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Sr Manager, Procurement - Category-March 2024
Morrisville
Mar 28, 2026
About Sr Manager, Procurement - Category

  Job Description

  Business Title: Sr Manager, Procurement – Chemicals

  Location: Hybrid Role close to one of our main Procurement Locations

  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 130,000 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 Sr Manager, Procurement – Category typically owns category management for level 2 global categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and work closely with Division Business Partners, Quality, Operations, R&D, and Business leaders to ensure category strategies are aligned cross functionally. Leads a Category team responsible for strategic sourcing activities and supplier management functions. Builds organizational strength, create robust sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, manage strategic supplier relationships, and drive continuous improvement year over year savings.

  What will you do?

  Scale of Responsibilities

  Connects key categories to relevant Thermo Fisher business divisions ensuring alignment of strategies and financial targets

  Accountable for the multi-year category strategy and plan objectives, timelines, and goals

  Analyzes cross-divisional spending and develops global strategic sourcing plans to reduce the total cost of ownership for all business units

  Demonstrates a measurable reduction in year over year total cost of ownership for the goods and services being sourced without compromising quality and service levels

  Considers financial planning, forecasting, P&L performance, inventory, cash flow, tariffs and inflation to inform strategy

  Technical Responsibilities

  Provides thought leadership in developing and implementing sourcing strategies

  Champions the use of structured Category Management process to develop category strategies including diversity, sustainability and risk assessment and business continuity

  Uses AQSCIR (Assurance, Quality, Service, Cost, Innovation, Regulatory) method to develop and drive 3 to 5 year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with suppliers that meet category management goals

  Communicates plans and progress to Enterprise colleagues

  Runs the contracting process and lead coordination with Legal to ensure relationships are appropriately documented

  Leads the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process

  Assesses market intelligence for key trends, and uses predictive analytics to make risk mitigation recommendations to the business

  Drives supplier consolidation through engaging and supporting Division Business Partners and Group Procurement Operations (e.g. sourcing engineers) to qualify preferred suppliers and migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers

  Leadership Responsibilities

  Typically works under the direction of a Sr Director or Director, drives adoption of global sourcing strategies across the enterprise and ensures ongoing cross team collaboration

  Champions use of eSourcing, Spend Visibility, and P2P tools company-wide

  Works with Division Business Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development

  Create and maintain a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact

  Leads a Global/Regional Category Team, develops staff to create expertise in both the areas of spend being managed and in strategic sourcing processes

  Mentors and develops staff through coaching and development plans to address individual areas of improvement

  Implements talent initiatives to improve Employee Involvement Survey results

  How will you get here?

  Education, Experience, Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

  Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field

  Minimum 10 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, minimum 7 years’ experience in the assigned category

  3+ years experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management

  Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority

  Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization

  Strong negotiation and presentation skills

  Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process

  Strong project management skills

  Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information

  Capable of working across all functions and levels of an organization

  International experience (plus) – working experience in different countries/regions/languages

  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.

  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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