Senior Director, Procurement EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services)

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Position: Senior Director Procurement EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services)

Reports To: VP Procurement

Location: Morrisville NC

COMPANY INFORMATION

When youre part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific youll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 100000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. Youll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment making sure our food is safe and helping find cures for cancer.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Senior Director Procurement will lead category management for Electronic Manufacturing Services and High Level Assemblies encompassing multiple sites divisions and groups with complex requirements. 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 creates robust sourcing strategies negotiates agreements manages strategic supplier relationships and drives continuous improvement year over year savings.

Key Responsibilities:

Scale

• Connects key categories with all levels within 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 develop global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units without compromising quality and service levels
• 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
• Considers financial planning forecasting P&L performance inventory cash flow tariffs and inflation to inform strategy

Technical

• Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
• Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity sustainability and risk assessment and business continuity
• Utilizes AQSCIR (Assurance Quality Service Cost Innovation Regulatory) method to develop 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 colleagues
• Runs the contracting process and leads 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 uses 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

• Drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration.
• Champions use of eSourcing Spend Visibility and P2P tools company-wide
• Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
• Creates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
• Leads a Global Category Team 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

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred) Finance and/or Technical field

• Minimum 15 years of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment minimum 10 years experience in the assigned category
• 7 years experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring coaching and performance management
• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities influence without authority
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
• Strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong knowledge 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
• Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
• International experience (plus) working experience in different countries/regions/languages

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!

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.