Procurement Specialist

2 months ago

Perth, United Kingdom Thermo Fisher Scientific Full time

**Job Title: Procurement Specialist**

**Location: Basingstoke preferred but Perth, Dartford and East Grinstead considered.**

**Position Summary**:
This will be a key role in our Microbiology and immunodiagnostics Division’s (MBD and IDD) that supports the implementation of procurement category strategies and changes across our UK and European region.

The Procurement Program Specialist will manager supply chain material changes through our European Sites to be responsible for the execution of transitions, process improvement and other change programs and ensure successful category strategies are delivered. They will be responsible for running the program activities and supervising critical program achievements. The role is needed in ensuring smooth program execution, including transitions, reengineering initiatives, automation projects or system implementations. The job holder will collaborate with a wide range of team members within and outside of Procurement, ensuring a coordinated approach.

**Responsibilities**:

- Co-ordinate and implement raw material source of supply changes across the European sites to ensure full compliance with our Quality Management Systems whilst maintaining continuity of product supply.
- Lead regional, cross-functional, geographically distributed teams to achieve the desired outcomes.
- Coordinate with colleagues identify, document and resolve resource constraints.
- Gather and collate project information and ensure clear communication of progress updates (risks, issues, actions and decisions).
- Deploy sourcing strategy (Efficiency and Supply Assurance)
- Applies consistent project management approaches and processes, identify and report roadblocks and variances to project plan, ensure projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives. Coordinates with team members to identify and detail resource constraints.
- Provide support to the Category Management team to develop cases specific to MBD that support Thermo Fisher’s overall procurement objectives e.g. RFQ Documentation, Bid Analysis, Supplier Pricing Management.
- Work with key partners to identify and develop sourcing solutions that provide better value and better risk management for the business across the EMEA region.
- Lead regular reporting cadence and ad-hoc reports - including leadership reports & presentation.
- Detailing and communicating the status and results of the projects.
- Bringing together project information and ensure clear communication of the outcome of the meeting (risks, issues, actions and decisions).
- Supports supplier consolidation to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers.
- Supplier Communication.

**Experience, skills & abilities required**:

- Experience of working in a Medical, Food or Pharma GMP environment. In particular experience of using GMP Quality Management Systems e.g. ISO 13485, ISO 9001.
- Good influencing skills and ability to work with business partners and collaborators to achieve key deliverables on time and within plan plus develop good working relationships to complete assigned projects.
- Organizational Change and its impact on Quality Management and Customer Supply.
- Ability to support multiple projects and priorities to timelines in a business with an annual spend of >60M on materials and >$200M revenue.
- Previous experience of using SAP or a similar ERP system is desirable.
- Good project management skills and experience (planning tools, defining deliverables, business case and baseline development).
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams.
- Excellent presentation, verbal and written communication skills across all levels of the organization.
- Good planning, interpersonal, and time management skills.
- Ability to deal with highly sensitive information in line with confidentiality expectations.

**Education and Experience**:

- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably business related.
- Procurement/Project Management/6 Sigma/PPI/Kaizen certification desirable.
- CIPS/APICS preferred.
- Experience handling sophisticated, programs and project initiatives ranging from Supply Chain improvements, NPI, Raw Material Changes, Finance Transitions and systems implementation.
- Life Sciences, BioTech, or Pharma industry preferred.

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