Sr Manager, Procurement/Sourcing - Human Resources at Thermo Fisher Scientific in Morrisville, North Carolina

Job Description:

Work Schedule

Standard Office Hours (40/wk)



Environmental Conditions

Office



Job Description



As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll 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's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.



Location/Division Specific Information

Position reports to the Morrisville, NC, or Pittsburg, PA sites, and will support the Corporate Global Business Services (GBS) Division.




Discover Impactful Work:



The Sr Procurement Manager - HR Services - drives the execution of complex global category strategies necessary to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates and leads a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies and handles supplier relationships.




A Day in the Life:




Scale of Responsibilities

• Responsible for strategy input and implementation for complex and strategic categories
  
  

• Delivers key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc
  
  

• Develops multi year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying suppliers that meet key business category management goals
  
  

Technical Responsibilities

• Uses structured Category Management process to provide input into category strategies
  
  

• Analyzes market intelligence to identify key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements. Competent in category and supplier segmentation to effectively focus on key suppliers
  
  

• Engages and supports division/site procurement teams to qualify key suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, poor performance suppliers
  
  

• Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals
  
  

• Leads supplier based business reviews with selected suppliers to drive strategic priorities as well as handle key performance indicators
  
  

• Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy
  
  

Leadership Responsibilities

• Influences cross-functional colleagues(quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure category strategies and activities are aligned with divisional business priorities
  
  

• Works with external supply partners and leads cross-functional internal teams to advance key business drivers such as supply continuity, quality, cost and operational performance
  
  

• Selectively may work to develop supplier strategic partnerships. Secures capacity with suppliers (e.g. tool/asset management)
  
  

• Collaborates with Procurement Enablement team to develop predictive analytics
  
  

• Acts as a coach/mentor to colleagues on category strategy process
  
  

Keys to Success:





Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business or technical field preferred. Master's Degree is highly preferred.
  
  


• High school diploma or equivalent required.
  
  


• CPSM or equivalent is preferred
  
  

Experience

• Minimum of 5-7 years procurement/sourcing experience in highly regulated company, with strong category/business engagement experience required.
  
  

• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results.
  
  


• Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred .
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Demonstrated consultative, collaborative and influencing style in performing sourcing activities.
  
  


• Ability to solve complex problems.
  
  


• Requires strong business acumen.
  
  


• Requires solid communication skills.
  
  


• Requires excellent analytical, organizational, interpersonal, and time management skills.
  
  

Benefits



We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation." Apply Now