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Business Title: Procurement Partner

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When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact?

The Procurement Partner role contributes to the development of multi-year strategies and business plans for Division and drives the execution of the Procurement vision with key colleagues in the division. The individual is a key partner to the divisional operations leader with a focus on strategy, execution, and implementation. Facilitates the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimize quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost. Mitigates risk, uses technology, improves processes and systems, and reduces overall cost of ownership and acquisition.

• Implements short and long-term goals, strategic plans, policies and procedures for the Division aligned with Group and the divisional leadership team
• Translates Divisional business and Procurement objectives and targets to Category management teams and measure category management contributions to these targets.
• Delivers on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement
• Partners with Category Managers, R&D, Engineering to deliver annual value improvements and drives competitive advantage
• Coordinates business projects (e.g. M&A integration)
• Provides input to make or buy and footprint decisions, supplier selection and supplier management for product innovation projects and vendor transitions, measure the execution and communicates results to senior leaders.
• Ensures alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division on projects
• Serves as the point of contact and ensure the implementation of Enterprise Processes

• Collects supplier (technical) capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier scouting.
• Handles divisional procurement savings portfolio
• Gathers Division business requirements and assures compliance to regulatory requirements
• Uses ‘scouting approach’ to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process, monitor product pipeline (LCM), support product platforming
• Consolidates, analyzes and reports on divisional procurement metrics for business reviews

• Ensures procurement value contribution to business and supports Division initiatives
• Handles division input to category strategies (Global, Group specific)
• Engages with supplier leadership to support the CM team and Division in achieving Thermo Fisher objectives related to quality, cost, innovation, growth and compliance
• Support the development and implementation of common processes, standardized work, use of tools and technologies

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

• 8+ years of procurement/sourcing management experience
• Confirmed experience in ESI, NPI processes with third parties and outsourced development management
• Dynamically responsible career path in manufacturing operations and procurement with significant practical experience in international settings
• Strong procurement and sourcing background. Procurement of Clinical Packaging, logistics and clinical trials experience preferred

• High level of proficiency with core Procurement skills (engineering, sourcing)
• Strong influencing skills with ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of colleagues
• Significant business knowledge and validated team building skills
• Proven flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to expertly present sophisticated information at different levels of the organization.
• Results oriented, metrics driven leader with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach
• Proven understanding of operations
• Strong analytical skills and process focus
• Strong Project Management experience
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and unquestioned integrity and trust

We offer driven remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, 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.”

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.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.