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 Med Tech, 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

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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 Med Tech 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 Med Tech, 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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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:

* Develop and manage 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 shape, optimize, and diversify the supply base.

* Develop innovative and sustainable 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 holistic supplier performance management and review.

Contracting:

* Systematically and efficiently manage contract creation, approval, administration, and compliance to maximize financial and operational performance while minimizing risk.

Project Support:

* Represent procurement in End-to-End Supply Chain initiatives of the manufacturing network, capacity programs, digital tools/technology adoption, and resiliency.

* Support the development and drive the Procurement vision for, with and through our stakeholder community.

* Lead / Support projects in defined spend scope, to deliver procurement performance metrics.

Qualifications

* A minimum of 5-8 years of strong procurement experience.

* BSc in Operations/Supply Chain Management, Engineering…