Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

About Thermo Fisher Scientific:

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join over 100,000 80,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s 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 Sr Director, Procurement – Mechanical, owns category management for multiple enterprise-wide global categories encompassing multiple sites, divisions and groups with complex requirements. These comprise mechanical assemblies, materials, components and specialist ultra-high vacuum machining / nano-scale positioning product. 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, leads strategic supplier relationships, and drives continuous improvement year over year savings.

Scale of Responsibilities

Acts as the key category collaborate with all levels within Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targetsAccountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goalsAnalyzes cross-divisional spending and develop global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business unitsDemonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levelsConsiders 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 strategiesChampions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability and risk assessment and business continuityUses 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 goalsCommunicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleaguesHandles the contracting process and leads coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documentedLeads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management processAssesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the businessDrives 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 suppliersWorks alongside the developing Cost & Value Engineering Centre to support assembly & instrument redesign in pursuit of cost down / value up and margin improvement.

Leadership Responsibilities

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-wideWorks with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy developmentCreates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impactLeads a Global Category Team to create expertise in both the areas of spend and in strategic sourcing processesMentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvementImplements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results

Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical fieldMinimum 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 category7+ years' experience leading and running procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management

Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authorityConsistent record to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organizationStrong negotiation and presentation skillsStrong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management processStrong project management skillsRequires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete informationCapable of working across all functions and levels of an organizationInternational 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 great company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.”

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.