Senior Program Manager, Procurement Category Strategy & Performance Management

Thermo Fisher ScientificBudapest, HungaryonsiteSalary not postedView the original posting at Thermo Fisher Scientific ↗

Work Schedule Standard Office Hours (40/wk) Environmental Conditions Office Job Description 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 130,000 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 Senior Program Manager, Procurement Category Strategy & Performance Management serves as a core leader within the Procurement Enablement function, responsible for building scalable processes, governance, planning capabilities, and performance management disciplines across the Procurement organization. Leading a team of program managers, you will implement enterprise-wide initiatives that strengthen category planning, standardize procurement governance, improve data and taxonomy consistency, and enhance performance visibility. Working across a highly matrixed global environment, you will partner with Procurement, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Digital, and Business leaders to deliver scalable capabilities that improve decision-making, execution, and business outcomes. What will you do? Enterprise Program Leadership Lead enterprise-wide Procurement Enablement initiatives from strategy through execution, adoption, and continuous improvement Develop and manage multi-year roadmaps aligned with Procurement transformation priorities and business objectives Establish governance frameworks, operating models, prioritization methodologies, and execution standards Apply continuous improvement methodologies to improve scalability, consistency, and execution effectiveness Category Strategy Enablement Develop and implement standardized category strategy frameworks across global Procurement categories Partner with Category Managers and Procurement leaders to improve strategic planning, category maturity, and execution alignment Standardize category planning methodologies, templates, governance processes, and best practices Enable Procurement teams to strengthen strategic category management capabilities and long-term value creation Support procurement transformation initiatives focused on sourcing effectiveness, operating model maturity, and organizational capability development Governance & Performance Management Lead procurement governance initiatives that improve performance transparency, accountability, and decision-making Develop executive dashboards, scorecards, KPI frameworks, and reporting processes Drive procurement taxonomy standardization, master data governance, and reporting consistency across systems and business units Partner with Digital, Data & Analytics, and Procurement Operations teams to improve data quality and reporting capabilities Establish governance forums, performance reviews, and escalation processes that strengthen execution discipline Stakeholder Leadership & Influence Influence and align senior leaders across Procurement, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Digital, Sustainability, and Business functions Lead executive governance reviews, strategic planning discussions, and cross-functional decision-making forums Serve as a strategic partner between Procurement leadership, category teams, and enterprise stakeholders Communicate program progress, business outcomes, risks, and opportunities to executive audiences Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to improve procurement effectiveness through process optimization, standardization, digital enablement, and analytics Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase planning consistency, operational efficiency, and organizational sca

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