Senior Manager, EM Procurement Strategy & Warehousing

About the role

Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine is recruiting a Senior Manager, External Manufacturing Procurement Strategy & Warehousing Initiatives, based in Zug, Switzerland or in Geel/Beerse (Belgium), Cork (Ireland) or Leiden (Netherlands). The role is a strategic delivery position within External Manufacturing Procurement, partnering with the EM Global Category Leader and subcategory leaders to turn priorities into clear programs, decisions and measurable outcomes across a complex global supplier landscape. It leads selected business-critical initiatives, sets portfolio governance, develops insights for leadership decisions and may also lead strategic external warehousing, overflow-storage and capacity projects.

Key responsibilities

• Lead high-impact cross-functional programs, owning the EM strategic initiative portfolio and creating executive-ready recommendations on investments, supplier engagement and operating-model changes.
• Provide procurement leadership for selected external warehousing, overflow-storage, capacity and space projects, partnering with Supply Chain, Deliver and Manufacturing on sourcing strategies and negotiations.
• Lead EM business planning, budget planning and financial forecasting with Finance, and own the consolidated view of savings, productivity, commitments, risks and opportunities.
• Own the EM Procurement KPI dashboard and portfolio scorecards, simplify management information and reduce manual reporting.
• Improve EM Procurement ways of working, governance and prioritization, and design and run leadership workshops and strategic planning sessions.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Significant experience in strategy or management consulting, procurement/category management/strategic sourcing, supply chain and logistics, or warehousing and logistics procurement.
• Demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives in a global matrix environment.
• Strong financial acumen, including business planning, forecasting and value tracking.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority and occasional travel of 5-10%.

Required skills

• Category management strategy, strategic sourcing and negotiation.
• Portfolio management, analytics, data visualization and automation of management reporting.
• Preferred: logistics, external warehousing, distribution networks or logistics service providers experience.