Hybrid Senior Category Manager – Marketing and Sales

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About the role

  • 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

Job title

Senior Category Manager – Marketing and Sales

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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