Sr Procurement Manager - Plastics
at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Pittsburgh, PA 15205, USA -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 25 Sep, 2024 | USD 118100 Annual | 25 Jun, 2024 | 7 year(s) or above | Project Management Skills,Mentoring,Coaching,Presentation Skills,Working Experience | No | No |
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Description:
EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
- Minimum 10 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, minimum 7 years’ experience in the assigned category
- 3+ years experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
- Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority
- Ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
- Strong negotiation and presentation skills
- Solid understanding of the strategic sourcing and category management process
- Strong project management skills
- Requires ability to take care of ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
- Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
- International experience – validated working experience in different countries/regions/languages
Responsibilities:
SCALE OF RESPONSIBILITIES
- Connects key categories to 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
- Considers 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 and risk assessment and business continuity
- Uses 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 colleagues
- Runs the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately detailed
- Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
- Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses 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
- Typically works under the direction of a Sr Director or Director, drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross collaboration
- Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
- Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
- Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
- Leads a Global/Regional 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:7.0Max:10.0 year(s)
Logistics/Procurement
Purchase / Logistics / Supply Chain
Logistics
Graduate
Business (preferred finance and/or technical field
Proficient
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Pittsburgh, PA 15205, USA