**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 100,000 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 **Senior Manager, Procurement - Lab Supplies **owns category management for global categories encompassing multiple site locations, divisions and groups. Ensures that the category strategy is aligned with the functional/business objectives and works closely with Division Procurement 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, creates robust sourcing strategies, negotiates agreements, manages strategic supplier relationships, and drives 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 integral 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**- Works under the direction of a Senior 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 Procurement Partners and functional colleagues to gather business requirements for category strategy development- Creates and maintains a communication mechanism to ensure coordination with internal colleagues and reporting of sourcing impact- Leads a Global 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 of experience in Lab Suppl- 3+ years of 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 amb