Janssen Italy - Category Manager Chemicals LATINA

Janssen Italy - Category Manager Chemicals
Latina
Lazio, LATINA

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Procurement is key enabler in driving and supporting Johnson & Johnson's growth.

Being part of procurement organization, the incumbent in this role will be driving and/or supporting all aspect spend performance such as reliability, innovation, costs, supply network readiness and corporate citizenship goals collaborating with wider procurement, and supply chain community.

For the Italian production plant of Janssen (Borgo San Michele - Latina) we are looking for a **Category Manager** **Chemicals **to be hired with a permanent contract.

This role is part of Enterprise Chemicals category supporting Pharmaceutical and Med Tech divisions of Johnson & Johnson.

The incumbent in this role will report to Senior Manager, Chemicals Category who is based in Latina, Italy.

Incumbent in the role will be primarily responsible for category management activities for defined sub-category spend and will drive spend performance such as reliability, innovation, cost optimization, supply network readiness and corporate citizenship goals

**Responsibilities may include**:

**Sourcing**:

- Leads or supports sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners and build adequate material capacities to support business

- Develops spend analysis and gathers market intelligence in alignment with business goals

- Influences business decision making to deliver ongoing value improvements and drive competitive advantage

**Category Strategy Development**:

- Develop / Support category sourcing strategy for defined spend portfolio through Business needs assessment, Market intelligence, Supplier evaluations and sourcing choices

- Demonstrates a deep understanding of the business needs and external market trends to support the development of robust sub

- category strategies

- Proactively engages business partners and/or category managers to identify their needs and incorporate those needs into sub-category strategies

- Develops and drives robust implementation of strategy and communication plan with defined buying channels and contracting strategies

- Establishes compliance reporting capabilities and track business compliance to strategies

**Supplier Management**:

- Develop and manage supplier partnerships / external manufacturing partnerships to drive performance delivery, risk mitigation, and value through supplier enabled innovation

- Cultivates and leverages strategic relationships with key business partners (e. g.

Internal stakeholders, supplier leadership, SRM/category leaders) to shape, optimize, and diversify the supply base

- Measure supplier performance through defined KPI's and implement improvement with underperforming suppliers

- Develops innovative and sustainable solutions to identify and mitigate risk, drive long-term, end-to-end value, and achieve unmet business needs.

Identifies and pursues opportunities to develop supplier capabilities

**Contracting**:

- Mitigates business risk through the understanding of commercial, legal and regulatory requirements and the use of efficient contracting channels leveraging standard processes and technology

- Negotiate long term contacts with managed supplier securing achievement of financial and reliability targets

- Uses procurement expertise and global business understanding to monitor the negotiation and execution of contracts

- Ensures that contracts execution meets with business expectations and in full alignment with stakeholders and the organization's overall procurement and business strategy

**Agile project support**:

- Leads, supports or engages as procurement expert in the projects ranging from contracting, supply reliability, innovation and new product development

- Act as procurement expert in support to cross material category specific or cross category or franchise initiatives

- Represent procurement in End-to-End supply chain initiatives of manufacturing network, digital tools/ technology adoption and resiliency

**Qualifications

- A minimum of bachelor's degree; preferably complemented by top-notch