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The Director, Innovative Medicine Procurement, China and North Asia will be accountable for ensuring alignment between Procurement strategy and critical J& J Innovative Medicine business strategies and teams in these markets. This role requires a leader that is a strong relationship builder, strategic problem solver and influencer.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure that the Procurement organization delivers results in support of J& J Innovative Medicine business strategies and objectives.
• Work to align Procurement's activities directly with J& J Innovative Medicine business leaders and Finance, Legal, and Global Services teams.
• Lead operational execution of the Commercial, Research & Development, and other procurement categories when required.
• Direct and manage a team of 6-8 people located in various regions and countries whose responsibility it is to understand the J& J Innovative Medicine business and connect this with category strategies, ensuring optimal use of suppliers.
• Lead the operational execution of the global category strategies and their global and regional implementation, including the delivery of sourcing and contracting services for certain activities.
• Lead major strategic negotiations as required.
• Build and manage relationships that result in dynamic dialogue, a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of efficient approaches and solutions.
• Engage directly with budget owners at the Vice President & President level to drive business planning and strategic decision making across all relevant category spend families.
• Understand long range (3-5 year) requirements for J& J Innovative Medicine identified through strategic planning to guide development of category strategies and Procurement process.
• Identify business demand requirements and partner with Category Leaders to deliver annual value improvements and drive competitive advantage through the supplier base.
• Identify pharmaceutical industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to Innovative Medicine.
• Lead resolution of sophisticated business problems in partnership with our supplier base including deployment of Supplier Enabled Innovation programs.
• Continuously monitor the needs of the business to ensure their requirements are met and implement Procurement process improvement where critical to achieve the same.
• Key business partner to J& J Innovative Medicine business and corresponding leadership teams in strategy development and Procurement delivery.
• Lead the Agile Team in the operational execution of the global category strategies.
• Attract, retain, develop, and motivate talent in the team.
• Participate in Global/Regional team meetings and provide updates to Global Procurement Leadership.

Qualifications:

• Education: Minimum of Bachelors or equivalent University Degree is required. MBA or further advanced degree is preferred.

Required:

• Minimum of 10 years related work experience
• Strong business acumen to understand challenges through the eyes of the regional business leaders
• Demonstrated influencing skills to persuade others to change behavior in pursuit of a common goal
• Strong leadership and collaboration skills at the senior executive level, as well as with peers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to confidently present complex information to senior executives and large audiences
• Broad-based understanding of core procurement areas of focus (spend management, category management and supplier management)
• Strong project and change management capabilities
• Demonstrated learning agility, and the ability to improve both yourself and the people around you

Preferred:

• Experience in Life Sciences or Medical Technology industries
• Proven track record in attracting and developing talent
• Ability to inspire an organization to achieve stretch goals
• High level of credibility with internal customers, and with the supplier community, based on broad experience
• Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams and executing significant change programs
• Multi-country and Multi-industry experience with experience across geographies of varied sizes and businesses
• Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment, while ensuring the organization is able to effectively and efficiently move through transitions
• People management experience

Other:

• Fluency in English (written and oral) is required
• Requires up to 10% domestic and international travel