Senior Manager IM EMEA Agile Procurement

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 10+ years of procurement, strategic sourcing, commercial, or business partnership experience, including leadership roles in complex, multinational organizations
• 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

Nice to have:

• MBA, Master's degree or equivalent
• Pharmaceutical / life sciences industry experience
• 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

Benefits

• 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
• 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
• Service anniversary and recognition awards
• Participation in several insurance plans (subject to terms of respective plans)

Important Details

• Locations: Beerse, Belgium; Zug, Switzerland

About the Company

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.

At Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine, we innovate with purpose, to lead where medicine is going.

Headquarters

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Open jobs

3762

Website

jnj.com