**Job Title: Buyer II**

As part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work and have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make meaningful contributions to the world. 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.

**Location/Division Specific Information**

The role will be based at our Fair Lawn, NJ site.

**Position Summary**:
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Assurance of Supply - right products, right time, in the right place
- Maintain Procurement Master Data in respective ERP system
- Conduct collaborative meetings with key suppliers to discuss metrics and forecast
- Supplier Management (Scorecard Review)
- Raw Material Inventory Health shared responsibility with raw material planners (Turns, DOS, E&O, SS and Consignment)
- Contract compliance
- Resolve supply disruptions as raised by Materials Planning
- Resolve AP issues
- PO execution and maintenance
- Supports the development and implementation of procurement processes, standard work and tools
- Maintain master data - lead-time, pricing, MOQ’s (lead), safety stock (min/max)
- Lead all NPI activities in collaboration with R&D and Planning to ensure successful supplier launch (need to define NPD process)
- Point of escalation for supplier issues specific to commercial, quality
- Leverage Procurement Excellence dashboard for input to QBRs and other report outs
- Work with Supplier Quality on supplier related quality issues
- Adopt and demonstrate the Procurement Toolbox

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in business or engineering preferred.
- Minimum 2 years business experience in a Procurement / Sourcing / Engineering role.
- Advanced skills in Excel.
- Experience in MRP / ERP systems.
- Possess a basic technical understanding of how to interpret drawings /specifications.
- Experienced in supplier consolidation and product transfer initiatives.

**Preferred Qualifications**:

- CPIM or CSCP certification preferred
- Project management experience
- Global procurement experience
- Experienced in leading contract manufacturers

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 global 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.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

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