Senior Director, Procurement EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services)

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

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Office

Job Description

Position: Senior Director, Procurement EMS (Electronic Manufacturing Services)

Reports To:  VP, Procurement

Location:   Morrisville, NC

COMPANY INFORMATION

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 100,000 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.

POSITION SUMMARY 

The Senior Director, Procurement will lead category management for Electronic Manufacturing Services and High Level Assemblies, encompassing multiple sites, divisions and groups with complex requirements. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, 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.

Key Responsibilities:

Scale

• Connects key categories with all levels within Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets
• Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals
• Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develop global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units without compromising quality and service levels
• Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels
• Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy

Technical

• 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
• Utilizes 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

Leadership

• Drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration.
• Champions use of eSourcing, 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 spend and in strategic sourcing processes
• Mentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement
• Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree required; 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, minimum 10 years’ experience