Procurement Manager

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

The Procurement Manager contributes to the development of multi-year strategies and business plans for Division and drives the execution of the Procurement vision with key colleagues in the division. The individual is a key partner to the divisional operations leader with a focus on strategy, execution and implementation. Facilitates the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimize quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost. Mitigates risk, uses technology, improves processes and systems, and reduces overall cost of ownership and acquisition.

EDUCATION

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

EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of procurement/sourcing management experience
• Proven and significant experience in ESI, NPI processes with third parties and outsourced development management
• Progressively responsible career path in manufacturing operations and procurement with significant practical experience in international settings
• Strong procurement and sourcing background

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• 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
• Demonstrated understanding of operations
• Strong analytical skills and process focus
• 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
• Excellent influence skills to impact change with peer roles and operations leaders throughout the division

SCALE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Establishes and implements short and long-term goals, strategic plans, policies and procedures for the Division aligned with Group and the divisional leadership team
• Translates Divisional business and Procurement objectives and targets to Category management teams and monitor category management contributions to these targets.
• Delivers on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement
• Coordinates 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
• Coordinates business projects (e.g. M&A integration)
• Provides input to make or buy and footprint decisions, supplier selection and supplier management for product innovation projects and vendor transitions, monitors the execution and communicates results to senior leaders
• Ensures alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division on projects
• Serves as the point of contact and ensure the implementation of Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Management

TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collects supplier (technical) capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier scouting
• Gathers Division business requirements and assures compliance to regulatory requirements
• Drives and tracks compliance for indirect materials
• Uses ‘scouting approach’ to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process, monitor product pipeline (LCM), support product platforming
• Serves as point of contact for Procurement within the Division
• Consolidates, analyzes and reports on divisional procurement metrics for business reviews

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Aligns the Procurement strategy with the Divisional Leadership team
• Ensures procurement value contribution to business and supports Division initiatives
• Manages division input to category strategies (Global, Group specific)
• Engages with supplier leadership to support the CM team and Division in achieving Thermo Fisher objectives related to quality, cost, innovation, growth and compliance
• Support the development and implementation of common processes, standardized work, use of tools and technologies