Manager, Procurement - Toronto, Canada - Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific
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Toronto, Canada

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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.

This is an onsite position, 4 days per week at one of the below locations:

  • Waltham, MA
  • Morrisville, NC
  • Cincinnati, OH
  • Greenville, NC
  • High Point, NC
  • Florence, SC
  • Whitby, Canada
  • Toronto, Canada

How will you make an impact?


The
Procurement Manager - Drugs and Pharma Products, typically owns category management for level 3 categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions, and groups.

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.

Builds organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, lead strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.


Scale of Responsibilities

  • Acts as the key category interface with relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
  • Accountable for the multiyear category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
  • Analyzes crossdivisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
  • 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
  • Leverages financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs, and inflation to inform strategy

Technical Responsibilities

  • Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies
  • Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability, risk assessment and business continuity
  • Leverages AQSCIR method to develops and drive 3to5year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals
  • Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise partners
  • Manages the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented
  • Manages the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
  • Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and leverages 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, nonpreferred suppliers

Leadership Responsibilities

  • Under the direction of Procurement Director, Drugs and Pharma drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration
  • Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools companywide
  • Works with Division Business Partners and functional partners to gather business requirements for category strategy development
  • Build and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal partners and reporting of sourcing impact
  • Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
How will you get here?

Education

  • Bachelor's Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
Experience

Minimum 7 years' of procurement/sourcing experience with growing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, experience in the assigned category

  • Minimum 3 years experience leading and 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 crossfunctional teams in a complex organization
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

  • Strong negotiation and presentation skills
  • Solid understanding of the strategic sourcing and category management process
  • Strong project management skills
  • Requires ability to take care of ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
  • Must be able to work across all functions and levels of an organization
  • International experience (plus) wor
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