Director, Procurement - Shockwave Medical

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Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Multi-Family Procurement

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Santa Clara, California, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is hiring for a Director, Procurement – Shockwave Medical to join our team located in Santa Clara, CA.

Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Ready to join a team that’s pioneering the development and commercialization of Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) to treat complex calcified cardiovascular disease. Our Shockwave Medical portfolio aims to establish a new standard of care for medical device treatment of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease through its differentiated and proprietary local delivery of sonic pressure waves for the treatment of calcified plaque.

Position Overview 

The Global Procurement Director provides leadership and strategic direction for all Circulatory Restoration procurement activities, including direct material planning and purchasing, indirect procurement, and strategic sourcing. This role is accountable for ensuring material availability, supplier performance, cost competitiveness, supply continuity, and effective execution of procurement strategies in support of business, operational, and customer requirements. 

Essential Job Functions 

• Enterprise strategy and partnership: Define a multi-year procurement and category strategy aligned with growth, portfolio, margin, quality, and continuity goals; advise senior leaders using market, spend, and scenario insights. 

• Value creation: Deliver total-cost, productivity, working-capital, demand-management, and commercial-innovation improvements. 

• Supply resilience: Build a scalable, diversified supplier and contract manufacturing network; anticipate capacity, geopolitical, financial, quality, technology, and single-source risks. 

• Supplier and commercial leadership: Segment and govern critical suppliers, strengthen performance and innovation, and lead high-value or high-risk negotiations and agreements. 

• Product lifecycle enablement: Partner across R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Commercial teams on design-to-value, supplier selection, NPI readiness, scaling, transitions, and end-of-life plans. 

• Procurement transformation: Advance the operating model, governance, policies, processes, data standards, ERP, automation, analytics, and decision-support capabilities. 

• Performance and compliance: Establish KPIs and executive reporting while maintaining ethical sourcing, audit readiness, delegated authority, quality-system requirements, and legal compliance. 

• Organizational leadership: Build a high-performing procurement organization with the capabilities, succession depth, and credibility to support current operations and future growth. 

People Leadership Responsibilities 

• Set clear direction, priorities, decision rights, goals, and accountability for the procurement organization. 

• Attract, retain, and develop diverse talent; build succession and capability plans for critical roles. 

• Coach leaders and team members through timely feedback, stretch opportunities, and transparent career discussions. 

• Create an inclusive, high-trust environment that encourages collaboration, early risk escalation, and sound decision-making. 

• Set rigorous performance expectations, recognize strong contributions, and address gaps promptly and fairly. 

• Lead change with clarity and empathy while building strategic, commercial, digital, analytical, negotiation, and supplier-management capabilities. 

Leadership Competencies 

• Strategic and financial acumen: Connects procurement decisions to customer, portfolio, financial, operational, and long-term outcomes. 

• Executive influence: Distills complexity into clear choices, recommendations, and stakeholder alignment. 

• Talent leadership: Builds strong teams, develops successors, delegates effectively, and fosters accountability and inclusion. 

• Transformation leadership: Mobilizes stakeholders and sustains adoption of new capabilities and ways of working. 

• Judgment and innovation: Makes timely, principled decisions and converts market, technology, and supplier insights into advantage. 

• Collaboration: Builds trusted partnerships, manages constructive tension, and resolves complex issues. 

Requirements 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field; advanced degree preferred. 

• 12+ years of progressive procurement, sourcing, contract manufacturing, supply chain, or supplier-risk experience, including 5+ years leading managers or professional teams in a complex, regulated, or global environment. 

• Proven success building multi-year procurement strategies that create value, strengthen resilience, and support growth. 

• Experience leading executive supplier relationships and complex negotiations involving price, capacity, quality, service, risk, and contracts. 

• Strong knowledge of manufacturing and supply-chain economics for medical devices, electronics, components, and contract manufacturing; NPI and scale-up experience preferred. 

• Experience leading procurement transformation, including operating models, governance, ERP/MRP, digital tools, analytics, and process standardization; QAD or Oracle preferred. 

• Strong financial, analytical, communication, negotiation, and executive-presentation skills, with the ability to influence senior cross-functional stakeholders. 

• Track record of building inclusive, high-performing teams and developing leaders and successors. 

• Working knowledge of applicable quality and compliance requirements, including traceability, QSR, ISO, and medical-device regulations. 

• CPM, CPSM, or equivalent certification preferred. 

Additional Information

• The Company maintains highly competitive, performance-based compensation programs. Under current guidelines, this position is eligible for an annual performance bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable plan. The annual performance bonus is a cash bonus intended to provide an incentive to achieve annual targeted results by rewarding for individual and the corporation’s performance over a calendar/performance year. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion on an individual basis.
• Employees and/or eligible dependents may be eligible to participate in the following Company sponsored employee benefit programs: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, and group legal insurance.  
• Employees may be eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). 
• Employees are eligible for the following time off benefits: 
  • Vacation – up to 120 hours per calendar year  
  • Sick time - up to 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington – up to 56 hours per calendar year  
  • Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays – up to 13 days per calendar year 
  • Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year  
• Additional information can be found through the link below. https://www.careers.jnj.com/employee-benefits

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act. 

Johnson & Johnson is committed to providing an interview process that is inclusive of our applicants’ needs. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request an accommodation, please contact us via https://www.jnj.com/contact-us/careers  or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource.

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Alignment, Business Data Analysis, Business Savvy, Category Management Strategy, Compliant Spend, Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), Developing Others, Inclusive Leadership, Industry Analysis, Inventory Optimization, Leadership, Market Savvy, Negotiation, Performance Measurement, Predictive Modeling, Risk Management, Stakeholder Management, Supplier Collaboration, Sustainable Procurement, Vendor Management, Vendor Selection

 

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is :

$172,000.00 - $297,850.00

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