**Work Schedule** Standard (Mon-Fri) **Environmental Conditions** Office **Job Description** **Job Description** Business Job Title: Procurement Partner Specialist III Direct Report To: Manager, Procurement - Softgels– DPD-NA Group/ Division: Pharma Services Group/ Drug Product Division Career Band: Professional 6 Position Location: Tilburg **About Thermo Fisher Scientific:** When you’re part of the team, 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. 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?** This position is an independent contributor who supports and enables the Division in meeting their operations, innovation and financial targets by encouraging the required performance for assigned projects and categories. Operates in a regulated network of Division business colleagues, suppliers, Category Management members and relevant COE organization. **Scale of Responsibilities** + Identifies supplier capability requirements and presents suppliers for internal qualification process and client approval and leads projects that improve supplier spend performance + Supports divisional footprint initiatives outsourcing vs insourcing (both Operations and R&D) including realization of local/regional supply base solutions + Translates divisional requirements for (future) supplier capabilities and supplier performance to Category Management Team and divisional SQE team + Supports Supplier supply capacity management by conducting capacity assessments and collaborate with the Category Management Teams to expand required supply options as well as supply flexibility + Coordinates business projects, collects forecasts from Supply Chain, processes POs, resolves supplier payment issues, maintains supplier master data **Technical Responsibilities** + Collects supplier (technical) capability requirements for current and future product portfolio as input for supplier scouting + Collects Division business requirements and assures compliance to regulatory requirements + Serves as issue resolution contact for Procurement within the Division and supplies to divisional procurement metrics for business reviews + Serves as the point of contact and ensure the implementation of Enterprise Processes such as Supplier Quality, Supplier Risk and Supplier Management + Ensures compliance for indirect materials, as well as link with Distributed team for policies and procedures **Leadership Responsibilities** + Represents Procurement in NPI projects and coordinate supply activities with x-functional division team as well as with Category Managers. Conduct all related sourcing project management activities (including project milestone/ gate pass activities) + Partners with Corporate, R&D, Engineering to support projects and handle annual value improvements which drives competitive advantage + Uses ‘scouting approach’ to influence R&D and Commercial partners earlier in NPI process, build product pipeline (LCM), support product platforming **How will you get here?** **Education** University degree (Mechanics/Electronics/Business/Industrial Engineering) or a combination of education and experience that demonstrate the required skills **Experience** Minimum 5+ years of procurement/sourcing/supply chain management experience, preferably in Pharmaceutical Companies with high diversity, low volumes, in a highly regulated environment. + Minimum 5 years project management experience including procurement and supply chain related projects + Experience working in a pharmaceutical or similar regulated environment + Training in specialized Purchasing skills (such as Perspective/NEVI) preferred + High level of proficiency with core Procurement skills (financials, sourcing) **Knowledge, Skills, Abilities** + Strong interpersonal communicative skills, with the ability to understand and influence without power through partnership and collaboration. + Ability to establish relationships internally and externally + Excellent English language skills (verbal and in writing), + Proficient in ERP systems, Excel, and other MS Office skills + Problem solving and analytical skills + Knowledge and training in NPI and NPI processes and PLM processes + Must be proactive and self-starting with a focus on continuous quality and performance improvement + Adept at case development and presentations Each one of our 130,000 extraordinary minds has an outstanding story to tell. Join our focused mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier. Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation. 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.