Thermo Fisher Scientific · 23 hours ago
Sr Category Manager - Marketing and Sales
Morrisville, NC
Contract
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
10+ years expThermo Fisher Scientific is an innovative organization seeking a Sr Category Manager to oversee category management for global categories. The role involves developing sourcing strategies, managing supplier relationships, and ensuring alignment with business objectives across multiple divisions.
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Responsibilities
Connects key categories to relevant 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 develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units
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
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
Uses 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 lead 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
Typically works under the direction of a Sr Director or Director, 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
Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact
Leads a Global/Regional Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed 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
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree required
Minimum 10 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
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
Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
Preferred
Graduate Degree in Business
International experience - working experience in different countries/regions/languages
Benefits
Competitive remuneration
Annual incentive plan bonus scheme
Healthcare
Company pension
A range of employee benefits
Company
Thermo Fisher Scientific
The world leader in serving science To serve science, Thermo Fisher Scientific needs to stay ahead of it, we need to anticipate customer needs.
10001+ employees
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