Procurement / Sourcing Specialist - Indirect

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Grand Island, NY

12d

About The Position

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! Become a part of a team of 130,000 colleagues dedicated to embodying our Mission daily, encouraging a healthier, cleaner, and safer world for our customers. 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 Indirect Procurement/Sourcing Specialist will assess, generate, and deliver key business processes, procurement categories, market, financial, and group/divisional level insights to drive incremental procurement value across the corporation. This role involves working closely with the indirect procurement category teams and divisional business partners in developing and implementing data-driven indirect value capture initiatives. This position will act as a collaborative ally with Category Teams, the Global Procurement Organization, the Center of Excellence, and other enterprise leaders to provide valuable perspectives and resolutions centered on suppliers, contracts, expenditures, efficiency improvements, and projections.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field, or equivalent combination of experience and education
• Minimum 3-5 years of procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies. Category or business engagement experience preferred
• Strong business sense – experience evaluating and assessing procurement/business data to identify value capture opportunities
• Proficient data analytics abilities – familiarity with analyzing intricate procurement data to pinpoint essential procurement insights
• Experience managing multiple programs and projects simultaneously with various collaborators
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an understanding of influencing through collaboration, partnership, and teamwork

Nice To Haves

• Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries preferred

Responsibilities

• Manage and implement the indirect savings tracking process for assigned categories in partnership with the divisional finances team to ensure recognition of sourcing value.
• Lead the identification, coordination, and automation of key procurement insights to drive incremental indirect value on all procurement and sourcing programs.
• Engage in forward-looking thinking to build insights on key performance indicators and trends to identify future potential based on spend, savings, and market-related data
• Manage multiple projects and priorities
• Collaborate effectively across a matrix environment, build strong partnerships, good interpersonal, communication & negotiation skills

Benefits

• We offer competitive remuneration, an 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 provide an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.”
• 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 paid time off (PTO), 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
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees