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Sr Director Global Professional Services & Strategies
Sr Director Global Professional Services & StrategiesThermo Fisher • Washington, DC, US
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Sr Director Global Professional Services & Strategies

Sr Director Global Professional Services & Strategies

Thermo Fisher • Washington, DC, US
6 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Sr Director, Procurement Global Professional Services & Enterprise Strategies

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 worlds 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? In the role you will lead category management for multiple enterprise-wide global categories encompassing multiple functions and groups with complex requirements. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional / business objectives and work closely with corporate functions leaders, group and divisions presidents, divisions business partners, R&D, and business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Builds organizational strength, creates robust sourcing strategies, negotiates agreements, manages strategic supplier relationships, and drives continuous improvement year over year savings.

Scale Of Responsibilities

  • Connects key categories with all levels within Thermo Fisher business, divisions and corporate functions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets with the internal and external partners
  • Accountable for the multi-year cluster / category strategies and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
  • Analyzes 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
  • Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year-over-year total cost of ownership for the services and resources being sourced without compromising innovation, quality and service levels
  • Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow and inflation to inform strategy

Key Responsibilities

  • 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
  • Applies 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 leads 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
  • 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
  • Leadership Responsibilities

  • Leads the Global Sourcing Professional Services Team
  • Develop staff to build expertise in both the areas of spending and in strategic sourcing processes.
  • Mentor staff and develop team and training programs that addresses areas of improvement.
  • Drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration.
  • Champions use of e-Sourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide
  • Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development
  • Creates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
  • Leads a Global Category Team to create expertise in both the areas of spending and in strategic sourcing processes
  • Mentors and develop staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
  • Implement talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results
  • Qualifications

  • 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

    We offer driven 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 an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation."

    EEO / Reasonable Accommodation

    Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO / Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

    We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

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