**Indirect Procurement Category Analyst**
When you're part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 130,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You'll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.
**How will you make an impact?**
**What will you do?**
**Scale of Responsibilities**
- **Monitor operational Supplier and Business Metrics to deliver the Category objective "Supplier Relationship"**
- Responsible for managing monthly Value Capture KPI reporting process, monthly communication plan on initiatives impacting the Regions NA, EMEA and APAC
- Serves as point of escalation for sites with supplier and program issues; manage resolution with appropriate functions across the Regions and by Category
- Drives process optimization within the Indirect Category
- Performs analysis to identify value and business case development, through financial and options analysis, identification of required achievements and deliverables, implementation plans and resources required to achieve and ensure projects contribute to the organization.
Reports on key targets, projects, pipeline (with Group/Category visibility), and AOP financial targets, including adoption of a standard tool and processes
- Coordinates data inputs across the function to enable key reporting visibility and insights
- Analyze Category Process issues and bottlenecks to make improvements
- Uses business partner inputs and knowledge of existing systems and constraints to develop standard reporting requirements and drive process improvements for indirect across Countries, Divisions and Sites
- Perform data discovery, analysis and modeling
- Gather and analyze data for potential business expansion, Category evolution and strategy
- Identify specific business opportunities with the various Groups
- Influence stakeholders to support business projects
- Assist with project management for selected projects at the Category and sub-Category level
- Coordinate with different departmental teams to produce better business outcomes
- Test business processes and recommend improvements
- Convert Indirect Sourcing Roadmaps into smaller user stories
- Write clear and well-structured business requirements/documents
- Identify Continuous improvement opportunities
- Develops effective communication strategies and deliver executive-level presentations to propose key initiatives, provide critical implementation updates, operational line-of-sight, and demonstrate delivery of value within the organization and with our GPLT stakeholders, Finance and Groups / Divisions
**Technical Responsibilities**
- Supports regulatory compliance activities: internal tracking systems, audit requirements, internal change controls, change management, etc.
- Collaborates with Site to gather Category Strategy and Sourcing requirements, gain sign-off on supplier selections and awards.
- Rationalizes and uses the vendor base on a category / program basis, measure and improve internal and external program "compliance" to the corporate contracts
- Consolidates key data sets to build and deliver actionable insights to the category, division and site teams to drive opportunities.
- Applies consistent project management approaches and processes, identifies and reports roadblocks and variances to project plans, ensures projects are on schedule and achieve stated objectives.
- Tracks and monitors timely completion of project targets within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report that progress as required.
- Orchestrates project governance, including regular cadence of PMO sessions (schedule, prepare for, run, and drive follow-ups for key meetings)
- Uses PPI business systems and processes to drive continuous improvement.
**Leadership Responsibilities**
- Coordinates with team members to identify and document resource constraints / risks / help needed.
- Influences key partners to achieve key targets on time and within plan, develop relationships within the company to complete assigned projects.
- Facilitates breakthrough thinking by integrating diverse views while participating in targeted content deep dive sessions to enable problem solving.
- Collaborates with Procurement Enablement on reporting cadences to achieve a single source of truth for the savings pipeline and inflation.
**How will you get here?**
**Education**
- Bachelor's degree or higher in business analysis, business administration, finance or related field
- Certification in Project Management is desirable.
**Experience**
- 5+ years of procurement / category management experience
- 3+ years' experience of negotiation skills and form