Senior Specialist, Agile Procurement Latam

At Johnson & Johnson, the largest healthcare company in the world, we come together for one purpose: to transform the history of health in humanity.Diversity & Inclusion are essential to continue building our history of pioneering and innovation, which has been impacting the health of more than 1 billion patients and consumers every day for more than 130 years. Regardless of your race, belief, sexual orientation, religion, or any other trait, YOU are welcome in all open positions at the largest healthcare company in the world.When You Join Johnson & Johnson, Your Move Could Mean Our Next Breakthrough.Our vision is to be the best-in-class Health & Wellness organization by leveraging the commercial strategy to deliver competitive advantage and value creation for the consumer, customer, and J&J. And as part of one of the largest and most diverse healthcare companies in the world, our brands leverage the company’s world-class research tools and scientific prowess to provide consumers across the globe with innovative consumer medicines, skin, baby, and essential health solutions.You deserve to work in a place where you feel well and welcome.The New Consumer Health Company is recruiting for a **Senior Specialist, Agile Procurement LATAM** as member of the LATAM Hub to be located in **Ciudad de México.****Purpose**:The Senior Specialist of Procurement, is leading Procurement activities across all spend categories for the region, driving alignment between business and category strategies. The specialist will drive strategic business and industry engagement to establish a reliable, resilient, and effective supply base for the company, and will also be tasked with delivering on end-to-end targets by driving activities including, but not limited to, Regional Category Management (where applicable), Supplier Management, Sourcing, Contracting, Innovation.The Specialist will be accountable to delivering bold financial targets, including cost and working capital improvement. Further, the manager will deliver against a balanced value proposition including innovation, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), and procurement process excellence. The specialists must embrace agile ways of working and drive projects with curiosity and passionThe Specialists of Procurement will be a critical partner of regionally/local market-based Leadership Teams in the New Consumer Health Company.**Responsibilities**:- Engage in the development of all category strategies to establish a world class organization and supply base that the New Consumer Health Company can use to its advantage to create a competitive advantage- Ensure effective incorporation of company strategy and goals into category strategies- Deliver regional financial, ESG, service, and innovation targets- Steward financial policy and responsible supplier and procurement standards- Leverage and magnify fit for purpose procurement process solutions, including the utiliworld-classorld class digital solutions, use of business process outsourcing, and deployment of internal resources for the region- Engage with executive leadership in key supplier relationships- Cultivate a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion- Benchmark industry-standard processes and continuously advance procurement capabilities.**Qualifications**:**Qualifications and requirements**:**Position Requirements**- Bachelor’s Degree is required- A minimum of 5 years of working experience in procurement or a related expertise is required,- Advanced level of English and Spanish is a must. Portuguese is a plus- Extensive knowledge of the LATAM region is required- Demonstrated leadership and deployment of standard processes in ESG strategies is required- Leadership, communication, influencing, and collaboration skills are required- Experience in identifying and harnessing customer oriented innovative solutions is required- Proven track record delivering against a balanced portfolio of key performance indicators is required- Ability to influence and understand the diverse needs of internal customers is required- Travel up to 10% domestic & international may be required**Preferred Requirements**- Experience in the consumer goods industry preferred- Demonstrated experience of regional category management/ execution is preferred- Experience in both direct and indirect Procurement is an asset- Track record of working with Agile ways of working.- Strong project management skills, with experience leading cross-functional projects are required.- Demonstrated effectively working remotely with business partners- Demonstrated experience influencing in a matrixed environment is required- Analytical skills to perform data analyses in support of sourcing strategy development