Senior Direct Sourcing Specialist

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

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 130,000 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. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

EDUCATION

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, operations, or supply chain management.
• Master’s degree in business administration or engineering. (Nice to have).
• At least 8 years of work experience in direct sourcing, preferably in mechanics and/or electronics.
• High level of English language proficiency (verbal and written).

EXPERIENCE

• Excellent category-specific sourcing and category management skills in key spend portfolios in Direct (mechanical and/or electronics).
• Expert understanding of multi-step strategic sourcing processes and strategies.
• Sourcing expert with strong experience with sourcing processes, supplier management, and contract negotiations.
• Experience leading technical projects in a matrixed environment.
• Project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, key results, case development).
• Excellent communication proficiencies for structuring ideas clearly and concisely with technical and functional partners at various levels of the organization.
• Influential business leader with a proven record in establishing relationships across functions.
• Strong customer service orientation and attention to detail aligned with high standards of quality and excellence.
• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results.

• Lead the execution of sourcing activities to support category strategy implementation for medium- to high-degree complexity initiatives.
• Liaise with internal customers and category owners to ensure supplier program operations meet expectations.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis and benchmarking for strategic transactions.
• Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms for assigned sourcing initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure requirements are clearly gathered, documented, and translated to RFX and contracts as appropriate.
• Research potential vendors and develop RFX for sourcing initiatives assigned.
• Negotiate contract terms of agreement and pricing, delivering and recording annual P&L savings.
• Track and report key functional metrics for the Procurement Center of Excellence and the category.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external team members. Collaborate with other teams to achieve common goals and ensure effective cross-functional communication.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior sourcing specialists on category-specific requirements and sourcing in general.