Director - Source to Pay

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

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.

EDUCATION

• A bachelor’s degree in business or technical field, concentration in Procurement or Supply Chain/Materials Management preferred or equivalent combination of experience and education. Master’s degree preferred.

EXPERIENCE

• Experience leading, implementing, expanding and evolving Source to Pay platforms in complex global environments.
• At least 5-7 years of experience in Procurement or Sourcing Leadership roles.
• Experience working across multiple and diverse organizations.
• Experience in leading process change and development required.
• Experience using ERP and SaaS solutions.
• Experience in Lean, VSM and Six Sigma.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Good working knowledge of ERPs (SAP, Oracle, Ariba, Coupa, etc.).
• Extensive experience of working in a matrix environment.
• Excellent business procurement and finance knowledge
• Experience in a global process role with control expertise along Shared Services exposure.
• Strong knowledge of latest thinking in the Procurement process, and expense management.
• Track record of influencing multi-functional partners to achieve a positive outcomes
• Understanding technology platforms across the procurement space including finance.

• Own and cultivate the Source to Pay processes within the global organization, standardizing where possible and supporting continuous improvement.
• Responsible for performance metrics
• Ensure that recommendations meet business and enterprise needs within a global procurement organization.
• Drive process consistency both within the systems and in connected processes.
• Provide advice to Finance, GBS, IT and Procurement leadership on the system/process implications of change.
• Lead all changes to processes globally to ensure consistency with the global standard operating procedure.
• Own and maintain process documentation.
• Provide regular proposals for process improvement based on the knowledge of third-party capability aligned with business requirements.
• Ensure system changes are appropriately tested and verified before implementation into a live environment.
• Work with Change & Communication function to ensure training needs and content requirements are met.
• Lead overall procurement, approval, and receiving business processes and to ensure proper alignment with accounts payable business processes.
• Drive efficiencies to take cost out the process through automation and service placement recommendations.