Category Manager Direct Precision Materials

Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Danvers
Posted on: February 15, 2025

Job Description:

Abiomed, a part of Johnson & Johnson MedTech is recruiting for a Category Manager for Direct Precision Materials, located in Danvers, MA.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. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/.Abiomed is a standalone business within Johnson & Johnson MedTech sector. Abiomed products are present in most markets of the world, representing more than $1 billion of revenue with projected strong growth and premier market positions. The spend in support of this business resides in multiple categories and sums up more than 500Million$ per year. With highly innovative heart saving products, Abiomed is one of the highest growing businesses of Johnson & Johnson.This position will report to the Associate Director for Direct Precision Materials (DPM). The DPM category is key for Abiomed's business and comprises subcategories of Metals, Ceramics, Precision Plastics, Packaging and Chemicals. This position as category manager will be in the lead for at least one of the above mentioned subcategories. The Category Manager will develop, and /or support sourcing strategies and supplier strategies under guidance of Category Leader. In this role, you will plan, direct, and support the delivery against targets for financial performance, supply reliability across quality & service, and compliance adherence. This responsibility includes the need for strong engagement with internal stakeholders (particularly those located in Danvers, MA) and robust connection with our key external partners (particularly US based).Key Responsibilities:Category Management

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• Develop and/or support the category sourcing strategy for the defined portfolio through Business needs assessment, Market intelligence, Supplier evaluations and sourcing choices.
• Proactively engage business partners to identify needs and incorporate those needs into sub-category strategies.
• Build supply network through developing, identifying suppliers applying deep subject matter expertise based on supply market analysis, industry intelligence.
• Understand supply market trends, competitor analysis to deliver proactive sourcing strategies.\rSourcing
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  • Lead or support sourcing initiatives to identify the right supplier partners, Influence decisions, delivering on-going value improvements while driving competitive advantage.
  • Develop spend analysis and gather market intelligence in alignment with business goals.
  • Develop and lead cost management initiatives; Prepare and execute RFQs for medium to high complexity sourcing decisions; Conduct negotiations with suppliers.
  • Build short term, and long-term capacities with suppliers to support business growth.
  • Deliver on financial, service, reliability, quality, innovation, and growth commitments.
  • Build and maintain relationships throughout Abiomed that results in dynamic interactive dialogue on a broad range of perspectives and information critical to the development of optimal approaches and solutions.
  • Drive sourcing activities for defined categories to support new products under development.\rSupplier Management
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    • Develop and manage supplier partnerships to drive performance delivery, risk mitigation, and value through supplier enabled innovation.
    • Cultivate and use strategic relationships with key business partners (e.g., Internal partners, supplier leadership) to shape, optimize, and diversify the supply base.
    • Develop innovative and sustainable solutions to identify and mitigate risk, drive long-term, end-to-end value, and achieve unmet business needs. Identify and pursue opportunities to develop supplier capabilities.
    • Conduct Business Review meetings with suppliers that include holistic supplier performance management and review.\rContracting
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      • Systematically and efficiently manage contract creation, approval, administration, and compliance to maximize financial and operational performance while minimizing risk.\rProject Support
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        • Represent procurement in End-to-End Supply Chain initiatives of the manufacturing network, capacity programs, digital tools/technology adoption, and resiliency.
        • Support the development and drive the Procurement vision for, with and through our stakeholder community.
        • Lead / Support projects in defined spend scope, to deliver procurement performance metrics.\r\r

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