Senior Direct Sourcing Specialist - Procurement

Job Description

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact?

The Senior Direct Sourcing Specialist will play a key role in supporting sourcing strategy development, execution, contract negotiations, and management of assigned spend. Through collaboration with cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other key colleagues; this individual will execute sourcing initiatives to deliver cost savings, enhance supplier performance, and improve overall supply chain efficiency. By closely collaborating with cross-functional teams, it will gain a deep understanding of business requirements, identify potential suppliers, negotiate contracts, and ensure timely delivery of goods and services.

What will you do?

• Lead the execution of sourcing activities to support category strategy implementation for medium- to high-degree complexity initiatives.
• Liaise with internal customers and category owners to ensure supplier program operations meet expectations.
• Perform cost and scenario analysis and benchmarking for strategic transactions.
• Craft negotiation strategies and close deals with optimal terms for assigned sourcing initiatives.
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure requirements are clearly gathered, documented, and translated to RFX and contracts as appropriate.
• Research potential vendors and develop RFX for sourcing initiatives assigned.
• Negotiate contract terms of agreement and pricing, delivering and recording annual P&L savings.
• Track and report key functional metrics for the Procurement Center of Excellence and the category.
• Build and maintain positive relationships with internal and external team members. Collaborate with other teams to achieve common goals and ensure effective cross-functional communication.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior sourcing specialists on category-specific requirements and sourcing in general.

Education

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in engineering, business administration, operations, or supply chain management.
• Master’s degree in business administration or engineering. (Nice to have).
• At least 8 years of work experience in direct sourcing, preferably in mechanics and/or electronics.
• High level of English language proficiency (verbal and written).

Experience

• Excellent category-specific sourcing and category management skills in key spend portfolios in Direct (mechanical and/or electronics).
• Expert understanding of multi-step strategic sourcing processes and strategies.
• Sourcing expert with strong experience with sourcing processes, supplier management, and contract negotiations.
• Experience leading technical projects in a matrixed environment.
• Project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, key results, case development).
• Excellent communication proficiencies for structuring ideas clearly and concisely with technical and functional partners at various levels of the organization.
• Influential business leader with a proven record in establishing relationships across functions.
• Strong customer service orientation and attention to detail aligned with high standards of quality and excellence.
• Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results.

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.

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.