Sourcing Manager / Division Procurement Partner Brno

Sourcing Manager / Division Procurement Partner

**Work Schedule**
Standard (Mon-Fri)
**Environmental Conditions**
Office
**When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. And you’ll have the opportunity for continual growth and learning in a culture that empowers your development. With revenues of more than $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.**:
**How will you make an impact**:
**The Procurement Partner** collaborates closely with the BEA site cross functional teams and contributes to the development of multi-year strategies and business plans for the BEA Division and drives the execution of the Procurement vision with key colleagues in the division. The individual is a key partner to the divisional operations leader with a focus on strategy, execution, and implementation. Facilitates the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimize quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost. Mitigates risk, uses technology, improves processes and systems, and reduces overall cost of ownership and acquisition.
**Scale of Responsibilities**:
- Establishes and implements short and long-term goals, strategic plans, policies, and procedures for the Division aligned with Group and the divisional leadership team.
- Translates Divisional business and Procurement objectives and targets to Category management teams and monitors category management contributions to these targets.
- Delivers on key objectives (Annual Operating Plan - AOP), delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement. Owns and drives the cost savings targets for the site, working closely with the Category teams.
- Coordinates long range strategies with the business partners across the Division and implements plans.
- Drives resolution to supplier delivery critical issues and negotiates price increases.
- Partners with Category Managers, R&D, Engineering to deliver annual value improvements including New Product Introductions, Engineering Changes Requests (ECRs), and First Article Inspections (FAIs).
- Provides input to make or buy and footprint decisions, supplier selection and supplier management for product innovation projects and vendor transitions, monitors the execution, and communicates results to senior leaders.
- Ensures alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division to coordinate business projects (e.g. productivity, M&A, NPI).
- Serves as the point of contact and ensure the implementation of Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Management
**Technical Responsibilities**:
- Collects supplier (technical) capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier scouting.
- Gathers Division business requirements and assures compliance to regulatory requirements.
- Drives and tracks compliance for indirect materials, as well as link with Global team for policies and procedures.
- Uses ‘scouting approach’ to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process, monitor product pipeline (LCM), support product platforming.
- Serves as escalation point of contact for Procurement within the Division.
- Consolidates, analyzes, and reports on divisional procurement metrics for business reviews.
**Leadership Responsibilities**:
- Aligns the Procurement strategy with the Divisional Leadership team
- Ensures procurement value contribution to business and supports Division initiatives
- Manages division input to category strategies (Global, Group specific)
- Engages with supplier leadership to support the Category team and Division in achieving Thermo Fisher objectives related to quality, cost, innovation, growth, and compliance.
- Support the development and implementation of common processes, standardized work, use of tools and technologies.
**Education & Experience**:
- A bachelor’s degree in supply chain/Materials Management, Business Logistics or a related area or equivalent; MBA preferred
- 8+ years of procurement/sourcing experience
**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**:
- High level of proficiency with core Procurement skills (engineering, sourcing)
- Strong influencing skills with ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of colleagues
- Significant business knowledge and proven team building skills
- Demonstrated flexibility and willingness to respond to changes in the external environment
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with ability to confidently present complex information
- Results oriented, metrics driven leader with a root cause, permanent fix approach, continuous improvement approach
- Demonstrated understanding of operations
- Strong analytical skills and process focus
- Ability to communicate effectively to empower global constituents to meet business objectives, and possess strong present

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