Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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 cross-functional 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 multi-year category strategy and planned 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 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 company-wide
- 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
- Bachelor’s 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 cross-functional 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, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.
