Thermo Fisher Scientific
About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science, with revenues of $17 billion and 50,000 employees in 50 countries. Our mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We help our customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics and increase laboratory productivity. Our four premier brands – Life Technologies, Thermo Scientific, Fisher Scientific and Unity Lab Services – offer an unmatched combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and comprehensive support. For more information, please visit www.thermofisher.com.
The Supplier Relations Representative role supports the Supplier Relations business functions by preparing, reporting and acting upon operational and non-compliance data. This position will support the design, develop, and deployment of strategic initiatives as outlined in the Global Supplier Guide. The Supplier Relations Representative will act as the primary gatekeeper of all non-compliance issues to drive actions and results from multiple functions and support the ongoing development and enhancement of the process to create efficiencies and results with our supplier base. Additionally, this role will act as business partner to support IT Team to drive/prioritize EDI implementations and improve transaction success rate/accuracy. Work closely with Portfolio Management, Distribution, Transportation, Purchasing, and Ecommerce to support strategic requirements for the businesses and relentlessly drive the customer experience.
Key Responsibilities:
- Owns the weekly invoicing preparation for all expense off-sets and is responsible for up-dating the master file. Validate all offsets and up-date master file, Frontline for compliance calls and inquiries.
- Owns the preparation for the weekly Operations call prepares Power Point decks and publishes notes from the call.
- Deliver weekly offset summary to the Executive Team.
- Train internal customers and peers on the use of tools and processes created for Supplier Management.
- Create a world class internal customer service program helping to deliver solutions that improve processes for Portfolio Management, Finance, Distribution, Transportation, Inventory Planning, Ecommerce, and Purchasing.
- Develop cross-functional team that will help develop and implement future company strategies that build on current and future supplier requirements.
- Manage supplier discussions regarding non-compliance issues to deliver solutions that add value to both companies.
- Support the management of the compliance P&L maintain and up-date analytics and reporting for month, quarter, year closings. Ensure that we meet all the audit requirements.
- Provide visibility into our current EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) capabilities and % utilization.
- Support the design, develop, and deploy relational databases and automated workflows to increase efficiencies for recurring processes that drive the customer experience.
- Manage supplier data base transaction priority list for IT create test PO’s to drive EDI implementations for franchise business.
- Create process that provides visibility into successful EDI transactions to proactively address habitual failures routinely compliance reporting scrub.
- Be liaison between IT and purchasing from a business need perspective.
- Understand and drive quality of all EDI transactions – 850, 855, 856, 810
Minimum Requirements/Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in business related discipline is desired or equivalent work experience (logistics, quantitative business analysis, management information systems, or Purchasing Buyer/Coordinator experience).
- 2-4 years experience, preferably in a high volume, multi-location distribution environment, concentrating in distribution operations, inventory management, forecasting, purchasing, or transportation.
- Agile and flexible. Able to work in a fast moving, demanding environment and move from project to project as needed.
Non-Negotiable Hiring Criteria:
- Extensive knowledge of PC applications, specifically Excel and Access. Experience in relational databases using SQL preferred.
- Analytical and problem solving abilities. Demonstrated experience in analyzing significant amounts of data and turning it into actionable information.
- Demonstrated ability to independently take ownership of initiatives and drive execution.
- Excellent interpersonal skills to apply in communications with business partners, the field, and corporate personnel.
- High intensity with demonstrated ability to lead teams and work across functions.
This position has not been approved for Relocation Assistance.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $22.00 – $24.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
Supplemental Pay:
- Bonus pay
Education:
- Bachelor’s (Preferred)
Experience:
- Warehouse distribution: 2 years (Preferred)
- Supplier Relations: 2 years (Preferred)
Work Location: One location
