What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr Supply Chain Specialist position at Thermo Fisher Scientific?
Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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.
How will you make an impact?
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.
Standard (Mon-Fri)
Environmental Conditions
Office
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.
How will you make an impact?
- As a member of the Bioproduction supply chain productivity & projects team, you will evaluate, prioritize business initiatives and related master data requirements, developing projects to improve the quality and management of business-critical data. Through multi-functional partnerships, you will install data governance mechanisms for assigned business units in the Bioproduction group. You will drive productivity and enhance our master data by implementing improvement projects.
- You will collaborate with functional leaders to define, prioritize & resource projects through participation in a data management council. You will assess health of current data through data quality assessments and identify data needs for prioritized projects. You will engage with global domain authorities to resolve data challenges. You will implement improvement initiatives using project management principles to deliver projects on time. You will communicate progress to leadership through status reporting and remove barriers to execution that might be encountered.
- Your remit will span the range of data from order intake to order fulfillment.
- Partner with master data & business unit leadership to prioritize & resource data projects aligned with key business priorities. Independently lead multifunctional, high impact projects.
- Drive project scope, resourcing and project plans with clear ownership and due dates. Coordinate project team members, meetings & actions.
- Collaborate with data owners on data gathering, analysis, socialization of solutions and publication of data standards. Encourage functional data stewardship. Partner with support teams including data analytics, data management and data governance to apply their expertise in BPG, driving consistency of practices.
- Create performance indicators measuring impact of projects. Communicate challenges, work with leadership to eliminate obstacles.
- Coordinate updates of business processes & I/T system data. Collaborate with process owners to transfer outcomes to standard business process. Ensure training occurs with new practices. Coordinate BPG data standard repository using tools including data catalogs and Microsoft Sharepoint.
- Lead change. Respect diverse opinions while encouraging consensus.
- Influence across the organization. Be an effective communicator.
- Form a broad network building links across functions and levels of the organization.
- This position will be based at a BPG location (Grand Island, NY; Bedford, MA; Chelmsford, MA; Greenville, SC; Logan, Utah; Santa Clara, CA; Nashville, TN; Miami, Fl; Detroit, MI; Millersburg, PA; Hunt Valley, MD. Alternative locations may be considered)
- Bachelor's degree in Industrial/Mfg Engineering, Supply Chain Management or, equivalent experience.
- Project management, process improvement training preferred.
- 3-5 years of relevant supply chain, materials management, or master data experience.
- Knowledge/experience using data driven systems across the order fulfillment continuum. Examples of systems include Product Life Cycle, Supply Chain, ERP/MRP and planning tools.
- Able to identify data requirements to enable strategy & achievement of goals & objectives.
- Demonstrate understanding of use of data driven processes & systems. Understand system integration, impact on internal & external processes.
- Able to lead multiple projects across people, sites & systems. Able to break down problems and projects into manageable goals.
- Ability to connect with a diverse group including executives, managers, and end-users. Skilled in problem solving, teamwork and facilitation.
- Highly effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Effective time management and prioritization skills.
- At Thermo Fisher Scientific, we believe in the power of diversity and inclusion. We are committed to creating a workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work. We strive to foster a collaborative and inclusive environment that celebrates individual differences and promotes innovation.
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.