth by BWI SC, Quality, R&D and Commercial functions
- Support 4+ strategic sourcing initiatives simultaneously across multiple products, global procurement categories, and geographies
- Responsible for communicating business related issues or opportunities to next management level
- Lead and support multiple supplier negotiations simultaneously. Coordinate with key stakeholders, drive terms that are favorable for Biosense, and hand off stabilized products, contracts and suppliers to base business sourcing teams.
- Optimize quality, supply reliability, innovation and cost through early supplier engagement during product development.
- Drive innovation through identifying and developing external partner capabilities to meet future technology needs.
- For those who supervise or manage a staff, responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition, if applicable
- Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
- Performs other duties assigned as needed
- Responsible for communicating business related issues or opportunities to next management level
- Responsible for following all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices as applicable.
- For those who supervise or manage a staff, responsible for ensuring that subordinates follow all Company guidelines related to Health, Safety and Environmental practices and that all resources needed to do so are available and in good condition, if applicable
- Responsible for ensuring personal and Company compliance with all Federal, State, local and Company regulations, policies, and procedures
- Performs other duties assigned as needed
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
