Procurement Specialist III

About Thermo Fisher Scientific:

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 ProcurementSpecialist III, 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.

What will you do?

Scale of Responsibilities

• Executes 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

• Manages 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

Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required:

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

• Minimum of 5 years procurement/sourcing experience in a highly regulated industry, with strong category/business engagement experience

• Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industry is preferred

• Strong business acumen – knows how to assess market/business requirements dynamics and negotiate agreements that yield meaningful business value

• 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

• Ability to travel 25 to 50%

Monthly salary from 2,625 EUR to 3,937.50 EUR before taxes plus additional benefits package.