Procurement/sourcing Specialist III

Work Schedule

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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.

How will you make an impact?

The Procurement/Sourcing Specialist III helps develop and implement long-term strategies to improve quality, cycle time, technology, and cost for the Division. They collaborate with divisional operations leadership to implement the Procurement vision.

What will you do:

Scale of Responsibilities

• Lead supplier relationships and handle customer concerns regarding materials and services for the Drug Products Division in the Pharma Services Group.
• Required to identify risk, reduce cost, and implement new sources of material and services to minimize financial and operational risk to the business.
• Participate in negotiations and projects to implement proactive procurement philosophies, strategies, policies, and procedures for successful integration into multiple business plans across various sites.
• Responsible for identifying, negotiating, and implementing cost savings initiatives working with cross-functional teams.

Technical Responsibilities

• Prepares data and analyzes cost trends, external and internal key performance metrics, and proposing process improvement and the generation or management of key reports, metrics, and projects.
• Collects supplier (technical) capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier sourcing opportunities.
• Support the improvement and implementation of common processes, standardized work, use of tools and technologies.
• Influence PDS and Commercial partners earlier in New Product Introduction process, build product pipeline, support product platforming.
• Consolidates, analyzes and reports on divisional procurement metrics for business reviews.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Delivers on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement.
• Partners with Category Managers, Business Partners, Engineering to deliver annual value improvements and drives competitive advantage.
• Collaborates with Category Leads to align on preferred suppliers and facilitate rollout to the site for both indirect and direct materials.
• Engages with supplier leadership to support Thermo Fisher objectives related to sustainability, quality, cost, innovation, growth and compliance.

How will you get here?

Education/Experience

• Minimum High School Diploma
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Materials Management or Business preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of purchasing/procurement or supply chain experience in a manufacturing or pharmaceutical environment.
• ERP system experience (SAP, Oracle, Ariba, etc.).

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• High level of proficiency with core Procurement skills (financials, sourcing).
• Strong influencing skills and the ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of colleagues.
• Significant business insight and shown team building skills.
• Proven flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to authoritatively present sophisticated information.
• Results oriented, metrics driven leader with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach.
• Proven understanding of operations.
• Strong analytical skills and process focus.
• Strong leadership, collaborative skills, and unquestioned integrity and trust.
• Excellent influence skills to impact change with peer roles and operations leaders throughout the division.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company savings plan, and a range of employee benefits! We offer 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.