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 **Job Function:** Supply Chain Manufacturing **Job Sub** **Function:** Multi-Family Supply Chain Manufacturing **Job Category:** People Leader **All Job Posting Locations:** Irvine, California, United States of America **Job Description:** We are seeking an experienced Senior Director of Supply Chain to lead end-to-end supply chain, ensuring efficient, reliable, and cost-effective operations. This role requires a strategic leader who can optimize supply chain processes, drive continuous improvement, and collaborate cross-functionally to meet business goals while saving costs over the long-range financial plan. The Senior Director of Supply Chain will manage a team and work closely with internal departments and external partners to enhance operational performance, drive continuous improvement and deliver sustainable growth. The Senior Director of Supply Chain will be responsibility for seamless collaboration (internal / external) to resolve operational and technical issues, and execute key projects, while maintaining optimal inventory levels and mitigating slob. The Senior Director will manage a dynamic team responsible for operations, technical and project delivery. **Key Responsibilities:** + **Program Management & Project Execution:** Lead end-to-end management of supply chain initiatives, ensuring projects are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with strategic goals. Establish KPIs to monitor supply chain performance, analyze data for insights, and report on operational health to senior leadership. + **Cross-Functional Partnering:** Collaborate effectively with R&D, Manufacturing, Procurement, Quality, and Commercial teams to solve complex issues and streamline operations. + **Supplier Partnership & Issue Resolution:** Build and maintain strong relationships with key suppliers, proactively addressing risks and resolving supply disruptions swiftly. + **Process Optimization, Innovation & Dual Source:** Implement best practices, lean methodologies, and technology solutions to improve supply chain efficiency and reduce costs. Develop and implement dual sourcing strategies to minimize risks and enhance supply chain resilience, thereby improving margins + **Risk Management & Compliance:** Identify potential risks within the supply chain and develop contingency plans, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and standards. + **Inventory & Demand Planning:** Ensure proper inventory levels are maintained to meet business needs while minimizing excess or obsolete stock. + **Timeline & Delivery Management:** Manage project timelines and deliverables, ensuring alignment with business priorities and financial targets. + **Financial Impact & Performance:** Drive initiatives that contribute to an accelerated, robust portfolio that delivers best-in-class returns over the LRFP, monitoring progress, costs, and efficiencies. Proactively reduce product costs while maintaining outstanding quality standards. Evaluate and replace direct materials with cost-effective alternatives to optimize production expenses. + **Team Leadership & Development:** Lead, mentor, and develop a team of approximately direct team, align with the cross functional team, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and accountability. **Qualifications:** + Collaborative Leader: Foster alignment among team members and stakeholders to achieve common objectives. + Project Execution Expertise: Leverage cross-departmental support to successfully implement complex projects. Ensure excellence in Project Management in the execution of projects and provide best practices for entire E2E Supply Chain. Proven ability to manage large teams and complex supplier relationships. + Strategic Vision: Advocate for key initiatives, securing resources essential for achieving supply chain goals. Assess future needs and develop and deploy a technical, talent and business strategy to address those needs. Excellent communication, negotiation, and problem-solving skills. + Matrix Organization Navigation: Navigate effectively within a highly matrixed organization, coordinating across multiple functions. + Experience with financial planning, budgeting, and delivering multi-million dollar cost savings. + Knowledge of industry best practices and emerging trends in supply chain operations. Required Qualifications + Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering discipline or other technical degree. + 10+ years medical device manufacturing, quality and/or R&D. + 5+ years minimum of people management experience, proven track record of managing and developing extensive teams of direct reports. + Experience leading large programs and technical engineering teams is required. + Industry experience in Medical Device Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Quality and R&D is preferred. + Ability to travel 30% domestic & international **About Cardiovascular** Fueled by innovation at the intersection of biology and technology, we’re developing the next generation of smarter, less invasive, more personalized treatments. Are you passionate about improving and expanding the possibilities of Cardiovascular? Ready to join a team that’s reimagining how we heal? Our Cardiovascular team develops leading solutions for heart recovery, electrophysiology, and stroke. You will join a proud heritage of continually elevating standards of care for stroke, heart failure and atrial fibrillation (AFib) patients. Your unique talents will help patients on their journey to wellness. Learn more at https://www.jnj.com/medtech 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 and 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 email the Employee Health Support Center (ra-employeehealthsup@its.jnj.com) or contact AskGS to be directed to your accommodation resource. **The anticipated base pay range for this position is :** 173,000-299,000 Additional Description for Pay Transparency: · 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. · Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees and/or eligible dependents are 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. · Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)). · This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.