Director, Agile Procurement – LATAM

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*Job Function:*
Procurement

*Job Sub Function:*
Category

*Job Category:*
People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:
Bogotá, Distrito Capital, Colombia, São Paulo, Brazil

*Job Description:
Director, Agile Procurement – LATAM*
Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine ("JJIM") is recruiting for a Director to lead our Latin America Agile Team. This role can be located in Sao Paulo, Brazil or Bogota, Colombia.

This Role Is Accountable For:
Ensuring that the Procurement organization delivers results in support of the JJIM Americas business strategy and objectives. Leading operational execution of the commercial categories, and other categories when required and their respective strategies, globally, for the JJIM business.

This role requires a leader that is a positive relationship builder, strategic problem solver and influencer. Are you interested in applying your business and financial savvy to impact the lives of patients?

*Key Responsibilities:*

• Understand JJIM business needs and partner with categories to devise Procurement strategies to advance those priorities
• Identify industry trends that Procurement must build into its category strategies to ensure balanced relevance to the JJIM business
• Direct and manage the Latin America Agile Team operating across several countries; engage key stakeholders in each cluster to understand local JJIM business needs, ensure effective implementation of global category strategies, and oversee delivery of sourcing and contracting services for specified activities.
• Work to align Procurement's activities directly with business leaders inclusive of Commercial, Finance, Legal, COEs, and Global Services teams.
• Lead major strategic negotiations for owned categories on behalf of the JJIM business
• Ensure new product launches are prioritized by category teams and coordinate across Sales, Marketing, Global Services, and Therapeutic Areas to deliver on launch commitments.
• Be the Business Engagement Leader with regional heads, and where appropriate, directly with senior business leaders, to ensure alignment with regional business strategies
• Participate in the JJIM Americas Procurement Leadership Team to provide leadership to the function regionally in the achievement of business objectives
• Develop performance targets for the JJIM Procurement organization in the role's areas of responsibility, and ensure target achievement
• Partner with Latin America Governance Council members to foster regional Talent Progression and to strengthen the Power of One Procurement in LATAM.
• At times, sponsor JJIM Procurement initiatives to deliver standardized process and value across the organization as a member of the JJIM Extended Leadership Team (ELT)

*Qualifications
Education:*

• Bachelors Degree is required, MBA or further advanced degree is desirable

*Required:
Experience and Skills:*

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

*Preferred:*

• Ability to present to large audiences
• Proven track record in attracting and developing talent
• Ability to encourage an organization to achieve stretch goals
• High level of credibility with internal customers, and with the supplier community, based on broad experience
• Experienced in leading cross-functional teams and driving significant change programs
• Multi-country and multi-industry experience with experience across geographies of varied sizes and businesses
• Proven flexibility and desire to respond to changes in the external environment, while ensuring the organization is able to effectively and efficiently move through transitions
• Proficiency in English (written and oral) is required
• Requires up to 10% domestic and international travel

*Job Function:*
Procurement

*Job Sub Function:*
Multi-Family Procurement

*Job Category:*
People Leader

Primary Job Posting Location:
Sao Paulo, Brazil

Additional Job Posting Locations:
Bogota, Colombia

*Legal Entity Name:*
São Paulo: 7585-Janssen Cilag Farmaceutica Ltda.

Colombia: 7060-Janssen-Cilag S.A.

*Pay Grade:*
40

*Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:*
Business Alignment, Business Data Analysis, Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Compliant Spend, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Inventory Optimization, Leadership, Market Savvy, Negotiation, Performance Measurement, Predictive Modeling, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Collaboration, Sustainable Procurement, Vendor Management, Vendor Selection