Leader, Sourcing

5 months ago


Scoresby, Australia Thermo Fisher Scientific Full time

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 125,000 outstanding minds has a unique story to tell. Join us in enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do important work. Surrounded by collaborative colleagues, you’ll have the support and opportunities that only a global leader can give you. Our respected, growing organization has an outstanding strategy for the near term and beyond. Take your place on our strong team, and help us make significant contributions to the world.

**How will you make an impact?**

The** Leader, Sourcing and Supplier Management ANZ** leads vital category strategies encompassing multiple third party suppliers, as well as Procurement capability building to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend, customer experience and also reduce risk. You will collaborate with a terrific team of product managers, operations, quality, regulatory, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, negotiate contracts, lead preferred supplier relationships and mitigate risk. You will also be the process owner for P2P as we improve our approach and the tools we use. If you enjoy a challenge, and want the opportunity to make a real difference to the people around you, this role has all of that potential. This role will have a direct report of 1, reporting into this role.

**What will you do?**

**Scale of Responsibilities**
- Leads category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators including: new product introductions, savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, business risk
- Leads the development and execution of a 3 year global sourcing strategy, identifying and contracting with preferred suppliers that meet key business needs and category management goals
- Champions the Procure to Pay process, leading improvements across the ANZ business to enable a smooth and streamlined experience for our colleagues, and our customers
- Supports the wider ANZ business as local lead on ESG (Environment, Social and Governance), collaborating with other dedicated people in the business to ensure emerging local customer requirements are well run and in line with ANZ’s strategic ambitions.

**Technical Responsibilities**
- Analyze category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals
- Facilitates free-flow of spend intelligence and analysis to internal business leaders in order to improve decision making
- Actively leads and participates in supplier business reviews to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards and continuous improvement
- Takes charge of strategic contracts across suppliers, products and services within category
- Coordinates external intelligence, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements
- Engages and supports key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & where needed, to migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
- Finds and implements new opportunities though insight, influence and commercial resourcefulness

**Leadership Responsibilities**
- Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc.) to ensure all category sourcing activities are aligned to a common set of goals and priorities
- Establishes category plans and priorities globally and ensures alignment with divisional business priorities

**How will you get here?**
- Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field. Master’s Degree is preferred
- Minimum of 7 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies, with strong category/business engagement experience
- Business insight - knows how to assess market/business requirements dynamics and negotiate agreements that yield meaningful business value
- Experience working in regulated industries
- 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 empower and manage a cross-functional team in multiple geographies.
- CPSM or equivalent is preferred
- Hands-on supply chain experience is essential
- Experience in life sciences, medical device, or pharmaceutical distribution industries is preferred

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.


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