Manager, Procurement – Biochemicals and Biologicals

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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 and will support the Corporate Global Business Services (GBS) Division.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Manager, Procurement – Category, typically owns category management for level 3 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, lead strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.

A Day in the Life:

Scale of Responsibilities

• Acts as the key category collaborate with 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.

• Uses 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

• Handles the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented.

• Leads 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

• Under the direction of Sr Director, Director or Sr Manager, drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures on going cross team collaboration.

• Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide

• Works with Division Business Partners and functional partners to gather business requirements for category strategy development.

• Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal partners and reporting of sourcing impact.

• Leads a Global Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend and in 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.

Keys to Success:

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field (Highly Preferred).

Experience

• 5- 7 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience in a highly regulated company required, experience in the assigned category highly preferred.

• Minimum 3 years experience leading and procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management.

• International experience (plus) – working experience in different countries/regions/languages.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority.

• Proven track record to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization

• Strong negotiation and presentation skills.

• Solid understanding 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.

• Must be able to work across all functions and levels of an organization.

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.”