Procurement/Sourcing Specialist III

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Adherence to all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Safety Standards, Office

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

This position is responsible for procuring direct and indirect materials and services necessary for production and operations, as well as driving strategic projects aimed at delivering savings for the Greenville, NC site.

The Procurement/Sourcing Specialist III will be required to identify risk, reduce cost, and implement sources of material and services to minimize financial and operational risk to the business. The purpose is to balance the objectives of maximum product availability with strategic inventory plans.

This position participates in negotiations and projects to implement proactive procurement philosophies, strategies, policies, and procedures for successful integration into multiple business plans across various departments. A history of strong project management and relationship building skills are critical to this position.

Location: Greenville, NC - 5900 Martin Luther King Jr. Highway

Responsibilities: The Procurement/Sourcing Specialist III must support the local procurement team in the following activities:

• Maintain continuous direct and indirect material and services availability and minimize inventory with an emphasis on indirect suppliers and services to include Procure to Pay activities to include strategic and tactical functions including indirect vendor and material creation, purchase orders, delivery, inventory monitoring and invoice payments issues.

• Negotiate availability and cost of direct and indirect materials and services from external suppliers. Solicit quotations for materials and services, analyze bids for specification compliance, pricing, delivery commitments, and evaluate the sources to ensure they can provide a secure supply chain model.

• Manage cost savings projects and work with cross-functional teams to drive cost savings to completion.

• Manage indirect supplier relationships, at all times monitoring supplier performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and seeking new innovative solutions and products to cement supply chain flexibility.

• Support supplier risk mitigation activities by working on highlighting risk to the organization and implementing long term and short-term strategies to avoid revenue risk to the company.

• Participate in purchasing performance metrics, reporting and improvement opportunities.

• Support continuous improvement and operational excellence processes.

• This position may be required to complete special projects and perform other related duties as required and/or assigned.

• Provide manager support as the need arises.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Science, Business, Production, or a related field is highly preferred.

• Minimum 7+ years of purchasing/supply chain experience in related field within a manufacturing / pharmaceutical environment.

• Experience in sourcing of new materials and services to mitigate supply chain risk. Additional experience in planning, manufacturing, quality, or engineering fields desired.

• Demonstrated negotiating experience and results required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities:

• SAP and Ariba working knowledge are essential.

• Computer proficiency required in Outlook, Powerpoint, and Word.

• Above average Excel capabilities required.

• MRP knowledge and ERP experience in a manufacturing environment.

• Knowledge of procurement processes and strategic supplier management required.

• Ability to manage project execution of cost saving, sourcing and inventory management programs.

• Operational Environment knowledge desired.

• Ability to anticipate needs and problems while creating solutions.

• Demonstrate a sense of urgency, contagious optimism and a “can do” attitude.

• Curious, inquisitive, innovative, never satisfied with the status quo and not afraid to challenge where required.

• Greet challenge and change as an opportunity.

• Courage and confidence to take risks and learn from mistakes.

• Authentic, open and leads by example, holding self and others accountable.

• Collaborative with others.

• Stretch across borders, break silos and build effective partnerships with internal customers and colleagues.

• Working Conditions: Works in an office environment. Minimal travel required.