How Will You Make an Impact?

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue exceeding $25 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, improving patient diagnostics and therapies or increasing productivity in their laboratories, we are here to support them. Our global team of more than 75,000 colleagues delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services and Patheon. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.

What will you do?

• Lead in sourcing and procuring of materials, parts, components and assemblies to provide company with a competitive edge through lower materials cost, quality products, shorter manufacturing cycle-time and timely delivery to customers
• Support new product transfer program by acting as focus person to co-ordinate procurement activities until 1st production run
• Provide technical sourcing support to R&D to meet aggressive COGS target and/or new suppliers/commodities for development
• Drives the release of materials in timely manner with project core team/R&D to meet production build dates
• Support R&D sourcing effort by identifying and purchasing of components during prototype build
• Lead and drive sourcing activities to achieve cost savings target
• Investigates new or alternate sources of supply to support new product development, cost reduction requirements and/or supplier performance issues
• Conduct supplier survey and assessment jointly with Supplier Quality and Engineering group
• Escalation path for purchasing group to support delivery expediting and/or quality matters to ensure supply continuity during NPI phase

How will you get here?

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering discipline preferred

Experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience
• SAP/E1 experience a plus

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Strong communication, interpersonal, negotiation, consensus-building, and analytical skills with the ability to work successfully in cross functional teams in an organized, fast paced environment while meeting time sensitive deadlines is a must

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 75,000 extraordinary minds has a unique story to tell. Join us and contribute to our singular mission—enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Apply today http://jobs.thermofisher.com

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.