Sr Staff Engineer, Manufacturing Engineering

at  Thermo Fisher Scientific

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job Description: Sr. Project Controls Manager (Planner)
As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND ABILITIES

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or equivalent combination of experience and education. Master’s Degree preferred
• Minimum of 10 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience
• Minimum 2 years in a people leadership role
• Knows how to assess market/business requirements dynamics and negotiate to yield meaningful business value
• Experience working in highly regulated industries

SCALE OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for strategy input and implementation for complex and strategic categories
• Delivers key category performance indicators, including savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint schedule innovation, portfolio performance, etc.
• Develops multiyear site CAPEX strategies focused on identifying and contracting with selected projects that meet key business category management goals

TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Applies structured Category Management process to provide recommendations into category strategies
• Analyzes portfolio intelligence to identify key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements. Competent in projects controls segmentation to optimally focus risk mitigation.
• Engages and supports division/site procurement teams to qualify key risk & migrate spend from incumbent, poor performance suppliers
• Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals
• Leads vendor-based business reviews to drive strategic priorities as well as supervise key performance indicators

LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITIES

• Influences multi-functional colleagues to ensure category strategies and activities are aligned to goals and priorities. Influence without authority
• Works with external supply partners and leads multi-functional internal teams to advance key business drivers such as supply continuity, quality, cost and operational performance
• Selectively develop supplier strategic partnerships. Secures capacity with suppliers
• Collaborates with Procurement Enablement team to develop predictive analytics