Procurement/Sourcing Specialist II

Job Description

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.

Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. Watch as our colleagues explain 5 reasons to work with us. As one team of 100,000+ colleagues, we share a common set of values - Integrity, Intensity, Innovation, and Involvement - working together to accelerate research, solve sophisticated scientific challenges, drive technological innovation, and support patients in need. #StartYourStory at Thermo Fisher Scientific, where diverse experiences, backgrounds and perspectives are valued.

Location/Division Specific Information: Middletown VA/Clinical Diagnostics Division

Position Summary:

Fluent in Microsoft Windows and Office (Excel, Word, Access and PowerPoint). The Procurement Specialist will make an impact by collaborating with Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance and vendors to identify and realize improvements in quality, delivery and price. Providing input to management regarding problems such as shortages, design changes, and backlogs. Assisting in developing and improving materials management procedures and continuously working toward developing an improved supplier base.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Placing PO's and planning material requirements to support inventory, production, and customer requirements while maintaining cost objectives

• Lead Open and Past Due PO's, reschedule requests, and expediting deliveries with our supplier

• Maintain accurate ERP system information, including but not limited to:

• standard lead-times

• pricing, EOQ/MOQ

• delivery dates

• Handle materials supply and inventory levels to meet manufacturing goals, review ECO's and work closely with suppliers and internal teams to update required data and communicate changes, and has strong analytical skills to define problems, collect data, establish facts and get results.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, or other business-related subject area or validated experience is desired.

• High School Diploma or equivalent is required.

• 1-3 years of relevant procurement and planning experience in a manufacturing supply chain preferred.

• Meaningful experience in the Life Science, Medical Device, or highly regulated industry.

• Certification in CPIM or CSCP desirable.

• Strong analytical skills combined with practical business sense.

• Strong oral and written communication, strong multitasking and excellent organizational skills.

• Ability to thrive in a global matrix and cross-functional team environment with Operations and with internal and external customers.

• Experience with ERP systems SAP, JD Edwards preferred and with MRP/demand planning.