Sr Manager, Procurement Mechanical Raw/Fab Category
- Asheville, NC
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Connects key categories to relevant 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 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
- Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy
- 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
- 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
- Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues
- Runs the contracting process and lead 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
- The role involves working under the direction of a Sr Director or Director, driving adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise, and ensuring 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
- Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
- Leads a Global/Regional Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed 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
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
- Minimum 10 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, demonstrated ability in the assigned category
- 3+ 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