Supplier Specialist III

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.
 

Responsibilities  

• Support portfolio strategy by providing market research, defining market trends, investigating customer needs, and defining customer and product requirements.  

• Coordinate periodic business reviews, quarterly or on an “as needed” basis, with suppliers and PCS leadership.  

• Provide Portfolio project management support as needed, including all vital stage gate process activity and leading a cadence for weekly reviews with all related departmental parties involved.  

• Work collaboratively on projects within product and portfolio management and with other functional teams across the organization.  

• Support successful product commercialization initiatives by working closely with cross-functional teams including sales and technical support. Joining them in training and actively participate in the sales process.  

• Provide competitive landscape insights to Portfolio Management leadership regarding the current supplier base. Also, help promote a working understanding of adjacent markets within the department.  

• Collaborate with the Commercial team and Marketing to develop and implement focused product or supplier promotional campaigns.  

• Maintain PCS Portfolio Management repository of working files and documents on a shared data storage location such as SharePoint.  

• Other Portfolio Management duties, or other related duties, as needed on an ongoing basis.  

Qualifications  

• Bachelor’s degree required in biological sciences, chemistry, business, or equivalent.  

• 3+ years of experience in portfolio management, supply chain management, marketing, sales, or business development.  

• Experience in handling relationships with suppliers, business partners, and customers.  

Skills/Abilities  

• Ability to work autonomously on projects of diverse scope and moderate complexity.  

• Ability to identify and implement strategic goals and drive key business priorities.  

• Proven good judgment in ambiguous business circumstances.  

• Ability to partner seamlessly within the organization.  

• Experience with Power BI, Salesforce, and AI 

• Consistent record of developing and maintaining strong working relationships cross-functionally, gaining internal agreement and/or consensus, and influencing others without direct authority.  

• Ability to build and analyze basic financial models to forecast and track results.  

• Good interpersonal and time management skills with the ability to prioritize and lead multiple projects simultaneously.  

• Ability to function in a sophisticated, matrix business environment.  

• Strong communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills.  

• Strong project management skills.  

• Self-directed and highly effective at achieving objectives.  

• Maintain high ethical standards to support a professional business code of conduct.