Sr. Manager (m/f/d) Supplier Engineering

Johnson & Johnson is currently seeking a Sr. Manager (m/f/d) Supplier Engineering to join our Abiomed Team located in Aachen, Germany. 

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 Responsibilities:

The Senior Manager Supplier Engineering is part of the global sourcing organization and reduces overall supply risk through understanding of supplier capabilities and disaster preparedness using appropriate tools. Abiomed is present in most markets of the world, representing more than $1 billion of revenue with projected strong growth and premier market positions. He is part of all local scale-up activities at Abiomed’s vendors while building and managing strong vendor relationships that support business objectives and new product introduction. In close collaboration with the other leaders in the sourcing organization he will manage key capacity-increase and Quality at the source projects and is accountable for conducting effective performance management and meaningful career development.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities :

• Directs and develops a part of the local supplier engineering organization of approx. 15 employees (people manager & individual contributors)


• Demonstrates superior teamwork in working with peers in manufacturing engineering, quality, planning & procurement, logistic, lifecycle engineering and product development to facilitate joint supplier projects/programs


• Technical lead for any supplier qualification & first article inspection


• Strong involvement in supplier evaluation and development program


• Strongly driving part obsolescence replacement & qualification


• Collaboration with global Supplier Quality Assurance organization ensuring external suppliers are qualified, purchased products and services meet specifications, regulations, and quality standards. Technical Lead for any supplier qualification and first article inspection (2 nd sourcing, scale-up at vendors, yield improvement)


• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives and process optimizations


• Drive the engagement, quality and output of the core suppliers


• Reduce overall supply risk through understanding of supplier capabilities & capacities and the implementation of risk mitigation (second sourcing, vendor scale-up, yield improvement/ quality at the source programs)


• Identification and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities