Procurement Partner

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

Business Title: Procurement Partner
Band: 7

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
• Confirmed experience in ESI, NPI processes with third parties and outsourced development management
• Dynamically responsible career path in manufacturing operations and procurement with significant practical experience in international settings
• Strong procurement and sourcing background. Procurement of Clinical Packaging, logistics and clinical trials experience preferred

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 validated team building skills
• Proven flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to expertly present sophisticated information at different levels of the organization.
• Results oriented, metrics driven leader with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach
• Proven understanding of operations
• Strong analytical skills and process focus
• Strong Project Management experience
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and unquestioned integrity and trust

SCALE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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 measure 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
• 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, measure 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

TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collects supplier (technical) capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier scouting.
• Handles divisional procurement savings portfolio
• Gathers Division business requirements and assures compliance to regulatory requirements
• Uses ‘scouting approach’ to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process, monitor product pipeline (LCM), support product platforming
• Consolidates, analyzes and reports on divisional procurement metrics for business reviews

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensures procurement value contribution to business and supports Division initiatives
• Handles 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