About this opportunity
At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com .
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Job Function:
Procurement
Job Sub Function:
Procurement Business Engagement Leads
Job Category:
People Leader
All Job Posting Locations:
Zug, Switzerland
Job Description:
Role Purpose
This role serves as the senior Procurement partner to the EMEA Innovative Medicine Strategy Organisation (ESO), leading the design and execution of procurement strategies that enable business transformation, operational efficiencies, and simplification across EMEA.
The role will translate ESO priorities into procurement‑led value creation at scale, driving standardization, cross‑regional and global leverage, and AI-enabled productivity, while ensuring measurable impact on growth, efficiency, and competitive advantage in line with IM business ambitions.
Accountable for shaping future-ready procurement models, the role ensures that fragmented, local approaches are transitioned into integrated, and scalable solutions that improve speed, quality, and decision-making across the region.
Key Accountabilities
1. Strategic Partnering and Business Engagement with ESO leadership
Act as the senior Procurement partner to ESO, co-driving transformational change.
Translate IM business priorities into procurement strategies aligned to growth, launch excellence, and customer impact.
Enable and drive adoption of standardized, scalable operating models across markets and functions.
2. Category Strategy & Scale
Lead regional category strategies focused on consolidation, standardization, and demand harmonization.
Drive cross-market and cross-TA aggregation (e.g., unified supplier models, pan-regional RFPs).
Partner with Global Category Leaders to align and deploy strategies while elevating EMEA priorities.
Expand into ESO priority areas, delivering end-to-end solutions vs. fragmented sourcing.
3. Value Delivery & Performance
Own delivery of procurement value through structural cost reduction, demand management, and reinvestment for growth.
Ensure value is driven through operating model transformation, not only sourcing activity.
Embed performance tracking linking procurement impact to business outcomes.
Deliver multi-year value roadmaps, balancing near-term results with structural value creation.
4. Operating Model & Spend Governance
Lead the shift from fragmented execution to centralized, simplified, and scalable solutions.
Establish clear governance, decision rights, and standard ways of working.
Simplify supplier ecosystems and processes to reduce complexity and improve efficiency.
Act as the integrator across ESO, markets, and functions to enable alignment and scale.
5. Innovation & Future-Ready Procurement
Embed AI, automation, and digital capabilities into category strategies and supplier models.
Leverage supplier ecosystems to drive innovation and next-generation delivery models (e.g., content, data, digital).
Position Procurement as a strategic enabler of IM’s future commercial model.
6. Execution, Change & Team Leadership
Provide regional leadership to EMEA Procurement teams across Global Services and Agile to deliver consistent execution.
Drive adoption of new operating models through strong change management and stakeholder engagement.
Continuously improve Procurement’s effectiveness, speed, and quality of delivery.
7. Strategic Sourcing & Supplier Ecosystem Leadership
Lead complex, high-value negotiations shaping long-term supplier ecosystems.
Drive pan-regional sourcing programs (RFI/RFP) to reset categories and ensure competitiveness.
Structure deals that balance immediate value with long-term strategic positioning and innovation.
Success Metrics
Delivery of procurement-driven value aligned to ESO transformation objectives
Adoption rate of procurement strategies across EMEA IM business
Financial performance vs. targets (savings, cost management, value creation)
Speed and effectiveness of strategy execution and implementation
Stakeholder satisfaction and strategic partnership effectiveness
Talent management
Required Skills:
Budget Management, Change Leadership, Communication, Organizing, Team Management
Preferred Skills:
Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Change Management, Compliant Spend, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Creating Purpose, Critical Thinking, Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Leadership, Negotiation, Operational Excellence, Performance Measurement, Procurement, Procurement Policies, Procurement Systems, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Supplier Collaboration
Job details
How this role compares
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We currently track 8 comparable Director Procurement roles across 6 biopharma companies.
Salary context
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Seniority mix
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Therapeutic area mix
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