Director, Supply Chain

ThermoFisher Scientific; Madison (WI); On-site; USD 165,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental plans

Vision plan

Employee assistance and family support

PTO and holidays

Retirement and savings plan

ESPP stock purchase plan

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Thermo Fisher Scientific is seeking a Director to lead the CAD global supply chain, aligning demand, supply, capacity, and network decisions across sites. You’ll drive end-to-end planning, inventory strategy, and service levels while building a digitally capable team.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, Lean practices, and the adoption of digital planning capabilities to improve decision quality and performance across the division.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, business, engineering, or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• Substantial progressive experience in supply chain, operations, or integrated business planning with leadership responsibility.
• Experience leading demand and supply planning, SIOP or equivalent processes, inventory strategy, order fulfillment, and cross-functional execution.
• Experience translating business objectives into operational plans, measurable outcomes, and clear executive-level recommendations.
• Ability to lead teams through change and influence without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and people-leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Set division supply-chain strategy translating CAD business strategy into an integrated roadmap and priorities.
• Lead integrated planning and execution connecting mid- and long-range plans to near-term actions.
• Improve customer fulfillment and end-to-end order-management processes and visibility.
• Optimize inventory, cash, and supply risk with governance and financial forecasting.
• Build a high-performing, digitally capable team and foster an inclusive, Lean-driven culture.

Skills

Demand and supply planning

SIOP / S&OE

Strategic leadership

Cross-functional collaboration

Analytical thinking

Change leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, business, engineering, or related discipline

Graduate degree or professional certification

Tools

ERP systems

Advanced planning software

BI & workflow automation tools

Job description

Work Schedule

Standard (Mon-Fri)

Environmental Conditions

Office

Job Description

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.

Role purpose

The Director will lead the Chemical Analysis Division global supply chain organization to deliver reliable customer fulfillment, disciplined working-capital performance, and scalable growth. Set direction for end-to-end planning and execution across the division, connecting demand, supply, capacity, inventory, order management, and network decisions. Build the processes, data, capabilities, and cross-functional accountability that turn supply-chain insight into measurable business outcomes.

Key responsibilities

Set division supply-chain strategy

• Translate CAD business strategy into an integrated supply-chain roadmap, operating priorities, and resource choices; balance customer service, revenue, cost, cash, resilience, and risk.
• Build strong partnerships with commercial, operations, finance, procurement, product management, customer service, IT, quality, and global functions.

Lead integrated planning and execution

• Own and continually improve CAD Sales, Inventory and Operations Planning (SIOP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE), linking mid- and long-range plans to near-term commitments and recovery actions.
• Advance demand planning, forecast segmentation, scenario planning, capacity modeling, and supply planning across sites and product families; ensure plans reflect constraints, lead times, and customer priorities.
• Lead planning-system and data-readiness initiatives, including adoption of digital planning capabilities, to improve decision quality and operating consistency.

Improve customer fulfillment and order management

• Lead end-to-end order-management and backlog processes to improve lead-time performance, promise-date accuracy, order visibility, and delivery reliability.
• Partner with sites and customer-facing teams to identify supply risks early and drive mitigation plans for shortages, holds, capacity constraints, and demand changes.
• Use structured performance reviews and root-cause problem solving to improve on-time delivery, order fill, service-parts availability, and the quality of customer communication.

Optimize inventory, cash, and supply risk

• Develop an integrated inventory strategy that segments products and materials by demand, service needs, supply risk, and lifecycle stage, and sets appropriate stocking and positioning policies.
• Balance working capital, days of supply, excess and obsolete exposure, and customer-service requirements; connect inventory decisions to SIOP, capacity, sourcing, and service outcomes.
• Lead inventory governance, entitlement and safety-stock reviews, excess and obsolete prevention and disposition, inventory balancing, and financial forecasting in partnership with Finance and operations.

Build a high-performing, digitally capable team

• Lead, develop, and retain a capable supply-chain team; clarify roles, build succession and functional depth, and align talent and capacity to the division roadmap.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative environment rooted in Thermo Fisher Scientific’s 4i Values; set clear expectations and encourage ownership, learning, and constructive challenge.
• Embed PPI, Lean, and structured problem solving into daily work; use automation, analytics, and AI where appropriate to remove waste and improve planning and execution.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, operations, business, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Substantial progressive experience in supply chain, operations, or integrated business planning, including leadership responsibility in a complex, multi-site environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading demand and supply planning, SIOP or equivalent processes, inventory strategy, order fulfillment, and cross-functional execution.
• Experience translating business objectives into operational plans, measurable outcomes, and clear executive-level recommendations.
• Ability to lead teams through change, build partnerships across organizational boundaries, and influence without direct authority.
• Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and people-leadership skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Graduate degree or relevant professional certification in supply chain, planning, or operations.
• Experience with ERP, advanced planning, business intelligence, and workflow automation tools; experience implementing planning technology is an advantage.
• Experience in a global manufacturing, instrumentation, life science, or other regulated product environment.
• Working knowledge of continuous-improvement methods such as PPI, Lean, A3, and root-cause corrective action.

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range estimated for this position based in Massachusetts is $164,500.00–$230,000.00.

This position may also be eligible to receive a variable annual bonus based on company, team, and/or individual performance results in accordance with company policy. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package that our U.S. colleagues and their families can count on, which includes:

• A choice of national medical and dental plans, and a national vision plan, including health incentive programs
• Employee assistance and family support programs, including commuter benefits and tuition reimbursement
• At least 120 hours paid time off (PTO), 10 paid holidays annually, paid parental leave (3 weeks for bonding and 8 weeks for caregiver leave), accident and life insurance, and short- and long-term disability in accordance with company policy
• Retirement and savings programs, such as our competitive 401(k) U.S. retirement savings plan
• Employees’ Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) offers eligible colleagues the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount

For more information on our benefits, please visit: https://jobs.thermofisher.com/global/en/total-rewards

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.