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Procurement Manager – Lab OEM

Thermo Fisher Scientific • Full-time • Morrisville, North Carolina, United States • 3d ago

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

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. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

Description

The Procurement Manager – Lab OEM, drives the execution of complex category strategies and OEM supplier lifecycle management encompassing multiple sites to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develop sourcing strategies, negotiate contracts, and manage strategic OEM supplier relationships.

Scale of Responsibilities

Leads global OEM supplier initiatives to deliver key performance indicators including: savings, supplier rationalization, risk mitigation, and performance improvement
Leads global category initiatives to deliver year over year savings, supplier rationalization, and low-cost region sourcing.
Participates in the development and execution of 3 to 5-year global sourcing and OEM supplier strategies aligned to business priorities.
Analyzes cross-divisional Lab OEM spend and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership and improve value realization.
Acts as the key procurement interface with relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of supplier strategies, performance, and financial targets.
Owns end-to-end OEM supplier lifecycle management including supplier onboarding during NPIs (New Product Introductions and ongoing supplier management.
Perform other duties and tasks as assigned.

Technical Responsibilities

Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing and OEM supplier strategies.
Monitors market intelligence and key OEM supplier trends, assessing impact to the business and refining strategies.
Partners with Business functions (operations, quality, etc.) to drive supplier performance management across quality, delivery, cost, and service metrics
Actively leads supplier business reviews with strategic OEM suppliers to ensure performance, innovation, and contractual compliance.
Facilitates Make vs OEM analysis to support strategic sourcing and investment decisions
Drives value engineering (VA/VE) initiatives with OEM partners to deliver productivity savings
Drives contract & commercial negotiations across OEM suppliers aligned with category strategies
Supports product and market access expansion through OEM partnerships and exclusivity agreements
Manages the supplier qualification process for new OEMs including supplier identification, competitive bidding via RFP, and supplier selection.
Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers

Leadership Responsibilities

Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to align category and OEM supplier strategies with business priorities.
Partners with Division Business Partners and functional partners to gather business requirements for strategy development.
Establishes relevant category plans and priorities globally and ensures alignment with divisional business priorities
Influences stakeholders across procurement, operations, and engineering to drive OEM value realization
Establishes communication mechanisms for OEM supplier performance tracking and reporting.

Education, Experience, Knowledge and Skills

Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s Degree is preferred
Minimum of 6 years procurement/sourcing experience with strong category/business engagement experience
Experience managing strategic supplier relationships or OEM partnerships preferred
Strong business acumen and ability to drive total value beyond cost savings
Experience working in highly regulated industries preferred
Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results
Demonstrated consultative/collaborative style in performing sourcing activities
Influences without authority to motivate a cross-functional team
Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred
Ability to travel up to 25%

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