Work Schedule
Standard Office Hours (40/wk)
Environmental Conditions
Office
Job Description
Business Title: Regional Procurement Manager- EMS
How will you make an impact?
The Regional Procurement Manager – EMS, drives the execution of complex category strategies encompassing multiple sites to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, negotiates contracts, supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and manages preferred supplier relationships
Scale of Responsibilities
- Leads regional category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk
- Participates in the development and leads the execution of a 3 to 5-year regional sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with preferred suppliers that meet key business needs and category management goals
Technical Responsibilities
- 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 regional agreements aligned with category strategy
Leadership Responsibilities
- 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 regionally and ensures alignment with divisional business priorities
- Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal partners and reporting of sourcing impact
Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills
- Bachelor’s degree in business or technical field. Master’s Degree is preferred
- Minimum 7 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing country / regional / global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, experience in the assigned category
- Minimum 3+ years’ experience of proven experience in managing EMS suppliers
- Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
- Strong negotiation and presentation skills
- Strong knowledge 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
Benefits:
We offer competitive 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.”
