Sr. Director, Procurement - Clinical Research Group

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

EDUCATION

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

EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of 15 years of work experience, 8 in Procurement and at least 7 years of past people leadership experience
• 7+ years’ experience leading and managing diverse globally located remote based procurement staff with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
• High level of proficiency with core Procurement skills relevant to sourcing outsourced clinical trial services
• Strong influencing skills with ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of colleagues
• Significant business acumen and proven team building skills
• Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to confidently present complex information
• Results oriented, metrics driven leader with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES

• Strong procurement and sourcing background
• Demonstrated understanding of operations
• Progressively responsible career path in manufacturing operations and procurement with significant practical experience in international settings
• Strong analytical skills and process focus
• Able to communicate effectively and empower global constituents to meet business objectives, and possesses strong presentation skills at all levels of the organization
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and unquestioned integrity and trust
• Travel - approximately 10-20% - domestic and global

Requires extensive knowledge of the required onboarding due diligence and continuous assessment of regulatory, compliance, and risk for suppliers used for global clinical trials including audit support by pharma and biopharma customers and worldwide regulatory agencies.

• Requires strategic business partnering with Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Clinical Operations, Project Management, Patient Advisory Services and Quality, along with Global Procurement colleagues in other categories and overseas, Legal, IT, HR, and Finance.
• Extensively partners with CDSD Business Development and Alliance Account management to create cohesive solutions across the CRG enterprise in a customer facing role to grow revenue via these partnerships. Actively participates and consults in bid preparation and defense.
• Establishes and implements short and long-term goals, strategic plans, policies and procedures for the Division aligned with the Group performance metrics
• Delivers on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement
• Understands 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
• Partners with Supply Chain to create demand plans for supplier partners
• Works closely with Shared Service and Procure to Pay (P2P) process team to ensure an efficient end to end delivery models
• Responsible for the coordination of business projects and programs (e.g. M&A integration, make or buy, vendor transition, CSR), monitoring execution and communicating results to senior leaders
• Ensures alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division on projects
• Serves as the point of contact and ensures the implementation of Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Managemen

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

Scale of Responsibilities

• Global procurement category ownership with responsibility for strategic through tactical-level execution for the following globally subcontracted services for Thermo Fisher’s CRO business (Phase 1B-4) across all therapeutic areas: central laboratory, diagnostics services (Imaging, ECG, ambulatory blood pressure monitoring etc.), Clinical IT Solutions (IVRS, EDC, ePRO etc.) centralized services, patient services, home nursing, clinical ancillary materials and specialty CRO services.
• Commercial support of CRG’s worldwide cGMP, Bioanalytical, Vaccine, and Global Central Labs with a deep understanding of laboratory operations within the life sciences and pharmaceutical industry.

Requires extensive knowledge of the required onboarding due diligence and continuous assessment of regulatory, compliance, and risk for suppliers used for global clinical trials including audit support by pharma and biopharma customers and worldwide regulatory agencies.

• Requires strategic business partnering with Medical Affairs, Regulatory, Clinical Operations, Project Management, Patient Advisory Services and Quality, along with Global Procurement colleagues in other categories and overseas, Legal, IT, HR, and Finance.
• Extensively partners with CDSD Business Development and Alliance Account management to create cohesive solutions across the CRG enterprise in a customer facing role to grow revenue via these partnerships. Actively participates and consults in bid preparation and defense.
• Establishes and implements short and long-term goals, strategic plans, policies and procedures for the Division aligned with the Group performance metrics
• Delivers on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement
• Understands 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
• Partners with Supply Chain to create demand plans for supplier partners
• Works closely with Shared Service and Procure to Pay (P2P) process team to ensure an efficient end to end delivery models
• Responsible for the coordination of business projects and programs (e.g. M&A integration, make or buy, vendor transition, CSR), monitoring execution and communicating results to senior leaders
• Ensures alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division on projects
• Serves as the point of contact and ensures the implementation of Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Management

TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Captures Division business requirements and assures compliance to regulatory requirements
• Engages with Supplier Partners, ensuring capacity to meet demand and works with Category Management to close gaps
• Serves as escalation point of contact for Procurement within the Division, and works with Categories to resolve problems
• Consolidates, analyzes and reports on divisional procurement metrics for business reviews
• Drives and tracks compliance for indirect materials, as well as link with Global team for policies and procedures

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provides division input to category strategies (Global, Group specific) and support implementation of aligned strategies
• Works with supplier leadership (Vice President, General Managers, President, Functional and Operations Leaders) to solve business problems and assure alignment with Thermo Fisher objectives
• Develops and assess purchasing talent and improve resource productivity and professionalism
• Mentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
• Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
• Drives the development and implementation of common processes, standardized practices, use of tools and technologies that can be scaled company wide