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Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Procurement Business Engagement Leads

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium, Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

Senior Manager IM EMEA Agile Procurement

Possible location: Beerse, Belgium; Zug, Switzerland

Role Purpose

Accountable for shaping and leading procurement strategy and execution in support of the Innovative Medicine EMEA business strategy. The role serves as a trusted advisor to senior commercial and functional leaders, partnering with Procurement Category Leaders and regional leadership teams to influence business decisions, drive enterprise value creation, and develop procurement strategies that support growth, innovation, and operational excellence.

The focus is on translating evolving business priorities into regional procurement strategies and programs, ensuring alignment between global category direction and EMEA business requirements while strengthening procurement's role as a strategic business partner across the organization.

The role operates within an Agile Procurement model, providing leadership across complex, multi-market initiatives and strategic supplier ecosystems while acting as a critical connector between EMEA business leadership, Procurement Category Teams, Global Services, and external partners. The role is expected to influence decision-making beyond procurement, driving transformational initiatives that improve business outcomes, commercial effectiveness, and organizational capability.

In addition, the role requires strong engagement with senior and executive stakeholders to ensure procurement is embedded in strategic planning, investment decisions, and business transformation initiatives, delivering measurable impact across value creation, innovation, supplier performance, risk management, and business growth.

Key Responsibilities

Scope of responsibilities includes:

• Understand EMEA Innovative Medicine business priorities and shape regional procurement strategies that support commercial objectives, business growth, and organizational transformation.
• Partner with Procurement Category Leaders to influence category strategy development, ensuring global strategies reflect regional business needs, market realities, commercial priorities, and emerging opportunities.
• Provide thought leadership in marketing procurement, including agencies, data & analytics, marketing operations, distributor services, AI-enabled services, and commercial innovation, shaping long-term sourcing strategies and supplier ecosystem design.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior EMEA business leaders, influencing business decisions and ensuring procurement considerations are embedded early in strategic planning and investment discussions.
• Identify and anticipate market trends, supplier developments, innovation opportunities, and competitive dynamics to strengthen procurement strategies and business performance across EMEA.
• Lead highly complex, high-value, multi-market sourcing programs, strategic negotiations, supplier restructurings, and transformation initiatives with significant commercial, operational, and financial impact.
• Develop and lead executive-level supplier relationships and governance frameworks to drive innovation, performance improvement, risk mitigation, and long-term value creation.
• Drive delivery of enterprise value creation objectives, including cost optimization, business growth enablement, operational efficiency, commercial effectiveness, supplier innovation, and risk reduction across assigned scope.
• Lead strategic procurement transformation initiatives and contribute to the ongoing evolution of the Agile Procurement operating model, including new capabilities, digital enablement, AI adoption, and enhanced ways of working across Procurement, Global Services, and business stakeholders.
• Provide regional leadership across multiple markets and business units, ensuring alignment of procurement priorities, consistent execution, and effective deployment of procurement resources.
• Mentor and develop procurement professionals, acting as a role model for stakeholder engagement, strategic sourcing excellence, innovation, and business partnership across the EMEA procurement organization.
• Represent Procurement in leadership forums, business planning discussions, and regional transformation initiatives, ensuring procurement perspectives are incorporated into key organizational decisions.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

Education: Bachelor's degree required; MBA, Master's degree or equivalent preferred.

Experience: 10+ years of procurement, strategic sourcing, commercial, or business partnership experience, including leadership roles in complex, multinational organizations.

Industry Experience: Pharmaceutical / life sciences strongly preferred.

Skills

• Proven ability to shape procurement strategy and influence business outcomes across multiple markets, business units, or spend categories.
• Strong executive stakeholder management and influencing capabilities, including experience partnering with senior commercial and functional leaders.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale sourcing programs, strategic negotiations, supplier partnerships, and procurement transformation initiatives.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect procurement decisions to commercial objectives, growth strategies, financial performance, and organizational priorities.
• Experience operating as a regional procurement leader within complex matrix organizations, influencing without formal authority.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution excellence across multiple priorities, markets, and stakeholder groups.
• Strong leadership capabilities, including coaching, mentoring, and capability building across procurement organizations.
• Extensive experience collaborating across Procurement Category Teams, Agile Procurement Teams, Global Services, and senior business leadership.
• Deep understanding of marketing procurement, including agencies, data & analytics, marketing operations, distributor services, and emerging commercial capabilities.
• Strong understanding of supplier ecosystem management, innovation programs, executive supplier governance, and value creation beyond traditional cost savings.
• Proven ability to lead operating model improvements, and digital or AI-enabled procurement initiatives.
• Strong financial, commercial, and risk-management skills with the ability to make complex business trade-offs and recommendations in ambiguous environments.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Data Analysis, Business Requirements Analysis, Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Change Management, Compliant Spend, Continuous Improvement, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Critical Thinking, Financial Competence, Industry Analysis, Mentorship, Negotiation, Organizing, Performance Measurement, Procurement, Procurement Policies, Procurement Systems, Program Management, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Thinking, Supplier Collaboration, Technical Credibility, Vendor Management

  

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€96,000.00 - €165,025.00

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.