Senior Buyer - Dartford, United Kingdom - Thermo Fisher Scientific

Thermo Fisher Scientific

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Dartford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About our Division

Working as part of our Microbiology Division (MBD), within the Specialty Diagnostics Group, you'll play an active part in helping us to achieve our mission to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

The Microbiology Division discovers microbiological solutions for the diagnosis of infectious disease and detection of bacterial contamination.

We serve public health, clinical laboratories, food companies, environmental screening and pharmaceutical laboratories with a portfolio of products that include culture media, antimicrobial susceptibility testing solutions and best-in-class molecular solutions for food safety testing.

Position Summary:

Responsible for driving and improving assurance of supply across our 6 main Microbiology sites, located in Dartford (UK), East Grinstead (UK), Perth (UK), Vantaa (FIN), Adelaide (AUS) and Melaka (MA).

This will include the support of critical assurance of supply issues called out by the purchasing team, the execution of a divisional risk mitigation plan, the execution of specific assigned saving projects and finally the supervision of the supplier relationship process.

Please note, this is a site based role which will require you to travel between the East Grinstead and Dartford sites mainly, with some flexibility to work up to 1 day per week from home *_

Responsibilities:

You will provide support on your assigned local sites for any critical assurance of supply issue, and responsible for supporting and driving resolution.
You will communicate clear updates to internal collaborators around any raw material or resale shortages raised to you, via supply chain tier meetings.
You will support the purchasing teams with specific contract management purchasing processes on our instrument range
You will drive the internal change management process when alternative raw materials need to be implemented due to assurance of supply issues.
You will complete the risk mitigation action program (at SKU & Supplier level) to reduce supply business risk exposure across the division
You will drive execution of the divisional supplier relationship program in collaboration with the purchasing and quality team who will feedback on supplier performance and ensuring compliance with our vendor management standards.
You will implement specific assigned divisional saving projects in collaboration with our corporate team and divisional sourcing team
You will support inventory reduction target to reach the divisional goal
You will run supplier approval and purchasing compliance regarding use of approved suppliers by the purchasing team.

Experience, skills & abilities required:

We're looking for someone who:

Consistently demonstrates our 4i Values of Integrity, Intensity, Innovation & Involvement
Puts the Customer First
Thinks and acts with a customercentric attitude to deliver outstanding customer experience
Prioritizes customer requirements and is dedicated to meeting or exceeding customer expectations
Continuously improves internal processes to create new value for the customer
Develops and maintains successful customer relationships (internal and/or external)
Owns Their Results
Takes personal accountability for decisions and actions, and always exercises good judgement
Does not make excuses for poor performance, is open about what is not working and what needs to be done to fix it
Takes personal ownership for adherence to safety, compliance, quality, and cyber security
Consistently applies good judgement and maintains commitment to Thermo Fisher Scientific ethics and values
Finds a Better Way Every Day
Is intellectually curious and adopts continuous improvement, challenging the status quo. Introduces and proactively seeks out new insights and solutions to strengthen performance
Role model the use of Practical Process Improvement (PPI) to improve processes
Holds self and others accountable to build PPI capability and instil a continuous improvement culture
Ensures standard processes and lessons learned are adopted

Benefits we offer
In addition to a competitive annual salary you'll be eligible for company
bonus, annual salary and performance
reviews, contributory
pension plan, private
medical insurance, 25 days
holiday + bank holidays, optional
holiday purchase scheme,
Employee Assistance Programme,
life assurance,
income protection, other optional benefits such as
dental plan, high street
discounts,
stock purchase plan to name a few

About us

When you're part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll do ambitious work, and be part of a team that values performance, quality and innovation.

As part of a successful, growing global organization you will be encouraged to perform at your best. With revenues of $40 billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and chances to creat