Manager, Procurement Sourcing

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact?

The Manager, Site Procurement leads the site Procurement team and is responsible for ensuring reliable supply, strong supplier performance, competitive cost, and appropriate inventory levels to support manufacturing operations.

This role provides leadership across purchasing, supplier management, cost savings, inventory optimization, and supply-risk mitigation while partnering closely with Planning, Manufacturing, Quality, Engineering, Finance, and other site functions.

What will you do?

People Leadership & Organizational Performance

• Lead, coach, and develop the site Procurement team to achieve operational, financial, and business objectives.
• Establish clear priorities, performance expectations, and accountability across purchasing execution and Procurement KPIs.
• Manage employee performance, development, goal setting, and succession planning.
• Build a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and proactive problem-solving.

Purchasing & Supply Continuity

• Provide overall leadership for purchasing activities supporting site manufacturing operations.
• Ensure materials and services are available to support production and customer requirements.
• Lead escalation and resolution of critical material shortages, supplier constraints, and supply disruptions.
• Partner with Supply Chain and Operations to align purchasing activities with production requirements, forecasts, and inventory objectives.
• Identify supply risks and establish appropriate mitigation and contingency plans.

Supplier Performance & Cost Management

• Manage supplier performance across delivery, quality, cost, responsiveness, and supply continuity.
• Develop strong relationships with key suppliers and lead resolution of significant supplier performance issues.
• Drive cost savings, productivity, supplier negotiations, and inflation-mitigation opportunities.
• Monitor and manage applicable Procurement financial metrics, including savings, purchase price variance, and inventory.
• Partner with Quality and Engineering on supplier quality issues, supplier changes, corrective actions, and material-related projects.

Inventory, Projects & Continuous Improvement

• Partner cross-functionally to optimize inventory and working capital while maintaining reliable supply.
• Lead and support sourcing, secondary-sourcing, supplier-transfer, cost-reduction, and supply-continuity projects.
• Identify opportunities to improve Procurement processes, supplier performance, purchasing execution, and inventory management.

How will you get here?

Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, or a technical field required.
• Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in Procurement, Purchasing, Sourcing, or Supply Chain.
• Experience supporting Procurement or Supply Chain activities within a manufacturing environment required.
• Experience with ERP/MRP systems and material-planning concepts required.
• Previous people-leadership experience strongly preferred.
• Professional certification such as APICS/CSCP, CPSM, PMP, or Lean/Six Sigma preferred.
• Experience in life sciences or another regulated manufacturing environment preferred.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and develop teams while driving accountability for results.
• Strong knowledge of purchasing, supplier management, negotiation, inventory management, and supply-risk management.
• Strong business and financial acumen with an understanding of cost, savings, inventory, and working capital.
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex supplier, supply, quality, and commercial issues.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, project-management, and continuous-improvement skills.
• Ability to influence and build effective partnerships across a matrixed organization.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with suppliers and senior leadership.
• Ability to prioritize competing demands and operate effectively in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Benefits

We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits! Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. …