Buyer II

Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, your work will have a significant global impact. Join our team of 100,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life daily, enabling customers to improve the world's health, cleanliness, and safety. Here, you'll have the resources to achieve your career goals and develop solutions for challenging issues like environmental protection, food safety, and cancer research.

How will you make an impact?

The Buyer II role at Thermo Fisher Scientific offers an outstanding chance to improve supply chain execution and support our mission of making the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. You will develop and implement procurement strategies, ensuring flawless execution and alignment with our goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Procurement Management

• Develop and lead strategic discussions with suppliers to optimize lead times, minimum order quantities, and demand forecasts.
• Conduct quarterly business reviews with senior leaders to set goals, develop project plans, and review performance metrics.
• Drive service performance to meet or exceed internal targets and customer expectations.
• Improve EDI accuracy with suppliers and lead Sales, Inventory and Operation Planning (SIOP) calls.
• Develop performance improvement plans that communicate root cause, actions taken, and accurate recovery dates.

Metric Management

• Analyze and release daily purchase orders.
• Evaluate and control shipments from suppliers to end customers through the PTO (Performance to Original) process.
• Apply Microsoft Office tools and data mining tools (SQL and Cognos) to improve service levels and minimize outages.
• Support inventory management through supplier engagement for return execution.

Relationship Management

• Manage internal vendor settings and tables.
• Perform ad hoc reporting and participate in continuous improvement projects.
• Provide training and mentoring to new employees as needed.

Requirements/Qualifications:

• Minimum Required Education: HS Diploma/ GED
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 5+ years experience with supply chain data
• Proficient in using Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
• Good prioritization skills and the ability to multi-task.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong influencing skills.
• Problem solving skills.
• Analytical skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Supplier/vendor management experience.
• APICS certification (CPIM, CIRM, CSCP).
• Experience using SQL Server or COGNOS.

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, each one of our 100,000 outstanding talents has a remarkable narrative to share. 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.