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About Thermo Fisher Scientific:
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 80,000 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 Procurement Specialist – EMEA, working in a newly formed indirect Tactical Sourcing Team, you will seek out suppliers and negotiate optimal terms of business to meet business requirements for specific sites, divisions or geographies
You will make a positive impact on the operation of the business and its financial performance
What will you do
Scale of Responsibilities
•    Gather business requirements from stakeholders as the basis for securing proposals and quotes from suppliers
•    Use e-sourcing system for all sourcing activities (RFI, RFP, RFQ) providing full visibility of the activities and responses from suppliers
•    Craft negotiation plans and close deals securing optimal terms from suppliers for assigned sourcing initiatives
•    Collaborate with Regional category managers to support the execution of category strategies by running sourcing events for defined scopes of work
•    Engage with business collaborators to understand their requirements bringing in others within procurement where category expertise is vital
•    Ensure suppliers are set up for success when transacting with Thermo Fisher, working together with colleagues in Shared Service Centers
Technical Responsibilities
•    Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers
•    Seek out and engage with vendors, assessing their capabilities and motivations to be a supplier to Thermo Fisher Scientific
•    perform cost and capability analysis of suppliers and their proposals
•    Negotiate contract terms and report on the commercial impact to record productivity improvements
•    Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (operations, facilities, marketing, finance and legal) to provide a proactive procurement service
•    Brings an authoritative understanding of comparing costs, proposals and quotations on a like for like basis
Personal competencies
•    Strong service and professional orientation, does what you say you will do, makes and keeps commitments to timelines and project achievements
•    Commercially oriented to negotiate and secure the best value for money for Thermo Fishers purchases
•    Desire to grow and develop as a procurement specialist
•    Agility and flexibility to develop sourcing expertise in multiple categories (Corporate services, Sites services, IT, Travel) complimenting the regional category team
•    Curious and tenacious to seek out detailed solutions from vendors
•    Ability to collect, analyze and interpret data to inform sourcing decisions
•    Great presentation skills and high ability to articulate in written formats
How will you get here?
•    Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field
•    Minimum of 3 years procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies which have multiple business units/ profit centers
•    Experience working in highly regulated and/or technical industries
•    Confirmed consultative/collaborative style establishing relationships with multiple stakeholders
•    Professional written and oral English language capability; additional European language (especially German) is a plus
•    Ability to travel 15 to 25%
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. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.
EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.