Sr Manager, NPI, Quality and Analytics Chemical Analysis Division

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Tewksbury, MA

13d • $130,000 - $194,950

About The Position

Join Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. as a Sr Manager, NPI, Quality, and Analytics in our Chemical Analysis Division! This role offers an outstanding opportunity to lead a coordinated function that ensures supplier readiness for New Product Introductions (NPI). You'll improve supplier quality and capabilities, delivering data-supported decisions that drive procurement and product delivery. This is your chance to work on world-class projects and make a significant impact!

Responsibilities

• Build and lead PMO practices to control NPI and supplier programs, including stage-gate processes, portfolio planning, change control, RAG reporting, and executive briefings.
• Enable rapid decision-making across Procurement, Engineering, Quality, Operations, Finance, and Legal by removing blockers and raising risks effectively.
• Recruit, mentor, and develop a strong, matrixed team of supplier quality engineers, procurement/NPI leads, and data analysts.
• Own budgets for supplier development and PMO programs, track return on investment, and report realized savings/cost avoidance.
• Lead procurement and supplier-quality aspects of complex NPIs, including sourcing strategy, long-lead management, BOM cost-to-target, supplier qualification (PPAP/FAI), and launch-readiness sign-off.
• Define and enforce NPI gate criteria, including supplier capability, contractual terms, quality controls, and capacity confirmation.
• Drive supplier early-engagement for prototypes/pilots, coordinate first-article approvals, tooling transfers, and qualification timelines.
• Partner with Engineering to lead design-to-cost initiatives and supplier co-development to shorten qualification time and reduce launch cost.
• Lead the qualification and re-qualification of suppliers, assess their capabilities, and carry out on-site audits; direct CAPA governance and confirm verification through to closure.
• Develop and coordinate supplier improvement initiatives (SPCI / Lean / Kaizen), co-investment approaches, and technical actions that decrease defects, improve process capability (SPC, MSA), and reduce TCO.
• Implement supplier performance management, including scorecards, essential metrics (PPM, OTIF, CAPA closure time), protocols for addressing critical issues, and incentive structures.
• Build and manage supplier risk mitigation programs, including dual-sourcing, nearshoring/kitting pilots, tariff mitigation, obsolescence planning, and contingency stock.
• Establish and govern a canonical analytics capability for procurement and NPI, including spend & savings pipeline, TCO models, supplier risk scoring, and launch-readiness dashboards.
• Lead advanced analytics initiatives (forecasting, scenario planning, anomaly detection, root-cause analytics) that directly inform sourcing and supplier development decisions.
• Translate complex analytics into concise, committed recommendations for category teams and senior leaders; ensure executive-ready reporting and adoption.
• Own data quality, lineage, and governance for procurement/NPI datasets; partner with IT/Finance to ensure reliable, automated data pipelines.

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 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: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees