Work Schedule
Standard (MonFri)
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Office
Job Description
Business Title: Manager Procurement Packaging
Band: 7
Job Code: OPS.PROC.M07
About Thermo Fisher Scientific:
Join Thermo Fisher Scientific to make a global impact develop solutions for tough challenges and advance your career.
Manages category strategy for level 3 categories across different locations and divisions. Works with crossfunctional teams to ensure alignment with business objectives.
Scale of Responsibilities
- Acts as the key category conduit to relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
- Accountable for the multiyear category strategy and planned objectives timelines and goals
- Analyzes crossdivisional 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 develop and drive 3 to 5 year global sourcing strategies identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
- Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise partners
- Handles the contracting process and leads coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately detailed
- Owns 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
- Engages with Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations to consolidate suppliers.
Leadership Responsibilities
- Under the direction of Director 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 companywide
- Works with Division Business Partners and functional partners to gather business requirements for category strategy development
- Build and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal partners and reporting of sourcing impact
- Leads a Global Category Team develops staff to build 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
Education Experience Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred) Finance and/or Technical field
- Minimum 5 years of procurement/sourcing experience with growing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment experience in the assigned category
- Minimum 2 years experience leading and procurement teams with a focus on mentoring coaching and performance management
- Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities influence without authority
- Experience leading crossfunctional teams in a Global organization
- Strong negotiation and presentation skills
- Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
- Strong project management skills
- Requires ability to handle ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
- Ability to work across all functions and levels of an organization
- International experience (plus) working experience in different countries/regions/languages
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 forwardthinking organization and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity intensity involvement and innovation.
Required Experience:
Manager