Procurement Manager – Packaging
Thermo Fisher Scientific
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Morrisville • North Carolina • Pennsylvania • United States
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About the role
- Join our team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, where you'll implement strategic procurement initiatives that make a meaningful impact on global healthcare, research, and environmental protection.
- Develop complex category strategies and collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize supply chain performance, reduce costs, and ensure continuous improvement.
- Leverage your expertise to develop and execute effective sourcing solutions while building strong supplier relationships that advance our mission of making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer.
- Leads global category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk.
- 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.
- Analyze category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals.
- Actively participates in supplier business reviews with suppliers to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards.
- Handles strategic contracts across suppliers, products and services within category.
- Facilitates free-flow of spend intelligence and analysis to internal business leaders in order to enhance their decision making.
- Drives negotiations 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.
- Establishes category plans and priorities globally and ensures alignment with divisional business priorities.
- Conduct Packaging Savings Kaizen and Ideation programs with cross-functional business teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, or technical field or equivalent combination of experience and education.
- Minimum of 7 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience
- 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 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
- Ability to travel 25%
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible work hours
- Paid time off
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
procurementsourcingcategory strategysupply chain performancesupplier performance analysisnegotiationcontract managementcontinuous improvementmarket intelligencedata analysis
Soft skills
collaborationconsultative styleinfluence without authoritycross-functional teamworkcommunicationleadershipproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingrelationship buildingdecision making
Certifications
CPSM