Category Analyst

Job Description

Category Analyst - Indirect Procurement

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?

The Category Analyst - Indirect Procurement provides consultative support to category and business teams with program assessment, critical metric analysis, data supported new value generation ideas, including key category insights driven by Market, business process, financial, group/divisional needs and spend to drive incremental procurement value across the corporation. This is a foundational role that will enable the right candidate to build a career trajectory into several areas of procurement, including category management and/or procurement business partnering through close working alignment with these teams. This role will drive indirect program growth, governance, and business integration.

• For assigned category / and or programs - assesses key data needs, Perform data discovery, analysis and modeling in partnership with the Procurement analytics team, to support the development of program ROI to support target objectives. This role will also support the creation of implementation/resource plans to ensure projects contribute to the organization
• Runs global category programs up to $100 M in spend typically that are driven at the "corporate" functional level that require multi region / multi source coordination
• Responsible for the monthly Value Capture Key Process Indicator reporting process, monthly communication plan on initiatives impacting the global programs
• Reports on key targets, projects, pipeline (with Group/Category visibility), and AOP financial targets, including adoption of a standard tool and processes
• Coordinates data sets from multiple sources, formats, and processes to synthesize and develop key program insights to drive ongoing program and category value
• Uses business partner inputs and knowledge of existing systems and constraints to
  • Develop standard reporting requirements, drive process improvements for indirect procurement across divisions, countries, sites
  • Analyze process issues and bottlenecks
  • Identify automation opportunities

• Supports effective communication strategies and delivers executive-level presentations to propose key initiatives, provide critical implementation updates, operational line-of-sight, and demonstrates delivery of value within the organization

• Writes clear and well-structured business requirements/documents
• Collaborates with Sites to gather key sourcing /program requirements, gains sign-off on supplier selections operational proposals and awards
• Rationalizes and uses the vendor base on a category/program basis, measures and improves internal and external program "compliance" to the corporate contracts
• Coordinates and synthesizes data sets from multiple sources to develop programs/insights to deliver ongoing program and category value
• Tracks and monitors timely completion of project targets within the portfolio, plan vs. actual and report progress as required
• Uses PPI business systems and processes to drive continuous improvement.

• Coordinates with team members to identify and document resource constraints
• Influences partners to achieve key targets on time and within plan, develops relationships within the company to complete assigned projects
• Facilitates breakthrough thinking by integrating diverse views while participating in targeted in depth content sessions to enable problem solving

• Bachelor's degree or higher in business analysis, business administration, finance or related field
• Certification in Project Management is desirable.

• Demonstrated consulting experience in a multinational matrix-based procurement environment, driving program analytics, program management and execution for strategic procurement initiatives
• Demonstrated program management experience in a matrix-based procurement environment, driving program analytics, program management and execution for strategic procurement initiatives
• 3+ years of procurement/category management, commodity sourcing, indirect project sourcing or purchasing and commercial management
• 1-3+ years' experience of negotiation skills and formulating the business requirements for a commercial trade contract
• 1-3+ years of Business Analyst experience including cost assessments/ low cost sourcing , Return on Investment development, supplier performance delivery

• Robust project management skills and capabilities -strong proficiency in MS-Office tools (specifically, MS Project, Excel, PowerPoint - Gantt charts, dashboards, key deliverables, business case and baseline development)
• Shown experience in eliciting requirements and testing
• Consistent track record and experience in analyzing data to draw business-relevant conclusions and in data visualization techniques and tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills including technical writing skills
• Exceptional analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills - Proactive / results oriented
• Able to lead change effectively and frequently - Strong ability to effectively communicate with and present to Senior Leadership
• Strong financial competence - Demonstrated ability to make recommendations on and deliver assigned projects.
• Ability to lead matrix project teams of peers and other partners and navigate within a matrix environment.
• Multi-tasking skills and planning for prioritizing personal workload.
• Ability to travel between 10-30% on an annual basis.
• Demonstrated success in developing and fostering relationships with suppliers while driving lower costs, superior performance, and continuous improvement.