Director, Global Sourcing in Pontyclun

Location: Cardiff, Llantrisant

Revvity is a developer and provider of end‑to‑end solutions designed to help scientists, researchers, and clinicians solve the world’s greatest health challenges. Our team of 11,000+ colleagues from around the globe are vital to our success and help push boundaries in pursuit of better human health.

Responsibilities

• Partner with instruments operations leaders and provide strategic sourcing expertise to global procurement teams.
• Develop strategic alliances with existing suppliers, identify new suppliers, drive supplier performance and cultivate redundancy and resiliency across the instrument supply chain.
• Lead complex, multi‑faceted pricing and contract negotiations focusing on price productivity, cash‑flow terms optimisation, inventory management, supply assurance, quality, and delivery.
• Develop, implement, and execute procurement strategy, process, and policies.
• Identify Total Cost of Ownership opportunities and execute negotiations, projects, and sourcing activities to deliver continuous cost savings.
• Ensure supply‑chain resilience of instruments for revenue protection.
• Review and analyse current suppliers and provide technology‑based recommendations.
• Define risk and contract management concepts and drive activities to reduce risk, including implementation of alternative sources.
• Organise regular business reviews to rate suppliers on defined KPIs (supply‑chain performance, quality, cost‑competitiveness, technology roadmap).
• Partner with R&D and manufacturing to support projects from pilot development through full‑scale manufacturing in regulated and non‑regulated facilities.
• Compile spend data by site, supplier and technology and recommend ways to maximise or optimise spend.
• Maintain deep understanding of fluidics commodity and validation plans to evaluate alternative vendors and materials.
• Develop and maintain processes and methods that comply with all safety, ISO / regulatory, and company requirements/guidelines.
• Strategically manage and optimise the supply network (pooled direct).
• Implement material‑field specific benchmarking and best‑practice sharing with continental/regional organisations, external partners and competitors.
• Select, manage, assess, develop and coach employees in the area of responsibility to ensure long‑term corporate success with a motivated staff.
• Define and monitor targets and KPIs for the commodity business field.
• Responsibly manage cost‑reduction metrics and performance against those metrics.
• Act as the direct partner link to business‑unit and corporate‑function management, ensuring active communication and information exchange with all parties.

Basic Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in Life Sciences and Diagnostics in various functions and several areas of SCM, Procurement or Strategy, including cross‑functional exposure.
• Proven track‑record in leading a strategic procurement function in a global environment.
• Indirect spend experience preferred.
• At least 5 years of functional and disciplinary leadership responsibility.
• Ability to travel up to 20% of the time, both domestically and internationally.
• Collaborate globally with stakeholders and may support projects/priorities/meetings during non‑standard working hours.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated general management ability to lead a global organisation.
• International business exposure mandatory; international work experience desirable.
• Proven track record in creating and enhancing effective commodity teams to drive strategic initiatives.
• Experience in cost‑value engineering, supplier innovation management and corporate sourcing risk management programmes.
• Ability to multi‑task, respond to tight deadlines and provide quick turnaround times.
• Commodity experience and demonstrated success driving cost reduction through global supply chain.
• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain / Operations Management or equivalent experience required; master’s degree preferred.
• Exceptional communicator of information, opinions, observations and conclusions to drive actions.
• Demonstrates initiative and resourcefulness; self‑managed and self‑motivated.
• Ability to make decisions under pressure and against tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage priorities and stay on top of critical responsibilities.

Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time.