**Work Schedule** Standard (Mon-Fri) **Environmental Conditions** Office **Job Description** Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, growing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 100,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD. **The Position** **Key responsibilities** include, but are not exclusively: + Focus on building strong, flexible team able to cope with daily as well as long-term challenges, support sustainable growth, motivate change management, bring fun and pride philosophy into teams, focus on employer brand. + Lead team members’ professional development by goal setting and providing challenges for further growth, focus on career planning (successors, critical skills management, leadership skills development) and conduct performance reviews. + Secure alignment in company goals, manage department´s KPI. + Allocates the workload among the Sourcing Support team. + Focus on open and straight forward communication loop, implement and deploy 4i culture in all areas. + Drive PPI business system in daily work, drive continuous improvement. + Supervise the cooperation between Procurement team and Sourcing Support team. + Represents the Sourcing Support function to the stakeholders in the organization. + Non-standard order process management with focus on the smooth PO REQ flow progress, approval policy, purchase order completeness and high quality. + Data acquisition management for newly released Items in the ERP system. + Maintain Sourcing attributes and structures in the ERP and other operation systems. Focus on data accuracy. + Acts as first level escalation for issues related to the Sourcing Support team. + Can lead projects. + Manages Sourcing Support related IMS documents. + Working in compliance with legislation and IMS. **Requirements:** + Fluent communication in English (both written and spoken) is a must. + Proven track of record in procurement/sourcing function. + Knowledge of ERP-systems. **Competencies:** + Self-motivated, objectives driven personality with strong customer orientation. + Drive for improvement in processes and efficiency. + Continuous improvement approach. + Capacity to drive teams and individuals to the next level. + Stress-resistant. + Ability to operate in corporate company with matrix-organizational setup. + Ability to work in an international environment. 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.