Sr Manager, Procurement Mechanical Raw/Fab Category

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Asheville, NC

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About The Position

The Sr Manager, Procurement Mechanical Raw/Fab Category owns category management for level 2 global categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a Category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Builds organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
• Minimum 10 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, demonstrated ability in the assigned category
• 3+ years experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
• Strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
• Strong project management skills
• Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
• Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization

Nice To Haves

• International experience – working experience in different countries/regions/languages

Responsibilities

• Connects key categories to relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
• Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
• Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
• Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels
• Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy
• Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
• Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability and risk assessment and business continuity
• Uses AQSCIR (Assurance, Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, Regulatory) method to develop and drive 3 to 5 year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
• Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues
• Runs the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
• Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
• Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business
• Drives supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers

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: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees