Material Planner / Buyer

About the role

As a Materials Planner / Buyer at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you'll contribute to ensuring the reliable flow of materials through our production cycle to enable scientific discoveries. You'll work closely with suppliers and cross‑functional teams to secure material availability, manage purchase orders and delivery schedules, and proactively address shortages or supply risks.

Key responsibilities

• Take end‑to‑end ownership of material supply within the assigned scope, balancing availability, supplier performance and business priorities.
• Manage material planning and purchasing activities, including MRP requirements, purchase orders, supplier commitments and planning exceptions.
• Proactively manage shortages, past‑due deliveries, pull‑ins, push‑outs and cancellations, driving issues to resolution.
• Own supplier engagement, drive performance, and implement recovery actions with challenging or underperforming suppliers.
• Identify supply risks and improvement opportunities, use data to understand root causes and implement practical solutions.
• Collaborate across Supply Chain, Production, Procurement and other functions to resolve issues and improve overall performance.

Required profile

• At least 3 years of hands‑on ERP experience in purchasing, material planning or a related supply‑chain role.
• End‑to‑end supply‑chain understanding and ability to assess the wider impact of planning and purchasing decisions.
• Experience managing suppliers, including challenging or underperforming ones.
• Advanced communication skills in English, both written and spoken.

Required skills

• ERP systems (e.g., SAP)
• SAP experience
• MRP (Material Requirements Planning) processes