Operational Buyer Diagnostic X-Ray (DXR)

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Job Title : Operational Buyer Diagnostic X-Ray (DXR)

You are responsible for

• Driving Customer Demand Fulfilment by ensuring material availability in the supply chain.

• Tactical material planning (forecast and handshake feedback) with internal and external suppliers and DCs, in an optimized way through the use of planning calculation methods.

• Operational material planning and Purchase Order management.

• Identifying supply risks and issues, drive mitigation actions and escalate if needed.

• Master data settings to enable touchless replenishment.

• Continuous harmonization and improvement of material supply processes ensuring Philips Global Processes execution.

• Monitoring and secure supplier delivery performance.

• Follow up material life cycle, securing in time availability and prevention of obsolescence.
  Inventory analysis and policy definition to secure material availability against minimum inventory investments.

• Managing inventory levels to stay within agreed targets for supplier managed and owned inventory.

• Supporting the Daily Management operating rhythm of the factory and monthly Sales & Operations Planning meetings.

• Connecting to and manage different stakeholders in the supply chain (planning, production, suppliers, R&D, etc) to ensure material availability.

• You will act as subject matter expert regarding procurement related procedures. You make sure these procedures are executed and if needed adjusted to ensure compliant way of working.

You are a part of

The DXR Operational Buying team within the Operational Material Management (OMM) team of Best, within Philips Health Systems. You report to the Operational Material Manager of DXR. You work closely together with this team, but also Procurement Engineers, Supplier Account Managers (SAM), Supplier Quality Engineers (SQE), R&D and last-but-not least with the many suppliers of Factory Best.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Must have Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or relevant fields.

• Must have 3-5 years experience in similar (process industry) supply chains.

• Excellent communication skills in English is a must. Dutch is good to have.

• Experience with ERP is a must have, SAP is preferred.

• Must have MS office experience, especially excel.

• You have good analytical skills.

• You are a teamplayer and have a can-do mentality.

In return, we offer you

An exciting role in our organization within Best, in which you will be responsible together with your peers for driving the supply chain process of the Best operations site. You will be working at one of the main Operations sites within Philips, a great and inspiring place for your future career. Philips will offer a path towards your most rewarding career, with opportunities to show your skills and develop yourself in many ways.

How we work at Philips

Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way. Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.

We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.

We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.