Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team youll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our 120.000 colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the worlds toughest challenges like protecting the environment making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

How will you make an impact

The Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead leads complex cross-functional product and supply-chain transformation projects from strategy through implementation and value realization. The role orchestrates Procurement R&D/Engineering Operations Quality Supply Chain Finance Category Management and supplier partners to deliver competitive product cost supply resilience quality and on-time execution. Projects may include New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI/NPI) product material cost transformation supplier transfers make/buy changes supply-base optimization and other strategic sourcing initiatives.

You have a consistent track record of leading complex projects in dynamic environments translating strategic objectives into executable plans setting priorities and driving decisions and results across organizational boundaries. You are comfortable influencing without direct authority and partnering with suppliers and internal stakeholders from concept through implementation and ramp-up.

A technical background in Mechanical Electrical Industrial Engineering or a related discipline combined with strong commercial and business acumen is strongly preferred. Relevant experience in Procurement Supply Chain Engineering and/or Project Management is important ideally within high-tech systems or similarly complex high-mix/low-volume environments.

The Position

The Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead is an integral member of the Divisional Procurement Partner organization. Depending on the project the role may act as the Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead in Supply Base Transformation or as the Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead within an NPDI/NPI cross-functional team.

The role owns the end-to-end sourcing and supply-chain project workstream from strategy and early design involvement through supplier selection qualification industrialization ramp-up and value realization. The scope includes prototypes first articles pilots product launches supplier transitions and volume deliveries across relevant Thermo Fisher Scientific stakeholders and supplier partners.

Local and global travel is anticipated to be up to 25% of your time.

Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Lead cross-functional project teams across Procurement R&D/Engineering Operations Quality Supply Chain Finance Business Units Category Management and suppliers creating alignment on objectives priorities decisions and execution.
• Own the end-to-end sourcing and supply-chain project workstream including scope milestones resources dependencies risks decisions implementation and expected business benefits.
• Develop project-specific sourcing and supply-chain strategies aligned with business product manufacturing-footprint and category strategies considering supplier capability cost quality capacity resilience and risk.
• Drive make/buy supplier-footprint localization dual-source and other sourcing decisions using a total-cost-of-ownership and business-risk perspective.
• For NPDI/NPI projects ensure early Procurement and supplier involvement to influence architecture manufacturability serviceability technology choices Design-to-Cost/Design-to-Value and supply-chain readiness before key design decisions are locked.
• Lead supplier and product transitions from feasibility through qualification and ramp-up ensuring technical readiness capacity quality logistics business continuity and robust phase-in/phase-out plans.
• Drive product cost and value performance through Design-to-Cost/Value should-cost value engineering and other productivity levers; monitor Cost of Goods Sold (CoGS) against agreed business targets.
• Own the project value case with Finance and relevant business stakeholders including baseline target implementation plan and tracking of realized benefits.
• Partner with Category Management on supplier selection commercial negotiations contracting and supplier relationship decisions translating category strategies into effective project execution.
• Partner with Supplier Quality Engineering and technical teams to manage supplier quality qualification manufacturability and supply risks with a focus on first-time-right readiness.
• Establish disciplined project governance including milestone reviews KPI tracking RAID management (risks assumptions issues and dependencies) decision logs executive reporting and timely escalation of barriers.
• Drive improved product and supply-chain designs quality delivery time-to-market structural cost competitiveness and supply resilience while protecting continuity of supply throughout implementation.

Education:

• University degree in Mechanical Electrical Industrial Engineering or a related discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience demonstrating the required technical commercial and project leadership skills.

Experience:

• Strong project leadership background with demonstrated ability to manage complex cross-functional initiatives against scope schedule quality cost risk and benefit targets. Relevant Project Management certification is preferred.
• 7 years of relevant experience in complex high-tech or industrial environments with demonstrated experience leading projects in one or more areas such as NPDI/NPI strategic sourcing supply-chain transformation supplier transfer product cost transformation industrialization or value engineering.

Knowledge Skills Abilities:

• Strong strategic sourcing and commercial skills including supplier strategy negotiation total-cost thinking and business-case development.
• Strong business and financial acumen with the ability to understand product cost TCO value drivers and benefit realization.
• Proven ability to lead and influence cross-functional teams without direct authority and to create alignment in complex stakeholder environments.
• Structured project and change leadership: able to translate ambiguity into executable plans drive decisions and maintain momentum through implementation.
• Strong technical-commercial orientation with the ability to translate engineering requirements into supplier manufacturability cost and supply-risk implications.
• Analytical problem solving and continuous-improvement mindset; Lean Six Sigma or similar certification is preferred.
• Strong relationship-building and supplier-partnership skills combined with a hands-on self-directed drive for results.
• Disciplined governance and executive communication skills including concise reporting of performance risks trade-offs decisions and required escalations.
• Excellent English communication skills both verbal and written; ability to work effectively across global and multicultural teams.

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.

Required Experience:

Senior IC