Senior Manager, Procurement - Lab Supplies | - C-038

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 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.

How will you make an impact? The Senior Manager, Procurement - Lab Supplies owns category management for global categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions, and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and works closely with Division Procurement 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.

What will you do?

1. Connects key categories to relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets.
2. Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals.
3. Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units.
4. 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.
5. Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs, and inflation to inform strategy.
6. Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies.
7. Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability, and risk assessment and business continuity.
8. Uses 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.
9. Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues.
10. Runs the contracting process and leads coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented.
11. Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process.
12. Assesses market intelligence for key trends and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business.