Manager, Purchasing

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 130,000 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 Manager, Procurement has overall responsibility for all direct purchasing activities ensuring uninterrupted global supply of direct materials and services including raw materials, packaging materials, and OEM finished goods and services. This position’s primary objective is to lead a team of procurement professionals responsible for acquiring inbound materials and services on time and complete, from approved global and regional suppliers, at competitive costs, as required to support the operations and improve the organization’s profitability. Ultimately the Manager, Procurement needs to balance the objectives of maximum product availability with strategic inventory plans while driving productivity.

**What will you do?**
- Management of the transactional purchasing team which handle the daily orders, expediting and internal customer service of all raw materials consumed in manufacturing.
- Performance management and development of the Purchasing team, including coaching, employee reviews, compensation, KPI management, and delivering to results.
- Effectively lead, develop, and enable the Purchasing Organization to achieve strategic objectives.
- Implement inventory control programs including Pay at Consumption and Just-In-Time to achieve cash flow objectives without compromising material availability.
- Coordinate formalized risk mitigation programs to reduce vulnerability of supply chain interruptions.
- Develop effective supplier management relationships focused on availability, quality & cost.
- Drive global projects aligning business processes and tools across multiple sites.
- Act as a liaison between employees, internal support areas, and other departments.
- Present procurement strategies, processes, and policies to internal and external customers.
- Understand regulatory & market requirements and their impacts on the supply chain.
- Proficient and effective implementation of organizational change.
- Maintain a positive result oriented demeanor that promotes teamwork with peers, subordinates, commercial, operations, other support functions, and suppliers while driving significant change.
- Stay abreast of industry Best Practices, current / future policies and procedures, regulatory / trade requirements, and market dynamics appropriate to function.
- Optimize utilization of ERP/MRP in an MTO & MTS environment
- Achieve financial goals of the Procurement and Operations organizations.
- Lead and/or participate on continuous process improvement teams.

**How will you get here?**

**Education**
- BS in business, engineering, supply chain management, or technical oriented field required.
- Master’s degree preferred.
- APICS, CPSM or equivalent certification preferred.

**Experience**
- Five years experience with increased responsibility and complexity in Purchasing or Sourcing required.
- Experience with ERP systems
- 3-5 years of people management experience preferred.
- 3-5 years of program or project management and/or process improvement experience preferred.

**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**

Results Driven:

- An accountable leader that has experience in exceeding the business KPIs and fiscal requirements routinely.
- A leader that is constantly testing the metrics and re-tensioning to ensure the team is evolving to a new improved standard.
- A Leader with a proven track record of achieving stretch goals, holding self and teams accountable.

People Leadership:

- Experienced transformational leader. Demonstrated strong people leadership skills
- Experience must include demonstrated team development, building a great team and great culture.
- This person must attract, engage, develop, and retain top talent at all levels, including creating culture of ownership and collaboration with other functions.
- Inspires, influences, and empowers employees across the matrix (both direct and indirect teams) to overachieve objectives.
- Ability to empower teams to develop impactful short and long-term strategies and action plans.

Influential Strategic Partner in a matrix environment:

- The Manager, Procurement will be a strategic leader who has input and influence in the direction of the site.
- As a member of the site’s operations leadership team it is crucial the individual is an active participant ensuring their perspective is heard and provides regular input. Anticipates and balances multiple partners.

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