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About Thermo Fisher Scientific:
When youre part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific youll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join 80000 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.
How will you make an impact
The Procurement Specialist EMEA working in a newly formed indirect Tactical Sourcing Team you will seek out suppliers and negotiate optimal terms of business to meet business requirements for specific sites divisions or geographies
You will make a positive impact on the operation of the business and its financial performance
What will you do
Scale of Responsibilities
Gather business requirements from stakeholders as the basis for securing proposals and quotes from suppliers
Use e-sourcing system for all sourcing activities (RFI RFP RFQ) providing full visibility of the activities and responses from suppliers
Craft negotiation plans and close deals securing optimal terms from suppliers for assigned sourcing initiatives
Collaborate with Regional category managers to support the execution of category strategies by running sourcing events for defined scopes of work
Engage with business collaborators to understand their requirements bringing in others within procurement where category expertise is vital
Ensure suppliers are set up for success when transacting with Thermo Fisher working together with colleagues in Shared Service Centers
Technical Responsibilities
Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent non-preferred suppliers
Seek out and engage with vendors assessing their capabilities and motivations to be a supplier to Thermo Fisher Scientific
perform cost and capability analysis of suppliers and their proposals
Negotiate contract terms and report on the commercial impact to record productivity improvements
Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (operations facilities marketing finance and legal) to provide a proactive procurement service
Brings an authoritative understanding of comparing costs proposals and quotations on a like for like basis
Personal competencies
Strong service and professional orientation does what you say you will do makes and keeps commitments to timelines and project achievements
Commercially oriented to negotiate and secure the best value for money for Thermo Fishers purchases
Desire to grow and develop as a procurement specialist
Agility and flexibility to develop sourcing expertise in multiple categories (Corporate services Sites services IT Travel) complimenting the regional category team
Curious and tenacious to seek out detailed solutions from vendors
Ability to collect analyze and interpret data to inform sourcing decisions
Great presentation skills and high ability to articulate in written formats
How will you get here
Bachelors degree in Business or technical field
Minimum of 3 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies which have multiple business units/ profit centers
Experience working in highly regulated and/or technical industries
Confirmed consultative/collaborative style establishing relationships with multiple stakeholders
Professional written and oral English language capability; additional European language (especially German) is a plus
Ability to travel 15 to 25%
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.
EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on 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 a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process to perform crucial job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.
Required Experience:
IC
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