Marketing Procurement Specialist

Thermofisher Scientific; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a detail-oriented Marketing Procurement Coordinator in Birmingham to support vendor management for the Creative Shared Services team. You will source and onboard new vendors for translation services, ensuring cost, schedule, and scope are clearly defined and met.

You will coordinate end-to-end translation and creative service sourcing across multiple languages for European regions, track budgets, and prepare statements of work for relevant projects, while

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing or related field.
• 3–5 years of procurement or marketing operations experience.
• Experience with translation services is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate end-to-end translation service sourcing for marketing projects.
• Manage vendor onboarding, costs, and timelines.
• Track budgets and create statements of work for projects.
• Collaborate with internal teams and external agencies.

Skills

Ability to work under pressure

Independent worker

Relationship-building

Prioritization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Marketing

Tools

Workfront

Job description

We are seeking a detail-oriented Marketing Procurement Coordinator to support vendor management for the Creative Shared Services team. Discover Impactful Work: This position will support our relationships with our internal and external vendors, sourcing and on-boarding new vendors as the need arises and manage processes for translation services for creative projects-inclusive of cost negotiations, scheduling and research, vetting and set-up of new vendors.,

• Provide end-to-end translation service sourcing of Marketing projects in multiple languages to support European regions, capturing budget information, and ensuring that projects are completed efficiently and on time.
• Provide creative service sourcing, partnering with internal team and external agencies to ensure that scope, costs and timelines are clearly identified and met. Effectively communicate any budget overages ensuring approval prior to work completed.
• Provide cost tracking for all outside services, create and update statement of work documents for all applicable projects.
• Establish relationships and partner with external vendors for outside services, onboarding new vendors when needed.

Experience

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, web, or related field or equivalent work experience
• Minimum 3-5 years' related experience
• Workfront project management system experience is a plus

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• Ability to perform under pressure and thrive in fast-paced environments
• Able to work independently and proactively, identifying issues and raising them to management, as well as offering potential solutions
• Strong relationship building skills and the ability to work with multiple team members globally in a collaborative and professional way
• Ability to prioritize multiple tasks and work to meet deadlines.

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you'll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our global teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while helping to take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world's toughest challenges, like protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe or helping find cures for cancer.