Sr Manager, Procurement

Job Description

Location/Division Specific Information:

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.

The Sr Manager, Procurement is supporting the Biosciences Division. It reports directly to the Sr Director, Procurement Partner and will be based at our Carlsbad, CA site.

How will you make an impact?

The Sr. Manager, Procurement has overall responsibility for all direct purchasing activities for the Carlsbad & Eugene sites ensuring uninterrupted global supply of direct materials and services including raw materials, and OEM finished goods and services. This position’s primary objective is to lead and develop a team of procurement professionals responsible for the acquisition of inbound materials and services on time, from approved global and regional suppliers, at the right costs, as required to support the operations and improve the organization’s profitability. Ultimately the Sr. Manager, Procurement needs to balance the objectives of maximum product availability with strategic inventory plans while driving savings.

The successful candidate will also need to ensure that the category strategy is aligned with the site objectives and works closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are implemented at the site and business unit level.

The Sr. Manager, Procurement will also act as the single point of contact (SPOC) for Procurement for the Cell Biology Business Unit. In this capacity, the Sr. Manager, Procurement will ensure that Business and Procurement strategies are aligned, create & present productivity initiatives, and ensure supply across the Business Unit.

What will you do?

• Management of the procurement operations team responsible for PO creation/placement/management and internal customer service required for all raw materials consumed in manufacturing.
• Individual contributor performance management and development: coaching, motivating, performing employee reviews, resolving compensation, critical metric management, goal setting, and getting results.
• Lead formalized risk mitigation programs to reduce vulnerability of supply chain interruptions.
• Drive effective supplier management relationships focused on quality, supply assurance, and cost.
• Evaluate and select suppliers based on Total Cost of Ownership models.
• Present procurement strategies, processes, and policies to internal and external customers.
• Maintain a positive demeanor that promotes teamwork with peers, subordinates, commercial, operations, other support functions, and suppliers while driving significant change.
• Stay abreast of industry standard processes, current & future policies and procedures, regulatory & trade requirements, and market dynamics appropriate to function.
• Achieve financial goals for the organization.
• Lead and/or participate on continuous process improvement teams.
• Serve as a site Operations Leadership team member.
• Accountable for the multi-year procurement site execution objectives, timelines, and goals
• Analyzes site spending and develops sourcing plans to improve the bottom line for the site in conjunction with the corporate categories
• Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year costs of good sold without compromising quality and service level
• Represent Procurement in Business Unit Leadership meetings and report critical Procurement metrics
• Create & present productivity initiatives to Business Unit Leadership

How will you get here?

Education

• BS in business, engineering, supply chain management, or technical oriented field required. Master’s degree preferred.
• APICS, CPSM or equivalent certification a plus.

Experience

• Minimum of 7-10+ years of experience with increased responsibility and complexity in Purchasing, Sourcing, Planning, Supply Chain.
• Experience with ERP systems
• Prior people management experience preferred
• Prior program or project management and/or formal process improvement experience preferred.
• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Results Driven: An accountable leader that has experience in exceeding the business critical metrics and fiscal requirements routinely. A leader that is constantly testing the metrics and re-tensioning to ensure the team is evolving to a new improved standard. A Leader with a consistent track record of achieving stretch goals, holding self and teams accountable.
• People Leadership: Experienced ground-breaking leader. Proven strong people skills that create a culture of ownership throughout the organization. Experience must include demonstrated team development, building a phenomenal team and great culture. This person must attract, engage, develop, and retain top talent at all levels, including collaboration with other functions. Inspires, influences, and empowers employees across the matrix (both direct and indirect teams) to overachieve objectives.
• Drives Strategic Vision & Purpose: Plan and prioritize work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Problem Solver: Proven ability to apply critical thinking and data analytics to root cause complex issues and identify potential solutions.
• Technical knowledge of Life Sciences manufacturing preferred
• High degree of comfort using the Microsoft Suite and reporting tools preferred
• Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
• Strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one global team of 90,000 colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve complex scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

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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.”

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

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Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in California is $117,000.00–$175,500.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs

• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement

• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy

• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan

• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards