Procurement Assistant

Procurement Assistant

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.

We have a vacancy for a Procurement Assistant in our Global Clinical Supplies Team.

A day in the life:

Responsible for supporting procurement and financial processes related to clinical supplies vendors. The role involves creating purchase requisitions, managing purchase orders, processing invoices, and resolving procurement-related issues in collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Supports Vendor Management through accurate financial tracking, and invoice issues reporting.

Responsibilities:

• Create and manage purchase requisitions and purchase orders (POs)
• Monitor PO lifecycle and resolve discrepancies
• Perform receipt and validation of vendor invoices
• Support invoice reconciliation
• Identify operational inefficiencies and suggest improvements
• Ensure compliance with procurement and financial procedures

Qualifications and experience:

• Advance English and good communication skills both written and verbal
• Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to at least 2 years) in clinical trials or supply chain
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs
• Ability to work in a team environment as well as work independently with moderate direct supervision
• Ability to utilize proper channels of communications to voice concerns and suggestion
• Adaptive to changes and ability to handle high-pressure situations