Sourcing Specialist Refrigeration Components

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Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover impactful work, innovative thinking and a culture dedicated to working the right way, for the right reasons - with the customer always top of mind. The work we do matters, like helping customers find cures for cancer, protecting the environment, and delivering COVID-19 solutions.

How you will make an impact:

The Procurement/Sourcing Specialist - Refrigeration components leads the supplier management processes to meet company objectives. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of project management, technical, quality, finance and other key colleagues to sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, contracts, supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and leads preferred supplier relationships.

Day in the Life:

• Support the development and Execution of 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

• Support in Saving Projects initiation and execution

• Cultivate the use of Esourcing and Eauctions within the category.
• Support and/or Lead category strategy development for the refrigeration components category
• 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 and/or Lead supplier business reviews with suppliers to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards and continuous improvement goals
• Drives discussions for global agreements aligned with category strategy
• 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

How will you get here?

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field required.

Experience:

• Minimum of 5 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience.
• Hands-on experience in the Refrigeration components industry is preferred.
• Experience working in highly regulated industries

Skills and Abilities:

• Shown consultative/collaborative style in performing sourcing activities
• Influences without authority to motivate and lead a cross-functional team in multiple geographies.
• CPSM is preferred
• Hands-on manufacturing and/or supply chain experience is preferred
• Experience in life sciences, medical device, Laboratory products or pharmaceutical industries is preferred
• Ability to travel 0 - 25%

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