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Job Description
Position : Senior Director, Procurement EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services)
Reports To: VP, Procurement
Location: Morrisville, NC
COMPANY INFORMATION
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 100,000 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.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Senior Director, Procurement will lead category management for Electronic Manufacturing Services and High Level Assemblies, encompassing multiple sites, divisions and groups with complex requirements. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a Category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Builds organizational strength, creates robust sourcing strategies, negotiates agreements, manages strategic supplier relationships, and drives continuous improvement year over year savings.
Key Responsibilities:
Scale
Connects key categories with all levels within Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develop global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units without compromising quality and service levels
Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels
Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy
Technical
Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability and risk assessment and business continuity
Utilizes AQSCIR (Assurance, Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, Regulatory) method to develop and drive 3 to 5-year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues
Runs the contracting process and leads coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business
Drives supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations (e.g. sourcing engineers) to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
Leadership
Drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration.
Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
Creates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
Leads a Global Category Team to create expertise in both the areas of spend and in strategic sourcing processes
Mentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
Minimum 15 years of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, minimum 10 years' experience in the assigned category
7+ years' experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities - influence without authority
Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
Strong negotiation and presentation skills
Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
Strong project management skills
Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
International experience (plus) - working experience in different countries/regions/languages
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.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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.
