Graduate Strategic Sourcing Agent - 12 Months Fixed Term Contact in Portsmouth

Bring more to life. Are you ready to accelerate your potential and make a real difference within life sciences, diagnostics and biotechnology? At Pall Corporation, one of Danaher’s 15+ operating companies, our work saves lives—and we’re all united by a shared commitment to innovate for tangible impact. You’ll thrive in a culture of belonging where you and your unique viewpoint matter. And by harnessing Danaher’s system of continuous improvement, you help turn ideas into impact – innovating at the speed of life.

As a global leader in high-tech filtration, separation, and purification, Pall Corporation thrives on helping our customers solve their toughest challenges. Our products serve diverse, global customer needs across a wide range of applications to advance health, safety and environmentally responsible technologies. From airplane engines to hydraulic systems, scotch to smartphones, OLED screens to paper—everyday Pall is there, helping protect critical operating assets, improve product quality, minimize emissions and waste, and safeguard health. For the exponentially curious, Pall is a place where you can thrive and amplify your impact on the world. Find what drives you on a team with a more than 75-year history of discovery, determination, and innovation.

The Strategic Sourcing Agent is responsible for proactively identifying, assessing, and mitigating supplier-related risks associated with material obsolescence, end-of-life (EOL), supplier-driven material changes, and broader supply continuity threats. The role combines strategic sourcing, supplier risk management, and change governance to ensure financially sound, compliant, and resilient supply decisions across the product lifecycle.

The role partners closely with Materials, Planning, Sourcing, Operations, and Regional Supply Chain leaders to architect, deploy, and sustain a disciplined supply chain operating system using DBS, DMS, and structured problem solving. This position is part of the global operations organization, and will be on-site.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Monitor supplier notifications (EOL/LTB, discontinuations, and technology roadmap changes) and lead mitigation planning (lifetime buys, alternates, redesign, and requalification) with marketing and commodity managers.
• Ensure supplier-driven material and process changes are reviewed and approved, rejected, or mitigated in accordance with governance, contracts, and customer requirements.
• Chair cross-functional forums to evaluate obsolescence- or supplier-change-driven replacements, develop business cases, and drive timely decisions.
• Document decisions, approvals, and mitigations, and maintain data integrity across ERP, PLM, and supplier management systems.
• Establish, maintain, and continuously improve supplier risk, obsolescence, and material change management processes to reduce lifecycle risk and improve decision speed/quality using DBS tools.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, operations, supply chain management, or engineering.
• 3+ years of experience in supply chain operations within a manufacturing environment.
• 3+ years of experience driving continuous improvement using Lean, KPIs, and MRP‑based ERP systems to improve OTD, lead time, cost, inventory, and supplier performance.
• Flexible in adapting working hours to meet the demands of global operations and stakeholder needs.
• Travel Requirements: ability to travel domestically and internationally up to 10%.

It would be a plus if you also possess previous experience in:

• Ability to interpret product Bill of Materials (BOM's) and Drawings.
• Experience in SAP/SAP Analytics Cloud is preferred, and experience utilizing electronic sourcing tools (D&B, Procurement IQ, Amplifi Pro, resilinc, EcoVadis).
• Working knowledge of MS products including Excel (queries, pivot tables and v lookup) and comfortable handling large complex data sets.
• Microsoft PowerBi Experience.

Pall Corporation, a Danaher operating company, offers a broad array of comprehensive, competitive benefit programs that add value to our lives. Whether it’s a health care program or paid time off, our programs contribute to life beyond the job. Check out our benefits at Danaher Benefits Info.

Join our winning team today. Together, we’ll accelerate the real-life impact of tomorrow’s science and technology. We partner with customers across the globe to help them solve their most complex challenges, architecting solutions that bring the power of science to life.

For more information, visit www.danaher.com.