Operational Buyer
Your challenge
This exciting role is a great opportunity for a supply chain professional. You will have an important role in managing a set of international suppliers and balancing the correct levels of inventory to ensure product availability in the various factories in Best. Your mission is to secure material availability of components used in our Image Guided Therapy (IGT) business.
You are responsible for partnering across the supply chain to ensure material availability for a defined set of suppliers while minimizing both inventory and excess & obsolete stock.
Your responsibilities are to:
Drives Customer Demand Fulfilment by ensuring material availability in the supply chain.
Manage inventory levels to stay within agreed targets (LSL and USL) for supplier managed and owned inventory (SMI/SMOI).
Place and track Purchase Orders (POs).
Follow up on deliveries and monitor supplier delivery performance (VMI/CLIP).
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
Process rejects in the factory and ensure swift turn-around.
Connect to and manage different stakeholders in the supply chain (planning, production, suppliers, R&D, etc) to ensure material availability.
Prepare and support the Daily Management operating rhythm of the factory and monthly Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) meetings.
Perform and report on supplier reviews, e.g .monthly performance review (MPR), Business Review Meeting (BRM).
Excellent relationship management both internally and externally
Pro-actively drive supply chain improvements.
Support supplier transfer activities.
Tactical forecast and handshake feedback with internal and external suppliers and DCs.
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.
You are a part of
You will be working in the Operational Material Management (OMM) team of Best, within Philips Health Systems. This team consists of Operational Buyers/Planners and End-Of-Life Analysts. You report into the procurement manager. You work closely together with this team, but also with other key stakeholders in other functions such as Procurement Engineers from the business unit, Supplier Account Managers, R&D experts, Supplier Quality Engineers, Quality Engineers, Warehousing Engineers, 3PL, as well as your key contacts for the many suppliers of Factory Best.
To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience
Minimum of Bachelors degree in a relevant industrial, operational, supply chain management or business administration discipline.
2-3 years experience in similar (process industry) supply chains.
Excellent analytical skills and highly proficient in excel, knowledge of SAP is a plus.
Experience with a dynamic and highly technological supply chain is a plus.
Self-starting, pro-active, make-it-happen mentality, don’t give up before committed task is done, able to get things done from people.
End to end Ownership
Detail oriented, analytic, and problem-solving skills.
Can do mentality, able to challenge suppliers on the status quo.
Lean experience is considered a plus.
A good communicator on different organizational levels.
Dutch proficiency and English is a must.
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How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. This is an office based role. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
Compensation & Benefits
Doing meaningful work should come with fair, transparent rewards. The base salary range for this role is €48.611 Gross – €81.018 Gross. We determine pay within the range using objective factors, like the skills the role requires, your relevant experience and the responsibility you'll have in this role, alongside internal equity and local market considerations. This role is eligible for maximum 3% bonus, with your rewards linked to KPIs/company results. We’ll share the full approach with you during the interview process, so you can make a clear, informed decision.
Benefits include:
Health and well-being programs: to support you mentally and physically, allowing you to stay energized and be your best at work and beyond;
Career growth: access to a wide range of tools and resources to further your career, including a personal development budget, training and coaching;
Annual leave: 25 days with the option of purchasing up to 20 extra days per year;
Financial incentive: individual bonus based on personal performance and/or Philips' annual results;
Additional benefits: solid company pension scheme, attractive collective health insurance package and opportunity to buy Philips shares and products with a discount.
About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here .
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