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Division Procurement Partner - Team Thermo Fisher Scientific Eindhoven
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Summary
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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale.
Join their colleagues in bringing their Mission to life every single day to enable their customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. They provide their 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.
How will you make an impact?
This position requires a person that has a consistent track record of being able to work in a complex and constantly evolving environment, is used to work with a large scope of responsibilities and can set priorities. Ideally has a background in Sourcing, Supply Chain and/or Project Management roles, preferably in a High-Tech Systems environment with high diversity and low volumes.
What will you do?
Division Procurement & Strategic Sourcing:
- Manage and improve key global supplier relations focused on Quality, Logistics, Cost and Innovation
- Support division P&L by engaging with critical stakeholders with regard to supply resilience, procure-to-pay efficiency, category alignment, and executing CoGS targets.
- Draft, negotiate, implement and maintain global agreements with assigned suppliers.
- Prepare and execute negotiations on terms & conditions for assigned suppliers.
- Manage escalations regarding delivery, quality and overall performance issues.
- Develop and deliver on CoGS reduction initiatives.
- Generate actionable supply market knowledge (outside-in view) for assigned (sub) category.
- Ensure supply continuity by screening & assessing suppliers.
- Run risk management program with assigned suppliers, incl. RCCMs when needed.
- Support and contribute to global procurement strategy of Thermo Fisher Scientific's Materials & Structural Analysis division ("MSD").
- Build and actively maintains relationships with sourcing colleagues in other MSD sites as well as other departments (R&D, Operations, Quality, Finance and Legal), which include setting up and leading Supplier Account Teams.
Sourcing Project Leader:
- Act as Sourcing Project Leader ("SPL") for NPI project teams to secure supply chain decisions that are in line with the sourcing (sub-category) strategy
- Assure timely procurement contribution to PMP milestone gates (cost control, risk, and supply continuity)
- Ensure that PMP deliverables are met, and deviations/risks are identified, and addressed with Analytical Instruments Group ("AIG") category teams
- Maintain a supply chain map incl. tooling/testing requirements throughout a project
- Cooperate with FP&A and R&D project leader to establish a CoGS monitor in place and updated
- Ensures risk buys are executed by site operations purchasing team
- Initiate ramp-up planning with supplier
- Contribute to value chain optimization
- Ensure alignment and synergies across Thermo Fisher divisions where possible
Thermo Fisher helps our their customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. With $1.4 billion invested annually in R&D, their collaborative and diverse teams have the resources they need to drive new discoveries and do cutting-edge research and develop important applications and tools that help millions of lives around the world.
You will be employed by YER and seconded to Thermo Fisher for the first year. We offer:
- Good employee benefits
- Challenging assignments
- Excellent guidance from your consultant and YER's back office
- Development opportunities, including the YER Talent Development Programme with a personal coach
- Intensive support for international candidates (including Dutch lessons, tax-return and accommodation assistance)
- Cooperative and results and relationship-driven
- Friendly atmosphere and open culture
- Community/network with other technology professionals from a variety of multinationals
- Events and master classes with interesting speakers and attractive companies
Education
Bachelor’s Degree required (preferably in Mechanics/Electronics/Business/Industrial Engineering, or Supply Chain Management).
Experience
10 years of experience (at least 5 years in the field of purchasing and with innovation NPI process).
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Preferably trained in specialized Sourcing/Purchasing/Procurement skills
- Analytical / systematic, practical approach
- Good communication skills (reporting, interpersonal)
- Excellent English language skills (verbal and in writing)
- Self-propelling
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The steps to a successful match
Application
If you respond to an appealing job opening, the consultant will contact you to schedule an exploratory meeting in the next few days.
Analysis
Together with the consultant, you determine whether your profile is a good fit for the position. You also assess whether your ambitions are aligned with the direction of the organi…
Initial interview
If the fit is right on both sides, there will be a first-round interview with your potential new employer in the next two weeks.
Follow-up interview(s)
Depending on the process, the consultant will invite you to the next round(s) of interviews and possibly an assessment center.
Offer
If you are selected for the position, you will receive an attractive job offer. We will be happy to advise you on realistic terms of employment.
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