Sr Supply Chain Specialist

Thermo Fisher Scientific•Logan, UT

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, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer. How will you make an impact? As a member of the Bioproduction supply chain productivity & projects team, you will evaluate, prioritize business initiatives and related master data requirements, developing projects to improve the quality and management of business-critical data. Through multi-functional partnerships, you will install data governance mechanisms for assigned business units in the Bioproduction group. You will drive productivity and enhance our master data by implementing improvement projects. You will collaborate with functional leaders to define, prioritize & resource projects through participation in a data management council. You will assess health of current data through data quality assessments and identify data needs for prioritized projects. You will engage with global domain authorities to resolve data challenges. You will implement improvement initiatives using project management principles to deliver projects on time. You will communicate progress to leadership through status reporting and remove barriers to execution that might be encountered. What will you do? Your remit will span the range of data from order intake to order fulfillment. Partner with master data & business unit leadership to prioritize & resource data projects aligned with key business priorities. Independently lead multifunctional, high impact projects. Drive project scope, resourcing and project plans with clear ownership and due dates. Coordinate project team members, meetings & actions. Collaborate with data owners on data gathering, analysis, socialization of solutions and publication of data standards. Encourage functional data stewardship. Partner with support teams including data analytics, data management and data governance to apply their expertise in BPG, driving consistency of practices. Create performance indicators measuring impact of projects. Communicate challenges, work with leadership to eliminate obstacles. Coordinate updates of business processes & I/T system data. Collaborate with process owners to transfer outcomes to standard business process. Ensure training occurs with new practices. Coordinate BPG data standard repository using tools including data catalogs and Microsoft Sharepoint.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/Mfg Engineering, Supply Chain Management or, equivalent experience.
3-5+ years of relevant supply chain, materials management, or master data experience.
Knowledge/experience using data driven systems across the order fulfillment continuum. Examples of systems include Product Life Cycle, Supply Chain, ERP/MRP and planning tools.
Able to identify data requirements to enable strategy & achievement of goals & objectives.
Demonstrate understanding of use of data driven processes & systems.
Understand system integration, impact on internal & external processes.
Able to lead multiple projects across people, sites & systems.
Able to break down problems and projects into manageable goals.
Ability to connect with a diverse group including executives, managers, and end-users.
Skilled in problem solving, teamwork and facilitation.
Highly effective verbal and written communication skills.
Effective time management and prioritization skills.
Lead change.
Respect diverse opinions while encouraging consensus.
Influence across the organization.
Be an effective communicator.
Form a broad network building links across functions and levels of the organization.

Nice To Haves

Project management, process improvement training preferred.

Responsibilities

Evaluate, prioritize business initiatives and related master data requirements
Develop projects to improve the quality and management of business-critical data
Install data governance mechanisms for assigned business units in the Bioproduction group
Drive productivity and enhance our master data by implementing improvement projects
Collaborate with functional leaders to define, prioritize & resource projects through participation in a data management council
Assess health of current data through data quality assessments and identify data needs for prioritized projects
Engage with global domain authorities to resolve data challenges
Implement improvement initiatives using project management principles to deliver projects on time
Communicate progress to leadership through status reporting and remove barriers to execution that might be encountered
Partner with master data & business unit leadership to prioritize & resource data projects aligned with key business priorities
Independently lead multifunctional, high impact projects
Drive project scope, resourcing and project plans with clear ownership and due dates
Coordinate project team members, meetings & actions
Collaborate with data owners on data gathering, analysis, socialization of solutions and publication of data standards
Encourage functional data stewardship
Partner with support teams including data analytics, data management and data governance to apply their expertise in BPG, driving consistency of practices
Create performance indicators measuring impact of projects
Communicate challenges, work with leadership to eliminate obstacles
Coordinate updates of business processes & I/T system data
Collaborate with process owners to transfer outcomes to standard business process
Ensure training occurs with new practices
Coordinate BPG data standard repository using tools including data catalogs and Microsoft Sharepoint