Global Commodity Specialist (Metals - Instruments)

Job Title

Global Commodity Specialist (Metals - Instruments)

Location(s)

Llantrisant

About Us

Revvity is a developer and provider of end-to-end solutions designed to help scientists, researchers, and clinicians solve the world’s greatest health challenges. We pair the enthusiasm of an industry disruptor with the experience of a longtime leader. Our team of 11,000+ colleagues from around the globe are vital to our success and the reason we’re able to push boundaries in pursuit of better human health.

Find your future at Revvity 

This role will focus on developing the global preferred supplier network, driving major material related productivity projects, building strategic alliances with existing suppliers and identifying new suppliers. Partnering with site procurement teams to drive supplier performance and cultivate redundancy and resiliency across our instrument supply chain

Our Company and Passion:

Does working on disruptive, integrated, sample-to-solution platforms excite you? Would you work well with a cross-functional team of people passionate about shaking up an industry? Can you work with multiple outside suppliers, product management, R&D and manufacturing teams to build the best solutions for our customers?

Revvity is looking for a detail oriented, passionate individual who wants to make a difference in the field of innovative, next generation reagent products. Our team has a straight-forward, can-do culture, and we hold each other to lofty standards.

Summary:

The primary responsibilities of this position include leading the metals commodity globally for Diagnostic and Life Science instrumentation, partnering with the manufacturing sites, R&D and business leaders to provide strategic sourcing expertise for both day-to-day operations and product road map planning. In addition, supporting the sourcing team with the plastics and fluidics commodities.

This role will focus on developing the global preferred supplier network, driving major material related productivity projects, building strategic alliances with existing suppliers and identifying new suppliers. Partnering with site procurement teams to drive supplier performance and cultivate redundancy and resiliency across our instrument supply chain.

The successful candidate will possess and demonstrate a deep understanding of strategic supplier management within the context of manufacturing environments and be able to source and evaluate global suppliers and their capabilities. The position requires excellent people skills, ability to work closely with our internal teams and external suppliers, to be recognized by their peers as a leader. Thinking outside the box and challenging current processes is expected and encouraged to accelerate new product introduction.

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Cost Savings. Ability to identify Total Cost of Ownership opportunities and execute negotiations, projects, and sourcing activities to deliver continuous cost savings.
• Identifying Key Suppliers. Reviewing and analyzing current suppliers and identifying and making recommendations based on technology.
• Risk Management. Defining concepts for risk and contract management and driving activities which include risk reduction, implementation of alternative sources
• Supplier Management. Organising regular business reviews to continuously rate the suppliers on defined KPI’s (supply chain performance, quality, cost competitiveness and technology road map) to monitor suppliers’ operations and to define measures to develop the suppliers.
• New Product Introduction. Partnering with R&D and manufacturing to support projects from pilot development through full-scale manufacturing in both regulated and non-regulated production facilities and participating in M&A and due diligence projects to advise stakeholders of technical opportunities and risks within the supply chain. Identifies opportunities to leverage supplier capabilities or insource.
• Data Analysis. Compiles spend data by site, supplier and technology and recommends ways to maximize or optimize spend.
• Technical Acumen. Maintaining a deep understanding of fluidics commodity and the validation plans to evaluation alternative vendors and materials.

Basic Qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Supply Chain or a related engineering discipline
• Prior expertise with metals commodity sourcing
• Contracting / supply agreement experience
• Strong negotiation skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• MS in engineering, Supply Chain or a related scientific discipline
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft office suite including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Experience in a biotech organization
• Good interpersonal, written and oral communication skills
• Knowledge of SAP and ERP / MRP systems a plus
• Ability to travel domestic and internationally
   

Please reach out to: amira.ravo@revvity.com if you need more details before applying.