.**Business Title**:Procurement Manager - Mechanical**Band**:7**Job Code**:OPS.PROC.P07**:**About Thermo Fisher Scientific**: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 80,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You'll find the resources here 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.**How will you make an impact?**The** Procurement Manager - Category**, drives the execution of complex category strategies encompassing multiple sites necessary to continuously improve the assigned categories of spend. Collaborates with a cross-functional team of sourcing, operations, technical, finance and other colleagues to prioritize sourcing initiatives, develops sourcing strategies, negotiates contracts, supports spend migration from incumbent to preferred suppliers, and manages preferred supplier relationships**What will you do?****Scale of Responsibilities**:- Manages global category initiatives to deliver key category performance indicators including: savings, supplier rationalization, low-cost region sourcing, risk- Leads the execution of a 3 to 5-year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting with preferred suppliers that meet key business needs and category management goals- Participates in the development of 3-5 year global sourcing strategies focused on identifying and contracting preferred suppliers that meet key business category management goals**Technical Responsibilities**:- Monitors market intelligence and key trends, assesses impact and refines category plans to support business requirements- Engages and supports division/site procurement teams and other key colleagues to qualify preferred suppliers & migrate spend from incumbent, non-preferred suppliers- Analyze category supplier performance data to find opportunities for supplier performance improvement and to establish continuous improvement goals- Actively participates in supplier business reviews with suppliers to ensure both parties meet obligations under the terms of agreement, including performance standards and continuous improvement goals- Manages strategic contracts across suppliers, products and services within category- Facilitates free-flow of spend intelligence and analysis to internal business leaders in order to enhance their decision making- Drives negotiations for global agreements aligned with category strategy**Leadership Responsibilities**:- Collaborates with cross-functional colleagues (quality, technical, operations, finance, etc