Hybrid Procurement Manager – Packaging

at Thermo Fisher Scientific

• Job title: Procurement Manager – Packaging
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Morrisville, United States

About the role

• Procurement Manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific implementing strategic initiatives for global healthcare. Collaborating with teams to optimize performance, reduce costs and ensure improvement.

Responsibilities

• 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