Procurement/Sourcing Specialist III

Work Schedule

Environmental Conditions

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.
DESCRIPTION:

The Procurement Specialist III – Biochemicals & Biologicals, manages and continuously improves the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other key colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develop sourcing strategies, negotiate contracts, support spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and manage preferred supplier relationships.

Scale of Responsibilities

• Completes global category initiatives and manages projects to deliver key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc

• Supports the execution of global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting 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

• Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals

• Supports supplier business reviews with suppliers to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards and continuous improvement goals

• Leads the impact of cost and risk when developing contracts

• Drives negotiations 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

Education, Experience, Knowledge

• Bachelor’s degree required 

• Minimum of 2 years of related experience

• Experience working in highly regulated industries preferred

• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results preferred

• Demonstrated consultative/collaborative style in performing sourcing activities preferred

• Influences without authority to motivate and manage a cross-functional team in multiple geographies preferred

• CPSM or equivalent is preferred

• Hands-on manufacturing and/or supply chain experience is preferred

• Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred

• Ability to travel up to 20%