Director, Divisional Procurement Partner

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

Business Title: Director, Procurement Partner - Division

Scale of Responsibilities

• Establish and implement short and long-term goals, strategic plans, policies and procedures for the Division aligned with the Group performance metrics
• Deliver on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement
• Coordinate long range strategies with the business partners across the Division and implement plans
• Partners with Category Managers, R&D, Engineering to deliver annual value improvements and drives competitive advantage
• Partner with Supply Chain to create demand plans for supplier partners
• Work closely with Shared Service and Procure to Pay (P2P) process team to ensure efficient end to end delivery models
• Responsible for the coordination of business projects and programs (e.g. M&A integration, make or buy, vendor transition, CSR), monitoring execution and communicating results to senior leaders
• Ensure alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division on projects
• Serve as the point of contact and ensure the implementation of Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Managemen

Technical Responsibilities

• Gather Division business requirements and assures compliance to regulatory requirements
• Engage with Supplier Partners, ensuring capacity to meet demand and works with Category Management to close gaps
• Drive and track compliance for indirect materials, as well as link with Global team for policies and procedures
• Use ‘scouting approach’ to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process, monitor product pipeline (LCM), support product platforming
• Serve as escalatio point of contact for Procurement within the Division, work with Category Management to resolve problems
• Consolidate, analyze and report on divisional procurement metrics for business review

Leadership Responsibilities

• Provides division input to category strategies (Global, Group specific) and support implementation of aligned strategies
• Engage with supplier leadership (Vice President, General Managers, President, Functional and Operations Leaders) to solve business problems and assure alignment with Thermo Fisher objectives
• Develop and assess purchasing talent and improve resource productivity and professionalism
• Mentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
• Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
• Drive the development and implementation of common processes, standardized practices, use of tools and technologies that can scaled company wid