Thermo Fisher Scientific
Director, Strategic Sourcing
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Job Description
At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Every day, our colleagues bring our Mission to life—enabling customers to make the world healthier, cleaner, and safer. By joining our Pharma Services team, you'll be part of a leading Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) trusted by biotech and biopharma companies worldwide for speed, flexibility, and quality across every phase of drug development. Together, we help accelerate the delivery of innovative therapies that improve lives around the world.
About the Role
The Comparator Business Unit plays a critical role in supporting clinical development by ensuring customers have timely, reliable access to comparator medicines across global markets. As Director of Strategic Sourcing & Market Intelligence, you will define and execute the global sourcing strategy that enables this success. This is more than a sourcing leadership role. You will influence commercial strategy, shape supplier partnerships, strengthen supply resilience, and build market intelligence capabilities that create competitive advantage.
Working closely with Commercial, Operations, Procurement, Quality, and Finance, you will identify growth opportunities, mitigate supply risk, and lead transformational initiatives that improve customer outcomes and business performance. You will lead an international team, develop future leaders, and create an environment where innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement thrive.
This role is site-based (4 days per week, with 1 day wfh) at either our Allshwil, Switzerland, or Horsham, UK locations. Regular international travel will be required - up to 30% of working time.
Why this role matters
- Shape the sourcing strategy for one of the industry's leading global comparator businesses.
- Influence enterprise decisions using commercial insight and market intelligence.
- Build strategic supplier partnerships that strengthen customer confidence and improve patient access to medicines.
- Lead digital transformation and continuous improvement across a global function.
- Develop high-performing teams and organizational capability while driving measurable business growth.
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What you will do
- Develop and execute a global sourcing strategy aligned to long-term commercial objectives and customer needs.
- Lead Comparator Portfolio Management, ensuring strong financial performance, supply continuity, and product competitiveness.
- Design sourcing strategies for strategic customer opportunities, new product access, and supplier diversification.
- Build executive-level partnerships with strategic suppliers, leading governance, performance reviews, and long-term collaboration.
- Partner with Procurement and Operations to negotiate commercial agreements that optimize value, pricing, and supply security.
- Lead market intelligence capabilities that identify trends, emerging risks, competitive dynamics, and growth opportunities.
- Champion digital innovation and business transformation to improve sourcing effectiveness, scalability, and decision-making.
- Influence senior stakeholders across the enterprise, aligning sourcing strategy with business priorities.
- Lead, coach, and inspire a global leadership team while building a strong succession pipeline.
- Deliver strategic objectives, resolve complex customer or supplier challenges, and foster a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Requirements
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Science, Supply Chain, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, commercial strategy, or a related function.
- 5+ years leading managers and geographically dispersed teams within a complex global matrix organisation.
- Track record of developing enterprise sourcing strategies that improve commercial performance, strengthen supply resilience, and enable growth.
- Significant experience negotiating complex commercial agreements and developing executive-level supplier partnerships.
- Experience leading organizational transformation, change initiatives, and continuous improvement programmes.
- Experience within pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, life sciences, healthcare, or another regulated industry is preferred.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
- Executive-level strategic thinking with strong commercial and financial acumen.
- Exceptional influencing, communication, and executive stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to translate market intelligence into business strategy and customer value.
- Strong analytical capability with a data-driven approach to decision-making.
- Proven ability to lead change, inspire high-performing teams, and develop future leaders.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity while delivering measurable business outcomes.
- Willingness to travel globally as business needs require.
- Advanced level of English language.
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Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. is the world leader in serving science, with annual revenue of more than $40 billion. Our Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. Whether our customers are accelerating life sciences research, solving complex analytical challenges, increasing productivity in their laboratories, improving patient health through diagnostics or the development and manufacture of life-changing therapies, we are here to support them. Our global team delivers an unrivaled combination of innovative technologies, purchasing convenience and pharmaceutical services through our industry-leading brands, including Thermo Scientific, Applied Biosystems, Invitrogen, Fisher Scientific, Unity Lab Services, Patheon and PPD.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Thermo Fisher Scientific is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, genetic information, veteran status, age or disability status.
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