Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category

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Job Function:

Procurement

Job Sub Function:

Category

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

Beerse, Antwerp, Belgium

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category. This position may be based at a Johnson & Johnson location in Florida, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Beerse, Belgium.

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.

Position Overview

The Senior Manager, R&D Procurement, Biomarkers Category will develop, lead, and manage the Biomarkers category strategy supporting Innovative Medicine R&D Clinical Development. This role will translate scientific and clinical business needs into market-informed category strategies, supplier strategies, sourcing approaches, contracting pathways, and governance models that enable access to current and emerging biomarker technologies while delivering procurement value, business continuity, quality, compliance, and speed to innovation.

The role will partner closely with Biomarker Development, Clinical Trial teams, Therapeutic Area stakeholders, Partnerships/Vendor Management, Legal, Finance, Quality, Data Science/Digital partners, Global Services sourcing, and other Procurement category teams. The role is expected to manage a dynamic and technically complex supply market across exploratory biomarkers, primary and secondary biomarker assays, companion diagnostics, assay development, specialized testing platforms, and adjacent laboratory services.

Category Scope

• Exploratory biomarker testing services and custom biomarker assay work performed by external labs.
• Primary and secondary biomarker assay services, where sourced directly or in partnership with Central Labs.
• Companion diagnostics and assay-related services that support clinical development needs.
• Technology platforms including molecular technologies, cellular technologies, immunoassays, pathology, next-generation sequencing, digital pathology, multi-omics, and related emerging capabilities.

Responsibilities

Category strategy and business partnership

• Determine global Innovative Medicine business needs for the Biomarkers category across Clinical and Exploratory Biomarkers, including evolving therapeutic area demand, technology shifts, supply market dynamics, and pipeline-driven requirements.
• Develop, implement, and refresh the global Biomarkers category strategy, including category guidance, supplier segmentation, preferred vendor models, governance approach, contracting strategy and implementation plans.
• Partner with internal scientific, clinical, biomarker, business development, vendor management, finance, quality, legal, and digital stakeholders to align procurement strategy to business priorities and clinical trial needs.
• Translate complex scientific and supplier-market information into executive-ready insights, decision recommendations, and clear implementation plans for procurement and business leadership.

Sourcing, market intelligence, and supplier strategy

• Identify market insights, benchmarks, peer-to-peer learnings, innovation signals, and supplier capability trends to create value and address current and future business needs.
• Develop sourcing approaches that balance assurance of supply, quality, service, cost, innovation, compliance, and speed to decision.
• Support contracting pathways that enable both strategic supplier partnerships and agile test-and-learn models for low-risk, exploratory biom