Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Job Title: Sr Procurement/Sourcing Specialist
Band 7
Job Code: OPS.PROC.P07
Join Thermo Fisher Scientific to make a global impact through meaningful work with 130,000 colleagues.
How will you make an impact?
Program management within the procurement team, driving key initiatives across a global network of divisions, groups, functions and categories to ensure successful program delivery. Lead project planning, development, management and budgeting. Directs on-time, quality delivery of work products; leads implementation economics, risks and communications.
What will you do?
Scale of Responsibilities
- Defines the program structure, the plan with key milestones; facilitates agreement of proposed solutions from functional, business unit and site leadership, site operations, and other key partners
- Leads multiple projects at a time with well-documented and organized skills to support enterprise and functional objectives
- Implements effective communication plans and delivers presentations to propose key initiatives, provide critical implementation updates, operational line-of-sight, and demonstrate delivery of value within the organization
- Identifies and develops mitigations for key risks and analyzes the impact of those risks on the project and through scenario planning
- Performs analysis to identify value, through financial analysis, define implementation plans and resources required to achieve results
- Reports and provides insights on projects, pipeline (with Group/Category), and AOP financial targets, including adoption of a standard tool and processes
- Coordinates data inputs across the function to enable key reporting insights
- Uses business partner inputs and knowledge of existing systems and constraints to develop standard reporting requirements and drive process improvements
Technical Responsibilities
- Applies consistent project management approaches and processes, identifies and reports roadblocks and variances to project plans, ensures projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives
- Tracks and monitors timely completion of project achievements within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report progress
- Leads project governance, including regular cadence of PMO sessions (schedule, prepare for, run and drive follow-ups for key meetings)
- Leads overall project plans, schedules, budgets, resources, timelines
- Detects and facilitates issue resolution and/or appropriate actions and addresses program risk
- Maintains document repository and file structure as well as access rights; owns cataloging and leading version control on key documents
- Uses PPI business systems and processes to drive continuous improvement
Leadership Responsibilities
- Leads global, cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to achieve desired outcomes
- Identifies and documents resource constraints
- Influences key partners to achieve outcomes on time and within plan, develops relationships within the company to complete assigned projects
- Facilitates breakthrough thinking by integrating diverse views while participating in targeted content analysis sessions to enable problem solving
- Collaborates with Procurement Enablement on reporting cadences to aim to a single source of truth for the savings pipeline and inflation
How will you get here?
- Bachelors and/or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Engineering, or Science. MBA desirable
- Certification in Project Management is desirable
- Six years experience in global programs and project initiatives, preferably in Procurement
- Life Sciences, BioTech, or Pharma industry preferred
- Experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Category Management preferred
- Process improvement background (PPI, Lean, Six Sigma, etc) preferred
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Robust project management skills and capabilities (Gantt charts, dashboards, and budget financials and baseline development)
- Outstanding analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills
- Excellent skills for structuring ideas in a clear and concise manner and presenting to Senior Leadership
- Strong proficiency in MS-Office tools (specifically, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to efficiently prioritize forums and coordinate communication with team members
- Ability to work independently, within a team, and across teams
- Ability to lead matrix project teams of peers and other partners across multiple sites and platforms in a virtual office environment
- Multi-tasking skills and planning for prioritizing personal workload
- Ability to travel between 10-30% on an annual basis
Benefits
We offer remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer a company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.
EEO/Reasonable Accommodation
We accommodate individuals with disabilities for application, interview, job functions, and employment benefits.
Top Skills
What We Do
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of approximately $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
Why Work With Us
You will join a company which every colleague has the opportunity to create possibilities, for oneself, for our customers and patients. There is no more exciting place to be than at the forefront of solving problems which help improve lives around the world. As a company, we are committed to supporting your career aspirations and your journey.
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