Director, Agile Procurement
Johnson & Johnson
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: São Paulo • 🇧🇷 Brazil
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Lead
About the role
- Ensuring that the Procurement organization delivers results in support of the JJIM Americas business strategy and objectives
- Leading operational execution of the commercial categories, and other categories when required and their respective strategies, globally, for the JJIM business
- Understand JJIM business needs and partner with categories to devise Procurement strategies to advance those priorities
- Identify industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure balanced relevance to the JJIM business
- Direct and manage the Latin America Agile Team operating across several countries; engage key stakeholders in each cluster to understand local JJIM business needs, ensure effective implementation of global category strategies, and oversee delivery of sourcing and contracting services for specified activities
- Work to align Procurement's activities directly with business leaders inclusive of Commercial, Finance, Legal, COEs, and Global Services teams
- Lead major strategic negotiations for owned categories on behalf of the JJIM business
- Ensure new product launches are prioritized by category teams and coordinate across Sales, Marketing, Global Services, and Therapeutic Areas to deliver on launch commitments
- Be the Business Engagement Leader with regional heads, and where appropriate, directly with senior business leaders, to ensure alignment with regional business strategies
- Participate in the JJIM Americas Procurement Leadership Team to provide leadership to the function regionally in the achievement of business objectives
- Develop performance targets for the JJIM Procurement organization in the role’s areas of responsibility, and ensure target achievement
- Partner with Latin America Governance Council members to foster regional Talent Progression and to strengthen the Power of One Procurement in LATAM
- Sponsor JJIM Procurement initiatives to deliver standardized process and value across the organization as a member of the JJIM Extended Leadership Team (ELT)
Requirements
- Bachelors Degree is required, MBA or further advanced degree is desirable
- Minimum of 10 years related work experience
- Strong business insight to understand challenges through the eyes of the regional business leaders
- Influencing skills to persuade others to change behavior in pursuit of a common goal
- Strong leadership and collaboration at the senior executive level, as well as with peers
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to expertly present sophisticated information to senior executives
- Broad-based understanding of core procurement areas of focus (spend management, category management and supplier management)
- Strong project management and organizational change leadership capabilities
- Proven learning agility, and the ability to improve both yourself and the people around you.
- Proficiency in English (written and oral) is required
- Requires up to 10% domestic and international travel
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities
- Flexible work arrangements
- Paid time off
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
spend managementcategory managementsupplier managementproject managementorganizational change leadership
Soft skills
business insightinfluencing skillsleadershipcollaborationverbal communicationwritten communicationlearning agility
Certifications
Bachelors DegreeMBA