Manager, Procurement/Sourcing
at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Waltham, MA 02451, USA -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 29 Jul, 2024 | Not Specified | 04 May, 2024 | 5 year(s) or above | Supply Chain,Purchasing,Operations | No | No |
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Description:
JOB DESCRIPTION
The Procurement Manager – Plastics, typically owns category management for level 3 categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a Category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Builds organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement savings.
REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor’s degree with studies in Business, Operations, Supply Chain or related field
5+ years of materials planning, purchasing, and sourcing experience.
5+ years of verifiable experience in a people leadership role.
Responsibilities:
SCALE OF RESPONSIBILITIES
- Acts as the key category interface with relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
- Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
- Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
- Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels
- Leverages financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy
TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
- Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability, risk assessment and business continuity
- Leverages AQSCIR (Assurance, Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, Regulatory) method to develop and drive 3 to 5 year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
- Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise partners
- Manages the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
- Manages the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
- Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and leverages predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business
- Drives supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations (e.g. sourcing engineers) to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES
- Under the direction of Sr Director, Director or Sr Manager, drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures on going cross team collaboration
- Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
- Works with Division Business Partners and functional partners to gather business requirements for category strategy development
- Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal partners and reporting of sourcing impact
- Leads a Global Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed and in strategic sourcing processes
- Mentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
- Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:5.0Max:10.0 year(s)
Logistics/Procurement
Purchase / Logistics / Supply Chain
Supply Chain Management
Graduate
Or related field
Proficient
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Waltham, MA 02451, USA