Description

Who We AreAt Kenvue, part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies (Kenvue), we believe there is extraordinary power in everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and propelled forward by science, our iconic brands-including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON'S® and BAND-AID® -are category leaders trusted by millions of consumers who use our products to improve their daily lives. Our employees share a digital-first mindset, an approach to innovation grounded in deep human insights, and a commitment to continually earning a place for our products in consumers' hearts and homes.

Join us in shaping our future--and yours.

What will you do
The Country Procurement Head is responsible for

• leading the Procurement organization supporting all spends (including both Raw material and Indirect procurement) for Kenvue in a market. The Country Lead will orchestrate the local procurement efforts and business engagement. The role will also provide leadership in the collaboration of the in market resource with Business Unit (BU) Procurement group, the Share Service Group and Procurement excellence to fulfil in-country business requirements.

• Supporting and driving the development of category practices for local market categories, including sourcing strategy definition, deployment, and stakeholder management, to maximize total cost of ownership savings and Procurement's value contribution while achieving compliance with policies, strategies, and processes

• striving to meet the mutually agreed Procurement targets contributing to the overall budgeting targets

In addition to the elements mentioned above the Country procurement lead is accountable to define and achieve clear targets in conjunction with his/her Procurement counterparts and business stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities:

• Business Engagement

• Represents the Procurement organization to the market leadership and is responsible for identifying business demand requirements and partnering with Category Management teams to deliver annual value improvements and drive competitive advantage.
• Be familiar with the longer-term priorities, country strategic imperatives and requirements of the business partners, to define in country procurement priorities that enable the business objectives and engage in strategic planning and partnering to ensure alignment.

o Acts as point of contact for the business to assure business requirements are met

• Defines Category Strategy:

o Leads local team to analyzes category and defines category profile, incl. risk assessment, supply base assessment and SRM strategy

o Benchmarks category practices to identify improvement initiatives

o Builds category specific strategic plan in alignment with the regions / countries and aligns strategic plan to financial budget and global business strategies in alignment with global Category Manager and business stakeholders

o Defines R2P and Buying Channel strategy, identifies and considers automation potential and R2P/Channel effectiveness

o Is accountable for savings delivery according to the mutually defined targets

• Sourcing

o Collaborates and aligns with global / regional / local procurement teams as applicable

o Supports supplier selection and fact based negotiations

o Contributes to leading practice exchange throughout Procurement organization

o Leads RfX execution: Selects supplier and drives fact based negotiations

o Collaborates with legal to finalize contractual agreement and its administration

o Works with Category lead to implement and activate global/ regional strategies into the market

• Supplier relationship management

o Maintains and manages relationship with suppliers identified as key suppliers in the selected category and region, monitors performance of key strategic suppliers according to the guidelines

o Leads supplier development activities; sets up cross-functional review meetings with key strategic suppliers in order to improve performance and further cost / demand reductions

o Supports the identification of potential contract improvement opportunities and re-negotiations

. Organizational Management

o Enable/leads harmonization of processes, systems, policy implementation and remediation for local market. This will include performance review and analysis, performance management and development and improvement of end to end value in partnership.

o Leads organizational planning, staffing, people development and training for the cluster procurement resources.

o Partners with be responsible for resource planning, contingency planning and priority setting to support business priorities aligned with regional leader, regional category procurement team and Global resources.

Qualifications

What we are looking for
Required Qualifications

• Academic background: Appropriate University/bachelor degree qualification is essential. A recognized qualification in procurement would be considered an asset

• MBA and international experience will be added advantage
• Has at least 7 to 10 years of industry experience
• Broad-based understanding of business operations and practices and core Procurement areas of focus (Spend Management: Category Management and Supplier Management).
• Customer Orientation (building and maintaining strong relationships with J& J Management)
• Leadership, communication, influencing, collaboration and talent development skills are required
• Able to prioritize requests and propose effective cost/customer service alternatives when necessary.
• Ability to show judgment in developing new approaches and resolving issues
• Project management skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skill
• Ability to continuously improve self to impact the organization

• Language skills: Japanese native, proficiency in English essential

Kenvue is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, age, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.