Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sr Director, Procurement/Sourcing
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Morrisville, North Carolina, United States, 27560
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 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.
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 works 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.
Scale of Responsibilities:
Acts as the key category collaborator with all levels within Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets.
Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan 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.
Considers 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, and risk assessment.
Leadership Responsibilities:
Drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross-team collaboration.
Champions the use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide.
Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development.
Creates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact.
Leads a Global Category Team to create 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 required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field.
Minimum 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 category.
7+ 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 authority.
Consistent record to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization.
Strong negotiation and presentation skills.
Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process.
Strong project management skills.
Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information.
Capable of working 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 a 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.
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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 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.
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 works 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.
Scale of Responsibilities:
Acts as the key category collaborator with all levels within Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets.
Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan 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.
Considers 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, and risk assessment.
Leadership Responsibilities:
Drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross-team collaboration.
Champions the use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide.
Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development.
Creates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact.
Leads a Global Category Team to create 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 required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field.
Minimum 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 category.
7+ 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 authority.
Consistent record to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization.
Strong negotiation and presentation skills.
Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process.
Strong project management skills.
Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information.
Capable of working 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 a 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.
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