Production and Industrial - Supply Center Specialist

Job Description : Supply Center Specialist Job Description

Position Objective

To carry out the on-site product inventory maintenance and optimization of the Supply Center and support eBusiness initiatives. Supply Center Specialists work closely with the Thermo Fisher Sales Team to optimize the inventory and customer experience of these onsite stocking programs to ensure continued growth of Supply Centers!

Essential Functions

Working at Thermo Fishers' largest volume and highest service level customer locations, the SCS is responsible for ongoing inventory, mix optimization, and customer experience to ensure Supply Center annual growth goals are met, including :

• Maintaining inventory and storage units (e.g. receiving deliveries, unpacking stock, restocking, cleaning unit, performing physical inventory and maintaining visual ID and branding standards)
• Ordering inventory (e.g. use SCMS or manual systems for collecting daily sign-out sheets or forms, compiling a list of depleted inventory, placing restocking orders and adding new products as needed)
• Rotating inventory to ensure "first-in, first-out" and minimal product expirations.
• Ensure the proper mix of products in the Supply Center to match the constantly evolving needs of the customers that use the SC by adding and deleting products and supporting new product introductions
• Ensure that customers have a positive experience and confidence with inventory within the Supply Center by maintaining merchandising standards, branding standards, and accurate inventory quantity and product mix and maintain equipment condition
• Proactively seek feedback and look for opportunities to improve our business relationships both internally and externally
• Maintain corporate approved labeling and signage, and branding of Supply Center, including ensuring adequate levels of promotional material, sign-out sheets and other administrative materials as directed (including compiling MSDS and Cert of Analysis)
• Respond to customer inquiries (e.g. establish system for spot orders, update inventory) Maintain customer lists, reports and records (e.g. compiling transactions for billing purposes)
• Provide real-time customer and competitive intelligence to Supply Center team and sales account teams on a regular basis
• Determine, in consultation with Supply Center team and sales account manager, customer inventory requirements
• Support eBusiness initiatives by sharing account specific knowledge and maximizing key account relationships
• Use the preferred ordering mechanism, SCMS.
• Implement and assist with product shows, seminars, on-site promotions, and other on-site promotional events tied to Supply Center
• Communicate (and establish) ideas for on-going inventory management efficiency to the SC team and your account's sales AM and DM.
• Complete all required training
• Will perform other related duties as the need arises and / or assigned including training backfill SCSs and new hires.

Experience / Requirements :

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Additional Sills : Skills :

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Experience

Soft Skills Create Spreadsheets No 3 Soft Skills Oral and Written Communication Skills No 9 Technical Skills Inventory management No 5