Sr Category Analyst - Indirect Procurement

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in business analysis, business administration, finance or related field
• Certification in Project Management is desirable

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years of procurement category management, sourcing, or purchasing/supply chain experience
• 3+ years program/project management experience within a consultancy organization or within a consulting capacity is strongly preferred
• Experience working in a matrix-based procurement environment, driving program analytics, program management and executing strategic procurement initiatives
• Business Analyst experience focused on cost assessments, low cost sourcing, Return on Investment development, supplier performance preferred
• Experience analyzing procurement data to draw business relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools
• Program management experience in a matrix-based procurement environment

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Robust project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, key deliverables, business case and baseline development)
• Shown experience in eliciting requirements
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to structure ideas in a clear and concise manner
• Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• Understanding negotiating strategies and formulating business requirements
• Able to lead change and effectively communicate with and present to Senior Leadership
• Strong financial competence and ability to make recommendations on and deliver assigned projects
• Ability to lead matrix project teams of peers and other partners and navigate within a matrix environment
• Multi-tasking skills and planning for prioritizing personal workload
• Ability to travel between 10-30% on an annual basis

SCALE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads global category complex programs in excess of $700M that require multi region / multi source / multi stakeholder collaboration and coordination
• Develop and deliver executive-level presentations as part of the monthly operating model to propose and obtain support for key initiatives, provide implementation updates, and demonstrate value pull through
• Evaluates operational supplier metrics to drive improvements to strategic programs, and supports category teams in managing supplier relationships to increase value
• Performs data discovery, analysis and modeling to identify value, develop business cases, perform financial and options analysis, identify target objectives and create implementation/resource plans to ensure projects contribute to the organization
• Responsible for the monthly Value Capture Key Process Indicator reporting process, monthly communication plan on initiatives impacting the global programs
• Reports on key targets, projects, pipeline (with Group/Category visibility), and AOP financial targets, profitability, including adoption of a standard tool and processes
• Coordinates data sets from multiple sources, formats, and processes to synthesize and develop key program insights to drive ongoing program and category value
• Uses business partner inputs and knowledge of existing systems to develop standard reporting requirements, drive process improvements across divisions, countries, sites and analyze process issues

TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Writes clear and well-structured business requirements/documents
• Collaborates with Sites to gather key sourcing / program requirements, gain sign-off on supplier selections operational proposals and awards
• Consolidates and synthesizes key data sets from multiple sources to develop programs/insights to deliver category value
• Tracks and monitors timely completion of project targets within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report that progress as required
• Uses Lean/ Practical Process Improvement methodologies to drive continuous improvement
• Proactively engages with team members to identify and document resource constraints
• Influences key partners to achieve key targets on time and within plan, develop relationships within the company to complete assigned projects
• Facilitates breakthrough thinking by integrating diverse views while participating in targeted content deep dive sessions to enable problem solving
• Collaborates with Procurement Enablement on reporting cadences to achieve a single source of truth for the savings pipeline and inflation