VP Law, Contracting Centre

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Job Function:

Legal & Compliance

Job Sub Function:

Law Business Partners

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick New Jersey United States of America

Job Description:

The Johnson and Johnson Global Legal Organization is recruiting for a Vice President Law Contracting Centre located in New Brunswick NJ.

The Vice President Law Contracting Centre is a senior enterprise legal delivery leader accountable for how high-volume transactional contracting services are designed delivered and continuously evolved at global scale. Operating as the single point of accountability for the Contracting Centre operating model this role owns end-to-end transactional legal delivery across multiple procurement and commercial categories. The Contracting Centre serves as the primary delivery engine for routine and standardized contracting work leveraging a right-shored hybrid workforce including onshore legal leaders offshore delivery teams and external contractors. This role is both strategic and operational: designing the future-state model while ensuring day-to-day performance across speed quality risk calibration and cost-to-serve. The Vice President works in close partnership with senior Legal Procurement and Global Services leaders to industrialize contracting increase predictability and enable business velocity in a complex matrixed multinational environment.

Strategic Accountabilities

Enterprise Transactional Contracting Operating Model: Design own and continuously evolve the end-to-end operating model for transactional contracting including demand intake work segmentation risk tiering escalation paths and collaboration with retained legal experts. Serve as the senior accountable executive for global Contracting Centre performance.

Scaled Legal Service Delivery & Performance: Create and lead a global multi-category Contracting Centre delivering high-volume procurement and transactional contracting. Establish and manage KPIs and SLAs covering cycle time throughput quality and rework.

Demand Capacity & Throughput Management: Implement enterprise-grade demand forecasting workload planning and surge management across internal offshore and third-party delivery resources.

Risk Segmentation & Quality Governance: Define and embed risk-based contracting frameworks standard positions templates playbooks and escalation guardrails to ensure consistent legal judgment and efficient delivery.

Digital & Process Enablement: Partner with Legal Operations and Technology teams to leverage Contract Lifecycle Management platforms workflow automation AI-assisted contracting and performance reporting.

Hybrid Workforce & Provider Strategy: Lead a hybrid delivery model of internal lawyers contracted resources and offshore teams; oversee third-party providers with clear quality and performance expectations.

Stakeholder Alignment & Change Leadership: Act as the senior legal interface for Procurement Global Services and transformation stakeholders; lead adoption of new service models and ways of working.

Future-State Evolution: Develop and execute a multi-year roadmap to expand the scope sophistication and business impact of the Contracting Centre.

Organizational Scope & Leadership

Leads the global Contracting Centre spanning onshore leaders offshore delivery teams and external contractors.

Operates as a peer to senior legal leaders and partners closely with Procurement Finance Global Services and Legal Operations.

Accountable for enterprise transactional contracting outcomes across multiple procurement and commercial categories.

Plays a visible leadership role within the Global Legal Organizations broader service-delivery and transformation agenda.

Partner with GSINC the enterprise Global Simplification and Innovation in Contracting group to implement policy templates and process improvements.

Qualifications:

Law degree required; admitted to practice in at least one jurisdiction.

12 years of senior level leadership experience in contracting centres transactional legal services legal shared services or global legal operations.

Demonstrated success designing scaling or transforming centralized and/or right-shored legal delivery models.

Experience operating in large complex matrixed multinational environments.

Commercially minded operator with fluency in metrics performance management and continuous improvement.

Credible executive presence with the ability to influence senior legal procurement and enterprise stakeholders.

Johnson & 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 Agility Commercial Laws Compliance Management Developing Others Dispute Resolution Inclusive Leadership Interpersonal Influence Lawyering Leadership Legal Documents Preparation Legal Services Negotiation Performance Measurement Relationship Building Representing Strategic Change

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$199000.00 - $366850.00

Additional Description for Pay Transparency:

Subject to the terms of their respective plans employees are eligible to participate in the Companys consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).



This position is eligible to participate in the Companys long-term incentive program.



Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire employees are eligible for the following time off 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 period10 days

Volunteer Leave 32 hours per calendar year

Military Spouse Time-Off 80 hours per calendar year