Senior Specialist Sourcing managing indirect materials sourcing for a global manufacturing leader in India. Overseeing logistics, supplier audits, and demand planning for operational efficiency.
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Hybrid Senior Category Manager – Marketing and Sales
Posted 2 months ago
About the role
- Sr Category Manager leading strategic sourcing and supplier management at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Collaborating cross-functionally to align category strategies with business objectives and financial targets.
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 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
- Uses AQSCIR method to develop and drive 3 to 5 year global sourcing strategies
- Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues
- Runs the contracting process and leads coordination with Legal to ensure proper documentation
- 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
- Drives supplier consolidation through engagement with Division Business Partners
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
- Minimum 10 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility 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
- 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 make decisions based on potentially incomplete information
- Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization
- International experience (plus) – working experience in different countries/regions/languages
Benefits
- competitive remuneration
- annual incentive plan bonus scheme
- healthcare
- company pension
- range of employee benefits
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