Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead

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Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our 120.000 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.

The Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead leads complex, cross-functional product and supply-chain transformation projects from strategy through implementation and value realization. The role orchestrates Procurement, R&D/Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Category Management and supplier partners to deliver competitive product cost, supply resilience, quality and on‑time execution. Projects may include New Product Development and Introduction (NPDI/NPI), product material cost transformation, supplier transfers, make/buy changes, supply-base optimization and other strategic sourcing initiatives.

You have a consistent track record of leading complex projects in dynamic environments, translating strategic objectives into executable plans, setting priorities and driving decisions and results across organizational boundaries. You are comfortable influencing without direct authority and partnering with suppliers and internal stakeholders from concept through implementation and ramp‑up.

A technical background in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial Engineering or a related discipline, combined with strong commercial and business acumen, is strongly preferred. Relevant experience in Procurement, Supply Chain, Engineering and/or Project Management is important, ideally within high‑tech systems or similarly complex, high‑mix/low‑volume environments.

The Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead is an integral member of the Divisional Procurement Partner organization. Depending on the project, the role may act as the Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead in Supply Base Transformation or as the Sourcing & Transformation Project Lead within an NPDI/NPI cross‑functional team.

The role owns the end‑to‑end sourcing and supply‑chain project workstream, from strategy and early design involvement through supplier selection, qualification, industrialization, ramp‑up and value realization. The scope includes prototypes, first articles, pilots, product launches, supplier transitions and volume deliveries across relevant Thermo Fisher Scientific stakeholders and supplier partners.

Local and global travel is anticipated to be up to 25% of your time.

• Lead cross‑functional project teams across Procurement, R&D/Engineering, Operations, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, Business Units, Category Management and suppliers, creating alignment on objectives, priorities, decisions and execution.

• Own the end‑to‑end sourcing and supply‑chain project workstream, including scope, milestones, resources, dependencies, risks, decisions, implementation and expected business benefits.

• Develop project‑specific sourcing and supply‑chain strategies aligned with business, product, manufacturing‑footprint and category strategies, considering supplier capability, cost, quality, capacity, resilience and risk.

• Drive make/buy, supplier‑footprint, localization, dual‑source and other sourcing decisions using a total‑cost‑of‑ownership and business‑risk…