Buyer / Procurement Specialist

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Marietta, OH

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Buyer / Procurement Specialist supports LED site procurement by managing tactical purchasing activity while also helping drive Marietta’s MCP, cost-reduction, supplier strategy, and procurement project pipeline. This is a hybrid tactical and project-focused procurement role. The role supports day-to-day PO management, supplier follow-up, material availability, and open-order execution, but also carries added responsibility for MCP tracking, buyer-led savings actions, cost validation, data requests, and cross-functional project follow-up. This role supports Category, IEC, Engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, Procurement Enablement, and site leadership, but does not own division-level category strategy or sourcing direction.

Requirements

• Associate degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Engineering, Finance, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Experience in purchasing, procurement, sourcing, materials, supplier management, manufacturing support, or project support.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems, supplier communication, purchase order management, and procurement reporting.
• Ability to manage multiple suppliers, projects, part numbers, priorities, and follow-up actions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
• Strong communication, organization, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong tactical execution and follow-through.
• Ownership of assigned suppliers, materials, open orders, projects, and savings actions.
• Ability to connect supplier activity to cost, inventory, production, and savings impact.
• Strong analytical capability with cost, supplier, PO, quote, and inventory data.
• Ability to challenge supplier pricing and commitments with facts, options, and next steps.
• Clear communication with buyers, suppliers, Category, Engineering, Finance, Supply Chain, production teams, and site leadership.
• Balanced focus on material availability, cost savings, inventory control, supplier accountability, and working capital discipline.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Operations, Engineering, Finance, or related field.
• Experience in site procurement, MCP, cost savings, supplier negotiations, VAVE, NPI, supplier recovery, or supplier transition activity.
• Experience validating supplier pricing, standard cost, PO data, quote data, and savings calculations.
• Familiarity with shortage management, open-order management, inventory control, and production support.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, procurement reporting tools, and project/action tracking.

Responsibilities

• Create, manage, and maintain purchase orders in alignment with MRP demand, supplier lead times, and production needs.
• Monitor open orders for accurate dates, quantities, confirmations, supplier commitments, and recovery timing.
• Follow up with suppliers on shortages, late orders, expedites, unconfirmed orders, pull-ins, push-outs, cancellations, and recovery plans.
• Validate supplier ship dates, quantities, and commitments where production, NPI, bridge plans, or recovery actions depend on material timing.
• Communicate material risks, recovery timing, and escalation needs to planning, production, procurement leadership, and cross-functional partners.
• Resolve routine PO, invoice, pricing, receiving, quantity, and delivery discrepancies.
• Support raw material reviews, part availability / PFEP work, and inventory actions.
• Support Marietta MCP delivery by identifying, validating, tracking, and executing cost-reduction opportunities.
• Partner with buyers to maintain a strong MCP pipeline, including savings ideas, supplier negotiations, alternate sourcing, VAVE support, supplier transitions, consolidation opportunities, and cost avoidance actions.
• Lead or support buyer-led supplier negotiations, including price challenges, quote validation, annual price reviews, payment term opportunities, and supplier cost movement review.
• Maintain MCP trackers, action logs, project updates, savings documentation, and escalation summaries.
• Validate supplier pricing, standard cost, PO pricing, quote data, and category-provided savings assumptions.
• Support Category and Procurement Enablement requests, including Wayfinder validation, supplier data validation, cost verification, RFQ support, and sourcing project inputs.
• Coordinate with Category, IEC, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Supply Chain to move MCP and supplier actions from idea to execution.
• Support VAVE, NPI, product transfer, supplier transition, and material change activity by coordinating quotes, lead times, samples, documentation, pricing, and implementation timing.
• Assist with supplier strategy opportunities, including supplier consolidation, dual sourcing, LCR sourcing, lead-time reduction, and supplier performance improvement.
• Support E&O prevention, lifecycle cleanup, tariff / COO / HTS / USMCA work, Russian steel sanctions, SMELT, and other supplier compliance follow-up as needed.

Benefits

• Thermo Fisher Scientific is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion.
• Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.
• Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them.
• Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
• Please contact us to request accommodation.
• Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree