Buyer, Procurement (Temporary) [Remote]

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As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our 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 world’s toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.

The Indirect Procurement/Sourcing Specialist will assess, generate, and deliver key business processes, procurement categories, market, financial, and group/divisional level insights to drive incremental procurement value across the corporation.  This role involves working closely with the indirect procurement category teams and divisional business partners in developing and implementing data-driven indirect value capture initiatives. This position will act as a collaborative ally with Category Teams, the Global Procurement Organization, the Center of Excellence, and other enterprise leaders to provide valuable perspectives and resolutions centered on suppliers, contracts, expenditures, efficiency improvements, and projections.

Manage and implement the indirect savings tracking process for assigned categories in partnership with the divisional finances team to ensure recognition of sourcing value.

• Lead the identification, coordination, and automation of key procurement insights to drive incremental indirect value on all procurement and sourcing programs.
• Engage in forward-looking thinking to build insights on key performance indicators and trends to identify future potential based on spend, savings, and market-related data
• Manage multiple projects and priorities
• Collaborate effectively across a matrix environment, build strong partnerships, good interpersonal, communication & negotiation skills

Bachelor’s degree in Business or technical field, or equivalent combination of experience and education

• Minimum 3-5 years of procurement/sourcing experience in mid to large multinational companies. Strong business sense – experience evaluating and assessing procurement/business data to identify value capture opportunities
• Proficient data analytics abilities – familiarity with analyzing intricate procurement data to pinpoint essential procurement insights
• Experience managing multiple programs and projects simultaneously with various collaborators
• Strong interpersonal skills, with an understanding of influencing through collaboration, partnership, and teamwork
• Experience within an indirect procurement environment strongly preferred
• Ability to travel up to 25%

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount