Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

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.

Location/Division Specific Information

Position reports to the Morrisville, NC and will support the Corporate Global Business Services (GBS) Division.

Discover Impactful Work:

The Procurement Specialist III – Biochemicals and Biolgocials, manages and continuously improves the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other key colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, negotiates contracts, supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and manages preferred supplier relationships.

A Day in the Life:

Scale of Responsibilities

Completes global category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc.

Supports the execution of global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with preferred suppliers that meet key business needs and category management goals.

Technical Responsibilities

Monitors market intelligence and key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements.

Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers.

Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals.

Supports supplier business reviews with suppliers to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards and continuous improvement goals.

Leads the impact of cost and risk when developing contracts.

Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy.

Leadership Responsibilities

Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure all category sourcing activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities.

Keys to Success: Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field preferred. Master’s Degree is highly preferred.

High school diploma or equivalent required.

CPSM or equivalent is preferred

Experience

3-5 years procurement/sourcing experience in a highly regulated company required.

Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

Business insight – knows how to assess market/business requirements dynamics and negotiate agreements that yield meaningful business value

Demonstrated consultative/collaborative style in performing sourcing activities

Influences without authority to motivate and manage a cross-functional team in multiple geographies.

Hands-on manufacturing and/or supply chain experience is preferred

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

Benefits:

We offer competitive remuneration, 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 offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.”