Procurement Category Manager Brno

Procurement Category Manager

**About Thermo Fisher Scientific**:
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 **Category Manager Detection Solutions** is the global leader responsible for deploying and driving the Procurement category vision with key colleagues. You will be driving category strategy definition, execution, and implementation. This position will facilitate the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimize quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost. The role will mitigate risk, use technology, improve processes and systems, and reduce the overall cost of ownership and acquisition.
**What will you do?**
- Develop the sourcing strategy of detection solution products and services considering price, volume, share and profitability. Ensure product portfolio addresses market needs and continuous improvements where needed to maintain and/or improve market penetration and share position.
- Conduct voice of the customer activities, assess market trends and competition offerings to develop and implement proactive strategies to strengthen the product line’s business advantage.
- Define promotional focus areas and sourcing strategy to increase revenue and margin including product pricing with commercial teams.
- Lead the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
- Synthesize conclusions from R&D and product management to communicate key findings to other key partners and drive action. Evaluate assigned products for obsolescence and communicate recommendations for efficient product management.
- Build a successful work environment that accelerates individual performance by promoting trust, learning, and fun! Champion diversity and inclusion driving the attraction and growth of top talent and leverage the existing culture to drive a sense of belonging.
**How will you get here?**
- Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
- Minimum 7 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, minimum 7 years’ experience in the assigned category
- Minimum 3 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 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
- Must be able to work across all functions and levels of an organization
- International experience (plus) - working experience in different countries/regions/languages
**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.”
**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.

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