Work Schedule
Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions
Office

Job Description

When you join us at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you will join a driven team that shares your passion for exploration and discovery. With revenues of $40+ billion and the largest investment in R&D in the industry, we give our people the resources and opportunities to make significant contributions to the world.

How will you make an impact?

As a member of the Global Supplier Quality organization, the Supplier Quality Sr. Manager will be a catalyst into the global performance management program at Thermo Fisher. You will work closely with a cross functional team to quickly mitigate and deploy critical actions. The Supplier Quality Sr. Manager will be a member of the extended leadership team and may lead or represent strategic projects or initiatives. A primary leader of people and processes to improve supplier performance, drive down cost of poor quality, ability to identify/leverage analytics and data for business problem solving and ability to see issues from multiple viewpoints and understand differing needs of partners.

• Lead and develop a distributed team of Supplier Quality Engineers of various levels and experience.
• Drive knowledge expansion around category specific subjects to support revenue growth.
• Continuously question and improve.
• Collaborate with global and local functions to define actions and priorities for supplier related quality issues.
• Be a champion of problem solving and root cause analysis activities with suppliers and customers to eliminate recurrence of non-conformances.
• Actively participate in strategic supplier development based on risks identified through Supply Chain Risk Mitigation team.

• Strong passion to deliver results to improve.
• Develop deep partnerships with key internal customers and earning trust.
• Develop supplier relationships to generate and implement quality improvements.

• Forward thinker with proactive mentality and a track record of delivering innovative solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement with procedures, policies and quality assurance methodologies.

• B.S. Engineering/Operations Management, Biological Sciences preferred
• Quality lead auditor training certificate preferred

• People management experience.
• Supplier performance management.
• Knowledge of ISO 13485 required and 21 CFR Part 820 preferred.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English language required.
• Understanding of six sigma tools such as 8D, FMEA, DMAIC, Value Stream Map and Pareto Analysis preferred.
• Experience in business and quality management systems (i.e. SAP, TrackWise, etc.).
• Strong presentations skills preferred.

• High level of contact with all local and global departments.
• Frequent interaction with suppliers.
• Collaborate with other departments on matters relating to supplier quality issues. This involves working with people at all levels within the organization as well as external customers and regulatory bodies.

• Visits to factories wearing PPE, including cleanroom PPE
• Frequent travel required (domestic/international)