Category Manager Optics - FEI Electron Optics B.V.

The Category Manager Optics is the global leader responsible for deploying and driving the procurement category vision with key colleagues.

You will be driving category strategy definition, execution, and implementation. This position will facilitate the development and execution of long-term strategies that will optimize quality, cycle/response time, technology, risk, and total cost. The role will mitigate risk, use technology, improve processes and systems, and reduce the overall cost of ownership and acquisition.

The focus in this position is on complex products within the optics domain (low volume - high mix) such as cameras, detection modules, detection elements, energy filters and laser & lamps.

Key tasks and responsiblities:

• Develop the sourcing strategy of optic products and services considering price, volume, share and profitability. Ensure product portfolio addresses market needs and continuous improvements where needed to maintain and/or improve market penetration and share position.
• Conduct voice of the customer activities, assess market trends and competition offerings to develop and implement proactive strategies to strengthen the product line’s business advantage.
• Define promotional focus areas and sourcing strategy to increase revenue and margin including product pricing with commercial teams.
• Lead the supplier qualification, RFP, supplier selection, contract development, implementation, compliance, and ongoing supply base management process
• Synthesize conclusions from R&D and product management to communicate key findings to other key partners and drive action. Evaluate assigned products for obsolescence and communicate recommendations for efficient product management.
• Build a successful work environment that accelerates individual performance by promoting trust, learning, and fun! Champion diversity and inclusion driving the attraction and growth of top talent and leverage the existing culture to drive a sense of belonging.

In this position you have a lot of interaction with different stakeholders such as R&D, Business Unit Managers and procurement colleagues in the business/division (Division Procurement Partners).

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 their Mission to life every single day to enable their customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer.

You’ll find the resources there 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.

This position will start with an one year contract via YER. After this year you will make a takeover step to a contract at Thermo Fisher.

During this first year YER will offer an yearly salary between: €80.000 and €110.000 (all-in).

Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. They offer an

exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

• Bachelor’s Degree required; Graduate Degree in Business (Preferred), Finance, and/or Technical field
• Minimum 7 years’ of procurement/sourcing experience with increasing global responsibility and experience in a large matrixed company environment, minimum 7 years’ experience in the assigned category (optics)
• Minimum 3 years experience leading and managing procurement teams with a focus on mentoring, coaching and performance management
• Strong leadership and effective business partnering capabilities – influence without authority
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams in a complex organization
• Strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Strong knowledge of the strategic sourcing and category management process
• Strong project management skills
• Requires ability to deal with ambiguity and the corresponding capacity to make decisions or recommendations based on potentially incomplete information
• Must be able to work across all functions and levels of an organization
• International experience (plus) – working experience in different countries/regions/languages