Manager, Procurement

3 weeks ago


Pittsburgh, United States Thermo Fisher Scientific Full time
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

Hybrid - 4 Days in Office; 1 Days Remote

Monday - Friday - Hours: 8 - 5

Candidates must be located near one of the following Thermo Fisher Scientific sites:
US - Pittsburgh, PA - 300 Industry Drive
US - Houston, TX - 11450 Compaq Center Dr West, Ste 570
US - Morrisville, NC - 3900 Paramount Parkway

*Relocation Assistance is available.

The Manager, Procurement - Packaging, typically owns category management for level 3 categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a Category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Builds organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, lead strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.

Scale of Responsibilities:
  • Acts as the key category collaborator with 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
  • Uses financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to advise 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, risk assessment and business continuity
  • Leverages AQSCIR method to develops 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 partners
  • Handles the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
  • Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
  • Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and leverages 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:
  • Under the direction of Director drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures on going cross team collaboration
  • Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
  • Works with Division Business Partners and functional partners to gather business requirements for category strategy development
  • Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal partners and reporting of sourcing impact
  • Leads a Global Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend 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
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business, Finance, and/or technical field
  • 4 years of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, experience in the assigned category.
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Experience leading and procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
  • Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities - influence without authority
  • Proven track record to lead cross-functional teams in a sophisticated organization
  • Strong negotiation and presentation skills
  • Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
  • Strong project management skills
  • Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
  • Must be able to work across all functions and levels of an organization
  • International experience (plus) - working experience in different countries/regions/languages

Benefits:
We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus, healthcare, and a range of employee benefits. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.
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