Purchasing Manager role at Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. involves driving Division Procurement success through flawless execution and world-class collaboration. Key responsibilities include:
* Establishing and implementing short and long-term goals, strategic plans, policies, and procedures aligned with Group and leadership team.
* Translating Divisional business and Procurement objectives to Category management teams and monitoring category management contributions.
* Delivering on key objectives, including delivery, quality, service, cost, innovation, and growth commitments for Division Procurement.
* Coordinating long-range strategies with business partners across the Division and implementing plans.
* Partnering with Category Managers, R&D, and Engineering to deliver annual value improvements and drive competitive advantage.
* Coordinating business projects, such as M&A integration.
* Providing input for make or buy decisions, supplier selection, management of suppliers for product innovation projects, and vendor transitions.
* Ensuring alignment with business colleagues within the Group and Division on projects.
* Serving as the main contact for Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk, and Supplier Management.
* Collecting supplier capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier scouting.
* Gathering Division business requirements and assuring compliance to regulatory requirements.
* Driving and tracking compliance for indirect materials, as well as linking with Distributed team for procedures.
* Using a 'scouting approach' to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process, monitoring product pipeline (LCM), supporting product platforming.
* Serving as a critical issue point of contact for Procurement within the Division.
* Consolidating, analyzing, and reporting on divisional procurement metrics for business reviews.
* Aligning the Procurement strategy with the Divisional Leadership team.
* Ensuring procurement value contribution to business and supporting Division initiatives.
* Running division input to category strategies (Group specific).
* Engaging with supplier leadership to support the CM team and Division in achieving Thermo Fisher objectives related to quality, cost, innovation, growth, and compliance.
* Supporting the implementation of common processes, standardizing work, using tools, and technologies.