Sr Procurement/Sourcing Specialist

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Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Job Title: Sr Procurement/Sourcing Specialist

Band 7

Job Code: OPS.PROC.P07

Join Thermo Fisher Scientific to make a global impact through meaningful work with 130,000 colleagues.

How will you make an impact?

Program management within the procurement team, driving key initiatives across a global network of divisions, groups, functions and categories to ensure successful program delivery. Lead project planning, development, management and budgeting. Directs on-time, quality delivery of work products; leads implementation economics, risks and communications.

What will you do?

Scale of Responsibilities

• Defines the program structure, the plan with key milestones; facilitates agreement of proposed solutions from functional, business unit and site leadership, site operations, and other key partners
• Leads multiple projects at a time with well-documented and organized skills to support enterprise and functional objectives
• Implements effective communication plans and delivers presentations to propose key initiatives, provide critical implementation updates, operational line-of-sight, and demonstrate delivery of value within the organization
• Identifies and develops mitigations for key risks and analyzes the impact of those risks on the project and through scenario planning
• Performs analysis to identify value, through financial analysis, define implementation plans and resources required to achieve results
• Reports and provides insights on projects, pipeline (with Group/Category), and AOP financial targets, including adoption of a standard tool and processes
• Coordinates data inputs across the function to enable key reporting insights
• Uses business partner inputs and knowledge of existing systems and constraints to develop standard reporting requirements and drive process improvements
  
  

Technical Responsibilities

• Applies consistent project management approaches and processes, identifies and reports roadblocks and variances to project plans, ensures projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives
• Tracks and monitors timely completion of project achievements within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report progress
• Leads project governance, including regular cadence of PMO sessions (schedule, prepare for, run and drive follow-ups for key meetings)
• Leads overall project plans, schedules, budgets, resources, timelines
• Detects and facilitates issue resolution and/or appropriate actions and addresses program risk
• Maintains document repository and file structure as well as access rights; owns cataloging and leading version control on key documents
• Uses PPI business systems and processes to drive continuous improvement
  
  

Leadership Responsibilities

• Leads global, cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to achieve desired outcomes
• Identifies and documents resource constraints
• Influences key partners to achieve outcomes on time and within plan, develops relationships within the company to complete assigned projects
• Facilitates breakthrough thinking by integrating diverse views while participating in targeted content analysis sessions to enable problem solving
• Collaborates with Procurement Enablement on reporting cadences to aim to a single source of truth for the savings pipeline and inflation
  
  

How will you get here?

• Bachelors and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, or Science. MBA desirable
• Certification in Project Management is desirable
• Six years experience in global programs and project initiatives, preferably in Procurement
• Life Sciences, BioTech, or Pharma industry preferred
• Experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Category Management preferred
• Process improvement background (PPI, Lean, Six Sigma, etc) preferred
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Robust project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, and budget financials and baseline development)
• Outstanding analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Excellent skills for structuring ideas in a clear and concise manner and presenting to Senior Leadership
• Strong proficiency in MS-Office tools (specifically, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Ability to efficiently prioritize forums and coordinate communication with team members
• Ability to work independently, within a team, and across teams
• Ability to lead matrix project teams of peers and other partners across multiple sites and platforms in a virtual office environment
• Multi-tasking skills and planning for prioritizing personal workload
• Ability to travel between 10-30% on an annual basis
  
  

Benefits

We offer 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 a company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation

We accommodate individuals with disabilities for application, interview, job functions, and employment benefits.