Director, Procurement Partner

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

ABOUT THERMO FISHER SCIENTIFIC:

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

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Procurement, Engineering, Supply Chain/Materials Management, Business Logistics or a related area or equivalent experience; MBA preferred

EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 12 years of procurement/sourcing experience
• Strong understanding of GMP and CDMO practices
• High level of proficiency with core Procurement skills (engineering, sourcing)
• Strong influencing skills with ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of colleagues
• Significant business knowledge and proven team building skills
• Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently present complex information
• Results oriented, metrics driven leader with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Strong procurement and sourcing background
• Demonstrated business knowledge and understanding of operations
• 5+ years’ experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Progressively responsible career path in manufacturing operations and procurement with significant practical experience in international settings
• Strong analytical skills and process focus
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, and the ability to communicate effectively to empower global constituents to meet business objectives, and possess strong presentation skills at all levels of the organization
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and unquestioned integrity and trust

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 point of contact for critical Procurement issues 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