Senior Procurement Manager – Category Leader Mro & Industrial Gases

**Work Schedule** Standard (Mon-Fri) **Environmental Conditions** Office **Job Description** ROLE IS AVAILABLE IN FOLLOWING THERMO FISHER LOCATIONS: \-Morrisville, NC \-Pittsburgh, PA \-Lagunilla, Costa Rica The **Sr Procurement Manager – MRO & Industrial Gases**, drives the execution of complex global category strategies necessary to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend across the North Americas Sites. The job will influence about $80M in spend. Collaborates and leads a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies and handles supplier relationships. **Scale of Responsibilities** ----------------------------- * Responsible for strategy input and implementation for complex and strategic categories * Delivers key category performance indicators, including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk management, spend under agreement, joint innovation, supplier performance, etc * Develops multi year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying suppliers that meet key business category management goals **Technical Responsibilities** ------------------------------ * Uses structured Category Management process to provide input into category strategies * Analyzes market intelligence to identify key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements. Competent in category and supplier segmentation to effectively focus on key suppliers * Engages and supports division/site procurement teams to qualify key suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, poor performance suppliers * Analyzes category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals * Leads supplier based business reviews with selected suppliers to drive strategic priorities as well as handle key performance indicators * Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy **Leadership Responsibilities** ------------------------------- * Influences cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure category strategies and activities are aligned with divisional business priorities * Works with external supply partners and leads cross-functional internal teams to advance key business drivers such as supply continuity, quality, cost and operational performance * Selectively may work to develop supplier strategic partnerships. Secures capacity with suppliers (e.g. tool/asset management) * Collaborates with Procurement Enablement team to develop predictive analytics * Acts as a coach/mentor to colleagues on category strategy process **Education, Experience and Abilities** * Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field or equivalent combination of experience and education. Master’s Degree is preferred * Minimum of 10 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience * MRO experience is a must * Experience working in highly regulated industries * Experience in a continuous improvement environment with a track record of achieving significant year over year results * Demonstrated consultative, collaborative and influencing style in performing sourcing activities * Experience in life sciences, medical devices, or pharmaceutical industries is preferred