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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.
Excellent Benefits Package
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Medical, Dental, & Vision benefits-effective Day 1
Paid Time Off & Holidays
401K Company Match up to 6%
Tuition Reimbursement – eligible after 90 days!
Employee Referral Bonus
Employee Discount Program
Recognition Program
Charitable Gift Matching
Company Paid Parental Leave
Career Advancement Opportunities
The Sr Procurement Manager – Packaging , drives the execution of complex global category strategies necessary to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates and leads a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, negotiates contracts, supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and manages selected supplier relationships.
Scale of Responsibilities
Responsible for strategy input and implementation for complex and strategic categories
Delivers key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc
Develops multi year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with selected suppliers that meet key business category management goals
Technical Responsibilities
Applies structured Category Management process to provide input into category strategies
Analyzes market intelligence to identify key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements. Competent in category and supplier segmentation to effectively focus on key suppliers
Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other colleagues to qualify key suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, poor performance suppliers
Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals
Leads supplier based business reviews with selected suppliers to drive strategic priorities as well as manage key performance indicators
Represents and drives key initiatives with suppliers including Diversity, Sustainability and Risk Assessment
Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy
Organize and facilitate VAVE Packaging material cost out opportunities at the Division and Site level.
Leadership Responsibilities
Influences cross-functional colleagues(quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure category strategies and activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities. Influence without authority
Ensures category strategies and priorities are aligned with divisional business priorities
Works with external supply partners and leads cross-functional internal teams to advance key business drivers such as supply continuity, quality, cost and operational performance
Selectively may work to develop supplier strategic partnerships. Secures capacity with suppliers (e.g. tool/asset management)
Collaborates with Procurement Enablement team to develop predictive analytics
Acts as a coach/mentor to colleagues on category strategy process
Education/Experince
Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field. Master’s Degree is preferred
Minimum of 10 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience
Minimum 2 years in a people leadership role preferred
Business insight – knows how to assess market/business requirements dynamics and negotiate agreements that yield meaningful business value
Experience working in highly regulated industries
Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results
Demonstrated consultative/collaborative style in performing sourcing activities
Influences without authority to motivate and manage a cross-functional team in multiple geographies.
CPSM or equivalent is preferred
Hands-on manufacturing and/or supply chain experience is preferred
Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred
Experience in secondary, tertiary, and protective packaging preferred
Ability to travel 25 to 50%
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