Procurement Project Manager

Job Title Procurement Project Manager Job Description #EOS #PHILIN Job title: Procurement Project Manager Your role: Job Responsibilities: • Supports in assembling and engaging suppliers on project Bill of Materials (BoM) Requests for Proposal (RFPs), ensuring comprehensive supplier involvement. • Works under general supervision, conducting Design for Excellence (DfX) activities to identify opportunities for improving product cost, quality, and risk, ensuring optimal product performance. • Supports in organizing early supplier innovation events to involve suppliers at the beginning stages of the product innovation process, fostering collaboration and new ideas. • Utilizes technical insights to influence design specifications, ensures supplier and part capability and ensures cost competitiveness. • Collaborates with Innovation and Engineering and integrate supplier innovations into products to optimize propositions, delivering the best value for Philips and its customers. • Develops innovative solutions to simplify, standardize, or platform components or assemblies across the portfolio, enhancing efficiency and consistency. • Helps to develop ideas and opportunities for product cost reduction and quality improvement. • Provides cost reduction, quality improvement, and risk reduction through proactive supplier engagement in Advanced Development and New Product Development projects. • Provides the business with valuable product and supply base insights, leveraging engineering expertise to support strategic decision-making and ensuring alignment with overall business objectives. • Understands and apply the principles of Design for Excellence (DfX), Cost Engineering, and materials/goods flow, along with knowledge of IT systems related to product inputs connected to 12 NC's. • Participates in Cost down, Quality up, and risk reduction projects, managing and reporting results within project teams, significantly impacting the sourcing and cost price of components or product modules in new product introductions. . You're the right fit if: Minimum required Experience: Minimum 7 years of experience with Bachelor's in areas such as Procurement, Purchasing, Supply Chain Management, Engineering, Operations, Research & Development, Quality, Mechanical Engineering or equivalent OR no prior experience required with Master's Degree. Minimum required Education: Bachelor's Degree/ Vocational Education in Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Operations, Business or equivalent. Preferred Experience: Procurement / Purchasing / Strategic sourcing Preferred Certification: CPIM Preferred Skills: • Quality Specifications • Project Management • Supply Chain Management (SCM) • Risk Management • Procurement / Purchasing • Project Management • Supply Chain Management (SCM) • Risk Management • Costs Engineering • Costs Reduction • VAVE • DfX Methodology • Quality Specifications • Supplier Evaluation Methodologies • Supplier Relationship Management • Business Acumen • Manufacturing Processes • Lean Methodologies • Costs Engineering • DfX Methodology • Supplier Evaluation Methodologies • Supplier Relationship Management • Business Acumen How we work together We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations. Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role. About Philips We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. • Learn more about our business. • Discover our rich and exciting history. • Learn more about our purpose. 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. At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success. 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