Sr Supply Chain Specialist (REMOTE)
About the position 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. This position will be REMOTE supporting a BPG location (Grand Island, and Greenville, SC). Alternative locations may be considered. As a Sr Supply Chain Specialist, 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 engage with global domain authorities to resolve data challenges. Responsibilities • 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. Requirements • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Supply Chain Management or similar field. • 3-5+ years of relevant supply chain, materials management, or master data experience required. • Knowledge/experience using data driven systems across the order fulfillment continuum. • 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. Nice-to-haves • Project management, process improvement training preferred. Benefits • Competitive remuneration. • Annual incentive plan bonus scheme. • Healthcare and a range of employee benefits. • At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO). • 10 paid holidays annually. • Paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave). • Accident and life insurance. • Short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy. • Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan. • Employees' Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount. Apply tot his job