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Hybrid Senior Director, Global Professional Services – Strategies
Posted 4 months ago
About the role
- Director of Procurement leading enterprise-wide sourcing strategies for Thermo Fisher Scientific. Manage category teams to achieve global procurement goals in a complex organizational environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead category management for multiple enterprise-wide global categories encompassing multiple functions and groups with complex requirements.
- Ensure that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Corporate Functions Leaders, Group and Divisions Presidents, Division Business Partners, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally.
- Build organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.
- Analyze cross-groups/divisional spending and develop global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units and functions without compromising quality and service levels.
- Lead the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process.
- Drive supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations (e.g. sourcing engineers).
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required or equivalent combination of experience and education; 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, proven experience in the assigned category
- 5+ 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 track record to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
- Strong negotiation and presentation skills
- Strong understanding 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
Benefits
- driven remuneration
- annual incentive plan bonus scheme
- healthcare
- company pension
- range of employee benefits
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