Leader, Sourcing & Supplier Management

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 125,000 outstanding minds has a unique story to tell. Join us in enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. Surrounded by collaborative colleagues, you’ll have the support and opportunities that only a global leader can give you. Our respected, growing organization has an outstanding strategy for the near term and beyond. Take your place on our strong team, and help us make significant contributions to the world.

SCALE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators including: new product introductions, savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, business risk
• Leads the development and execution of a 3 year global sourcing strategy, identifying and contracting with preferred suppliers that meet key business needs and category management goals
• Champions the Procure to Pay process, leading improvements across the ANZ business to enable a smooth and streamlined experience for our colleagues, and our customers
• Supports the wider ANZ business as local lead on ESG (Environment, Social and Governance), collaborating with other dedicated people in the business to ensure emerging local customer requirements are well run and in line with ANZ’s strategic ambitions.

TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Analyze category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals
• Facilitates free-flow of spend intelligence and analysis to internal business leaders in order to improve decision making
• Actively leads and participates in supplier business reviews to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards and continuous improvement
• Takes charge of strategic contracts across suppliers, products and services within category
• Coordinates external intelligence, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements
• Engages and supports key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & where needed, to migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
• Finds and implements new opportunities though insight, influence and commercial resourcefulness !

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure all category sourcing activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities
• Establishes category plans and priorities globally and ensures alignment with divisional business priorities