SR Manager, Vision Supply Chain Procurement

SR Manager, Vision Supply Chain Procurement

Johnson & Johnson Med Tech, a member of Johnson & Johnson's Family of Companies, is recruiting for a SR Manager, Vision Supply Chain Procurement. This position will be located in Irvine, California.

The Senior Manager, SV SCP is responsible for leading the Procurement organization supporting approximately $120MM in Surgical Vision spend, characterized by high complexity and technical categories.

This role defines and executes category and supplier strategies to deliver financial performance, supply reliability, quality, service, and compliance commitments. The individual serves as a key business partner to Surgical Vision leadership and represents Procurement on the SV Equipment Supply Chain Leadership Team.

The role provides global leadership across supplier relationship management (SRM), category strategy development, and supplier reliability programs, ensuring robust risk identification across both first‑ and second‑tier supply networks.

Key

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead development and execution of category strategies aligned to business priorities
• Deliver cost improvement (CIP) to meet margin expansion goals
• Translate long‑term business requirements into actionable procurement strategies
• Drive competitive advantage through innovation, cost, and supplier capability development
• Own relationships with strategic suppliers, including executive-level engagement
• Drive supplier performance across quality, delivery, cost, and innovation
• Lead contract strategy, negotiations, and ongoing performance management
• Strengthen supplier partnerships to improve end-to-end value delivery
• Act as a strategic partner to SV stakeholders (Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, Engineering)
• Align procurement strategies with demand, NPI, and lifecycle needs
• Ensure delivery of financial, operational, and growth commitments
• Lead supplier reliability and risk management programs
• Conduct structured assessments across multi-tier supply chains
• Proactively identify and mitigate risks impacting continuity of supply and financial performance
• Escalate critical risks to senior leadership with clear mitigation actions
• Lead and develop a high-performing team (direct reports as applicable)
• Influence global and cross-functional stakeholders
• Build organizational capability across strategy, negotiation, and supplier management

Required Skills:

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Science, preferably complemented by other Master's qualification
• Demonstrated success in:
• Strategic sourcing and category management
• Supplier relationship management (SRM)
• Financial value delivery and negotiation
• Minimum 8-10 years of relevant work experience, preferably inside and outside Procurement and similar sectors or industries

Preferred

Skills:

• Deep strategic procurement experience and broad-based understanding of supply-chain and business operations and processes
• Proven people management and development skills
• Strong leadership, clear communication, strong influencing & collaboration skills will be crucial to deliver successfully in the role.
• Strong Business, Finance and Procurement Acumen.
• Ability to build sound, fact-based recommendations that are compelling and provides the right motivation for action
• Clarity in terms of thought and strong critical reasoning skills to enable meaningful discussions with internal stakeholders and suppliers
• Strong verbal and written communication skill with ability to confidently present complex information
• Ability to go beyond the day-to-day operational cycle of purchasing and truly approaching procurement in a strategic and intelligent manner
• Business-focused and oriented, and being able to translate business needs into tangible procurement goals and strategies
• Excellent ability to synthesize large amount of data to draw meaningful insights and to drive valuable discussions with internal stakeholders and suppliers
• Strong risk management capability

Other:

• This position will require up to 20% of travel
• The attendance policy for this requisition in JNJ Flex Hybrid

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