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.

Excellent Benefits Package

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Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits-effective Day 1

Paid Time Off & Holidays

401K Company Match up to 6%

Tuition Reimbursement – eligible after 90 days!

Employee Referral Bonus

Employee Discount Program

Recognition Program

Charitable Gift Matching

Company Paid Parental Leave

Career Advancement Opportunities

The Procurement Manager – EMS (electronic manufacturing services), drives the category strategies encompassing multiple sites to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates with a team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, contracts, supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and handle preferred supplier relationships.

Responsibilities

• Leads global category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators including pricing, cost savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management
• Leads the execution of a 3 to 5-year global sourcing strategies passionate about working with preferred suppliers that meet key business needs and category management goals

Technical Responsibilities

• Monitors market intelligence and key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements
• Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
• Analyze category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement
• Actively participates in supplier business reviews with suppliers to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards and goals
• Leads strategic contracts across suppliers, products and services within category
• Facilitates spend intelligence and analysis to internal business leaders in order to enhance their decision making
• Drives discussions for global agreements aligned with category strategy

Leadership Responsibilities

• Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure all category sourcing activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities
• Establishes category plans and priorities globally and ensures alignment with divisional business priorities

How will you get here?

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field. Master’s Degree desired
• Minimum of 7 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience
• Business insight – knows how to assess market/business requirements dynamics and agreements that yield meaningful business value
• Experience working in highly supervised industries
• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results
• Demonstrated consultative/collaborative style in performing sourcing activities
• Influences without authority to empower and handle a cross-functional team in multiple geographies.
• CPSM or equivalent
• Hands-on manufacturing and/or supply chain experience is preferred
• Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred
• Ability to travel 25 to 50%