Director, Category management and Procurement Excellence (m/f/d)

• Job title Director, Category management and Procurement Excellence (m/f/d)
• Function Procurement
• Sub function Multi-Family Procurement
• Category Director, Multi-Family Procurement (PL9)
• Location Aachen / Brussels / Diegem / Germany / Belgium
• Date posted Jun 05 2026
• Requisition number R-077692
• Work pattern Hybrid Work

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Director, Category management and Procurement Excellence

Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Abiomed

Job Description:

The Procurement leadership in Heart recovery business unit of Johnson & Johnson MedTech is currently recruiting Director of category management and Procurement Excellence. The position will be based in Aachen, Germany

Johnson & Johnson MedTech is a world leader in heart recovery that provides circulatory support and oxygenation. Our products are designed to enable the heart to rest and recover by improving blood flow and/or providing sufficient oxygenation to those in respiratory failure.

The position of Director, Category Management and Procurement Excellence reports to Sn Director of Global Procurement. This new position will be accountable to oversee external spending of all direct materials including precision materials, external manufacturing, and electronics categories used in Abiomed products. Direct materials play important role in Abiomed success and hence stronger category management in this spending will drive amplified business impact. The incumbent in position will be responsible for driving end-to-end spend performance including supply security, risk management, sourcing strategies and Innovation. This position is also responsible for driving procurement excellence across procurement, setting the role as very strategic and important in global procurement team.

The leader in this role will have responsibilities of overall team size is 15+ team members which includes direct reporting of 3 leads of category management and a lead of Data Analytics and governance. Leader in this role is expected to deepen category management capabilities capable, and build capable, and high performing team. This role offers future growth opportunities and hence demands candidate with proven strong performance, and balanced depth on operational and strategic procurement and supply chain topics, as well as strong people management skills.

Responsibilities:

• Build and shape strong supplier network to deliver current and future quality expectations, supply reliability, Innovation and Costs. Partner with Advanced sourcing teams to deploy sourcing choices guided by sourcing strategies
• Manage and elevate key strategic supplier relationships by partnering with cross functions across quality, planning, supplier engineering and R&D.
• Support quality remediations efforts in current supplier network by collaborating with supplier quality
• Deepen sourcing strategies, risk management and contracting excellence in direct materials by resulting in adequate supplier capacity for growth with efficient costs
• Deliver cost efficiency across TCO through sourcing capabilities and cross functional collaboration
• Drive procurement excellence roadmap by accelerating deployment and adopting new capabilities
• Develop talent capability to build high performing category management and procurement excellence team (including data Analytics and Governance). This responsibility includes team performance management
• Engage with peer functional directors cross functionally, and with J&J enterprise peer category directors to leverage and deploy best practices
• Engage and shape sourcing solutions in key strategic programs (e.g. Network strategies, Business continuity Planning, Long range financial planning etc.)
• Provide on-site leadership presence to Germany based procurement team, and represent E2E procurement in EU regional forums

The position holder will manage a direct team of 15+ and will have the following key internal and external relationships:

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required, MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Experienced professional in senior roles, with min 15+ years business experience in procurement or in supply chain functions with deep experience in procurement
• High level understanding of business operations and practices and core Procurement areas of focus (e.g. Category Management, Supplier Management, contract management, Supply Chain Integration, Business planning, Performance Management).
• Strong Customer Orientation (building and maintaining strong relationships with J&J senior Management).
• Strong leadership, vision/strategy setting, communication, influencing, collaboration, talent development skills are key
• Minimum of 7-year experience in people leadership, demonstrated through J&J or similar professional environment.
• Strong influencing skills with ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of stakeholders (e.g., businesses, Procurement LT, Marketing, R&D, Supply Chain); has "presence"
• Strong verbal and written communication skill with ability to confidently present complex information
• Fluent German and English language skills
• Ability to continuously improve the organization
• Proven track record in attracting and developing talent
• Proven track record in leading cross-functional teams and executing significant influencing roles.
• Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment, while ensuring the organization is able to effectively and efficiently move through transitions
• Able to travel frequently (~30% or less)

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The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

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.