Procurement Project Manager

Job Title

Procurement Project Manager

Job Description

Your role:

• Leads complex and integral procurement projects, guiding them from inception to successful implementation, aligning them with Philips' organizational strategy across multiple business domains and external stakeholders and applies advanced understanding of entrepreneurial skills and supports the entrepreneurial environment and follows up on initiatives.
• Initiates, organizes, and implements procurement projects and programs, driving strategic impact and fostering efficiency in procurement processes, working under limited supervision.
  Identifies kaizen events and implements process improvement initiatives to enhance productivity and streamline procurement operations, ensuring continuous enhancement of practices.
• Develops and maintains comprehensive project management plans, providing clear direction to project teams, and serving as the primary representative in project discussions and decision-making processes.
• Prepares and implements projects in multidisciplinary areas, meticulously adhering to specifications, timelines, and resource allocations to achieve project objectives effectively.
• Crafts compelling business cases for productivity enhancements, collaborating across functions to ensure alignment and garner support for proposed improvements.
• Manages the savings funnel, diligently tracking cost-saving opportunities and optimizing procurement expenditure in line with organizational goals.
• Supports the Product Sourcing Engineer in supplier engagement activities, facilitating early supplier involvement, selection processes, and cost tracking for assigned products.
• Handles procurement activities at suppliers, ensuring alignment with project requirements and overall procurement strategies, and managing related fields in the Sourcing Plan.
• Engages in and supports phase-in and phase-out planning for new product introductions and lifecycle management activities, ensuring seamless transitions and continuity in procurement operation

You're the right fit if:

• Strong motivation and learning mindset.
• Exposure to or strong interest in AI / digital topics, with willingness to grow in this area.
• Basic procurement understanding, with the ability to quickly develop core procurement skills.

• Solid procurement background with hands‑on experience 10+ years in:
  • Contract negotiation
  • Price negotiation
  • Open‑book cost calculations
  • Understanding full cost breakdowns line by line
  • MOQ logic and pricing mechanisms
• Experience managing or contributing to large procurement projects, including product launches.
• Ability to challenge stakeholders, especially marketing, on product complexity, bundling, and cost impact.
• Comfortable making fast, independent decisions in a dynamic environment.

• Ability to work in short development cycles and manage frequent product changes.
• Excellent English (daily working language in an international team).

• Exposure to AI or digital transformation in procurement.

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.

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.
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• 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.

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