Category Manager, Functional CRO Services

Janssen Research & Development, LLC (JRD), part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Category Manager, Functional CRO Services, to be located in Titusville, NJ, Raritan, NJ Spring House, PA, or Beerse, Belgium.

Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 130 years. We embrace research and science -- bringing innovative ideas, products and services to advance the health and well-being of people. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.

We, the Janssen Research & Development, LLC (JRD) are a part of Janssen Supply Chain, a global organization responsible for supplying medicines to markets around the world. With Quality as our primary focus, our group strives to provide access and affordability through innovation and strong collaboration with our R&D and Commercial partners to deliver life changing solutions for patients in need. JSC Global Planning’s mission is to “Ensure reliable product availability to our patients by applying leading planning processes across the supply chain”.

This role is accountable for supporting category strategy development and implementation including leading supplier relationships for various subcategories of R&D Procurement globally for the R&D business, representing approximately $650 million in spend. 

Are you passionate about providing better outcomes for patients? Are you motivated to gain experience with creating strategies?

Scope of responsibilities include:

• Understand the Janssen business needs globally in the FCRO subcategories, and devise Procurement and supplier strategies to advance those priorities
• Identify industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure sustainable relevance to the business
• Support or own the category team, responsible for the global sub-category strategy, key supplier management activities, for the relevant categories
• Lead major strategic negotiations for owned categories on behalf of the business
• Coordinate with Janssen Procurement regional representatives, and where appropriate directly with business leaders, to ensure consistency with regional business strategies
• Participate in select business partner Leadership Teams, to provide leadership to the function in the achievement of Janssen business objectives
• Shape performance targets for the Janssen Procurement organization in the role’s areas of responsibility, and ensure target achievement
• Ensure coordination, prioritization, partnership, and alignment with Agile and GS teams

Major Duties & Responsibilities

Tasks/Duties/Responsibilities

• Lead category strategy development and implementation
• Lead key global supplier relationships
• Engage in procurement talent community as a mentor, coach, or partner
• Establish relationships and align with key business partners, and Procurement teams (Agile / GS) with responsibility for FCRO subcategories

Key Working Relationships

Identify the most important working relationships with people inside and outside the company including customers, vendors, associations, etc. Briefly describe the nature of the contacts.

Internal

• R&D Procurement Leadership Team
• Select Janssen R&D Leadership Teams, Regional and Country Leadership Teams
• Global Finance Director
• Regional Procurement Leaders
• GS Sourcing, SCS and R&D agile teams

External

• Pharmaceutical industry leaders
• Key supplier leadership
• Peer procurement leaders