Procurement/Sourcing Specialist II

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

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

CTD partners with pharmaceutical and biotech customers around the world to ensure the right patients get the right therapies in the right doses at the right time – a concept that we internally accept as “There is a Patient Waiting.” Our unique blend of services includes project management, packaging, distribution, transportation management and specialty logistics, ancillary supply management, clinical supply optimization, bio-repository storage and much more. Our more than 3000 employees in over 15 countries work hard every day knowing that what they do matters.

A day in the Life:

• Collaborate with functional leaders to plan and flawlessly implement sources of supply, supplier management programs, and drive cost savings.
• Handle contract portfolios to ensure commercial obligations are closely met and proactively handle renewals or replacements of existing agreements.
• Demonstrate commodity expertise.
• Produce and handle RFP documents to identify the most suitable sourcing solutions that meet business requirements, and bargain with suppliers for excellent value and cost savings.
• Proactively seek savings opportunities across commodity spend.
• Support process improvements and bold process change initiatives.
• Establish and improve relevant Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Build vendor performance metrics/scorecard and review/report quarterly (minimum).
• Analyze both historical and forecasted usage for materials and establish robust supply chain processes regarding order quantities, replenishment, safety stock levels, etc.
• Understand critical-to-service materials/commodities and assess business risk with sole-sourced vendors. Identify and qualify alternate vendors to mitigate supply disruptions.
• Conduct all activities in a safe and efficient manner.

Keys to Success:

Education

• A four-year, Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited college or university in Business, Management, Engineering or scientific field or equivalent experience.
• Consideration may be given to those who hold 5 years of dynamically responsible and relevant work experience.

Experience

• Must have a proven track record in leading the sourcing and qualification process for 3rd party suppliers, negotiating commercial terms, and managing complex supplier relationships.
• APICS, CPM, CPIM certification preferred.
• Demonstrated track record of strong results.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Analytical experience compiling and reporting spend, discounts, pricing reductions, etc.
• Project management, including the ability to effectively handle multiple tasks.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Supplier relationship management.
• Teamwork and team building.
• Contract negotiations.
• Supplier development.
• Price cost analysis.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Decision making.
• Effective information presentation and query response.
• Analytical and problem solving.
• Attention to detail.
• Proficiency in personal computer applications (e.g. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook).
• Basic understanding of regulatory requirements such as GMPs and GCPs.

BENEFITS:

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, 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.