Procurement Specialist III

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Greenville, NC

355d

About The Position

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. 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.

Requirements

• Minimum High School Diploma
• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Materials Management or Business preferred
• Minimum of 5 years of purchasing/procurement or supply chain experience in a manufacturing or pharmaceutical environment.
• High level of proficiency with SAP skills.
• Significant business insight and shown team building skills.
• Confirmed flexibility to respond to changes in the external environment.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to authoritatively present sophisticated information.
• Strong analytical skills and process focus.
• Strong leadership, interpersonal skills, and unquestioned integrity and trust.
• Support continuous improvement and operational excellence processes.
• Participate in purchasing performance metrics, reporting and improvement opportunities.
• Manage supplier relationships, looking for new innovative solutions and products to cement supply chain flexibility.

Responsibilities

• Aid customers with new material set-up in SAP and ensure SAP data records are accurate and up to date.
• Collaborate with colleagues in Operations and Quality to support vendor issues, partner concerns, and resolution of issues.
• Update Material Master in SAP with lead time and price changes.
• Support Corporate Purchasing requests for specifications, drawings, forecasts, historical spend.
• Prepares data and analyzes cost trends, external and internal key performance metrics, and proposing process improvement and the generation or management of key reports, metrics, and projects.
• Collects supplier (technical) capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier sourcing opportunities.
• Support the improvement and implementation of common processes, standardized work, use of tools and technologies.
• Delivers on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement.
• Partners with Category Managers, Business Partners, Engineering to deliver annual value improvements and drives competitive advantage.
• Engages with supplier leadership to support Thermo Fisher objectives related to sustainability, quality, cost, innovation, growth and compliance.

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration
• Annual incentive plan bonus scheme
• Healthcare
• Company pension
• A range of employee benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees