Job Description

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you\xe2\x80\x99ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world\xe2\x80\x99s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. Location: This is an onsite position, 4 days per week at one of the below locations:

• Waltham, MA
• Morrisville, NC
• Cincinnati, OH
• Greenville, NC
• High Point, NC
• Florence, SC
• Whitby, Canada
• Toronto, Canada

How will you make an impact? The Sr Manager, Procurement \xe2\x80\x93 Drugs & Pharma owns category management for level 2 global categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a Category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Builds organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings. Scale of Responsibilities

• Connects key categories to relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
• Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
• Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
• Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels
• Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs, and inflation to inform strategy.

Technical Responsibilities

• Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
• Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability, risk assessment and business continuity
• Leverages AQSCIR method to develops and drive 3-to-5-year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
• Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise partners
• Manages the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
• Manages the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
• Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and leverages predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business
• Drives supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations (e.g., sourcing engineers) to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Typically works under the direction of the Director, Procurement, Drugs and Pharma and drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration
• Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
• Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
• Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
• Leads a Global Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the managed spend areas and in the strategic sourcing processes
• Mentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
• Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
• Proficiency with the English language

How will you get here? Education

• Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field

Experience

• Minimum 10 years\xe2\x80\x99 of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, minimum 7 years\xe2\x80\x99 experience in the assigned category
• 3+ years experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities \xe2\x80\x93 influence without authority
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
• Strong project management skills
• Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
• International experience (plus) \xe2\x80\x93 working experience in different countries/regions/languages

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one global team of 90,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued. Apply today! http://jobs.thermofisher.com