Director, Supply Chain

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Madison, WI

6d • $164,500 - $230,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Director will lead the Chemical Analysis Division global supply chain organization, delivering reliable customer fulfillment, disciplined working-capital performance, and scalable growth. The role sets direction for end-to-end planning and execution across the division, connecting demand, supply, capacity, inventory, order management, and network decisions. It builds the processes, data, capabilities, and cross-functional accountability needed to turn supply-chain insight into measurable business outcomes.

The Director will translate business strategy into an integrated supply-chain roadmap; lead integrated planning and execution, including SIOP and S&OE; improve customer fulfillment and order management; optimize inventory, cash, and supply risk; and build a high-performing, digitally capable team. The role works closely with commercial, operations, finance, procurement, product management, customer service, IT, quality, and global functions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, business, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Substantial progressive experience in supply chain, operations, or integrated business planning, including leadership responsibility in a complex, multi-site environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading demand and supply planning, SIOP or equivalent processes, inventory strategy, order fulfillment, and cross-functional execution.
• Experience translating business objectives into operational plans, measurable outcomes, and clear executive-level recommendations.
• Ability to lead teams through change, build partnerships across organizational boundaries, and influence without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and people-leadership skills.

Nice To Haves

• Graduate degree or relevant professional certification in supply chain, planning, or operations.
• Experience with ERP, advanced planning, business intelligence, and workflow automation tools; experience implementing planning technology is an advantage.
• Experience in a global manufacturing, instrumentation, life science, or other regulated product environment.
• Working knowledge of continuous-improvement methods such as PPI, Lean, A3, and root-cause corrective action.

Responsibilities

• Translate the Chemical Analysis Division business strategy into an integrated supply-chain roadmap, operating priorities, and resource choices, balancing customer service, revenue, cost, cash, resilience, and risk.
• Build strong partnerships with commercial, operations, finance, procurement, product management, customer service, IT, quality, and global functions.
• Own and continually improve CAD Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE), linking mid- and long-range plans to near-term commitments and recovery actions.
• Advance demand planning, forecast segmentation, scenario planning, capacity modeling, and supply planning across sites and product families, ensuring plans reflect constraints, lead times, and customer priorities.
• Lead planning-system and data-readiness initiatives, including adoption of digital planning capabilities, to improve decision quality and operating consistency.
• Lead end-to-end order-management and backlog processes to improve lead-time performance, promise-date accuracy, order visibility, and delivery reliability.
• Partner with sites and customer-facing teams to identify supply risks early and drive mitigation plans for shortages, holds, capacity constraints, and demand changes.
• Use structured performance reviews and root-cause problem solving to improve on-time delivery, order fill, service-parts availability, and customer communication.
• Develop an integrated inventory strategy that segments products and materials by demand, service needs, supply risk, and lifecycle stage, and establishes appropriate stocking and positioning policies.
• Balance working capital, days of supply, excess and obsolete exposure, and customer-service requirements; connect inventory decisions to SIOP, capacity, sourcing, and service outcomes.
• Lead inventory governance, entitlement and safety-stock reviews, excess and obsolete prevention and disposition, inventory balancing, and financial forecasting with Finance and operations.
• Lead, develop, and retain the supply-chain team; clarify roles, build succession and functional depth, and align talent and capacity to the division roadmap.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment rooted in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s 4i Values, setting clear expectations and encouraging ownership, learning, and constructive challenge.
• Embed PPI, Lean, and structured problem solving into daily work; use automation, analytics, and AI where appropriate to remove waste and improve planning and execution.

Benefits

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs.
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement.
• At least 120 hours of paid time off (PTO) and 10 paid holidays annually.
• Paid parental leave: 3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave.
• Accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy.
• Competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan.
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP), offering eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount.
• May be eligible for a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director