Director, Procurement Shockwave Medical
Santa Clara County, CA - USA
Job Summary
At Johnson & Johnsonwe believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build aworld where complex diseases are prevented treated and curedwhere treatments are smarter and less invasive andsolutions are 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 more at
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Job Function:
ProcurementJob Sub Function:
Multi-Family ProcurementJob Category:
People LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:
Santa Clara California United States of AmericaJob Description:
Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Director Procurement Shockwave Medical to join our team located in Santa Clara CA.
Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology were developing the next generation of smarter less invasive more personalized treatments. Ready to join a team thats pioneering the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Our Shockwave Medical portfolio aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.
Position Overview
The Global Procurement Director provides leadership and strategic direction for all Circulatory Restoration procurement activities including direct material planning and purchasing indirect procurement and strategic sourcing. This role is accountable for ensuring material availability supplier performance cost competitiveness supply continuity and effective execution of procurement strategies in support of business operational and customer requirements.
Essential Job Functions
- Enterprise strategy and partnership: Define a multi-year procurement and category strategy aligned with growth portfolio margin quality and continuity goals; advise senior leaders using market spend and scenario insights.
- Value creation: Deliver total-cost productivity working-capital demand-management and commercial-innovation improvements.
- Supply resilience: Build a scalable diversified supplier and contract manufacturing network; anticipate capacity geopolitical financial quality technology and single-source risks.
- Supplier and commercial leadership: Segment and govern critical suppliers strengthen performance and innovation and lead high-value or high-risk negotiations and agreements.
- Product lifecycle enablement: Partner across R&D Operations Quality Finance and Commercial teams on design-to-value supplier selection NPI readiness scaling transitions and end-of-life plans.
- Procurement transformation: Advance the operating model governance policies processes data standards ERP automation analytics and decision-support capabilities.
- Performance and compliance: Establish KPIs and executive reporting while maintaining ethical sourcing audit readiness delegated authority quality-system requirements and legal compliance.
- Organizational leadership: Build a high-performing procurement organization with the capabilities succession depth and credibility to support current operations and future growth.
People Leadership Responsibilities
- Set clear direction priorities decision rights goals and accountability for the procurement organization.
- Attract retain and develop diverse talent; build succession and capability plans for critical roles.
- Coach leaders and team members through timely feedback stretch opportunities and transparent career discussions.
- Create an inclusive high-trust environment that encourages collaboration early risk escalation and sound decision-making.
- Set rigorous performance expectations recognize strong contributions and address gaps promptly and fairly.
- Lead change with clarity and empathy while building strategic commercial digital analytical negotiation and supplier-management capabilities.
Leadership Competencies
- Strategic and financial acumen: Connects procurement decisions to customer portfolio financial operational and long-term outcomes.
- Executive influence: Distills complexity into clear choices recommendations and stakeholder alignment.
- Talent leadership: Builds strong teams develops successors delegates effectively and fosters accountability and inclusion.
- Transformation leadership: Mobilizes stakeholders and sustains adoption of new capabilities and ways of working.
- Judgment and innovation: Makes timely principled decisions and converts market technology and supplier insights into advantage.
- Collaboration: Builds trusted partnerships manages constructive tension and resolves complex issues.
Requirements
- Bachelors degree in Business Engineering Supply Chain Finance or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
- 12 years of progressive procurement sourcing contract manufacturing supply chain or supplier-risk experience including 5 years leading managers or professional teams in a complex regulated or global environment.
- Proven success building multi-year procurement strategies that create value strengthen resilience and support growth.
- Experience leading executive supplier relationships and complex negotiations involving price capacity quality service risk and contracts.
- Strong knowledge of manufacturing and supply-chain economics for medical devices electronics components and contract manufacturing; NPI and scale-up experience preferred.
- Experience leading procurement transformation including operating models governance ERP/MRP digital tools analytics and process standardization; QAD or Oracle preferred.
- Strong financial analytical communication negotiation and executive-presentation skills with the ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders.
- Track record of building inclusive high-performing teams and developing leaders and successors.
- Working knowledge of applicable quality and compliance requirements including traceability QSR ISO and medical-device regulations.
- CPM CPSM or equivalent certification preferred.
Additional Information
- The Company maintains highly competitive performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporations performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Companys discretion on an individual basis.
- Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical dental vision life insurance short- and long-term disability business accident insurance and group legal insurance.
- Employees may be eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).
- Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
- Vacation up to 120 hours per calendar year
- Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington up to 56 hours per calendar year
- Holiday pay including Floating Holidays up to 13 days per calendar year
- Work Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
- Additional information can be found through the link below. & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity age national origin disability protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
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Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Business Alignment Business Data Analysis Business Savvy Category Management Strategy Compliant Spend Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) Developing Others Inclusive Leadership Industry Analysis Inventory Optimization Leadership Market Savvy Negotiation Performance Measurement Predictive Modeling Risk Management Stakeholder Management Supplier Collaboration Sustainable Procurement Vendor Management Vendor SelectionThe anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$172000.00 - $297850.00Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Required Experience:
Director
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