Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
The Sr Manager, Procurement – Resins and Sterilization Services owns category management for level 2 global categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. 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, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.
What will you do?
Scale of Responsibilities
Connects key categories to relevant 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 and business continuity
Uses 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 goals
Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues
Runs the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business
Drives 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 suppliers
Leadership Responsibilities
Typically works under the direction of a Sr Director or Director, 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-wide
Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
Leads a Global/Regional Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed 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
How will you get here?
Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Bachelor’s Degree required
Graduate Degree in Business Preferred
Minimum 6 years of procurement/sourcing experience
3+ years people management experience
Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority
Proven ability 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!
