Supply Chain Project Manager (All genders)

Job Title

Supply Chain Project Manager (All genders)

Job Description

Supply Chain Project Manager

As a Supply Chain Project Manager, you will initiate, plan and execute projects in multi‐discipline areas in accordance with agreed conditions on specification, time, cost and resources

Your role:

• Gaining agreements on and achieving project goals and objectives, balancing, and managing the project scope (including requirements), schedule, budget, quality, resources, and risks

• Monitoring the business case during project execution with an outcome-oriented view focusing on the maximization of the project benefits and business impact

• Leading diverse project team(s), empowering the team members to become efficient and effective.

• Building partnerships with the project’s stakeholders (both internal and external), leverage them to achieve organizational goals, and able to influence their opinions and negotiate effective solutions.

• Investigating customer expectations and responding to their feedback

• Contextualizing organizational goals and shifts, recognizing opportunities, and turning those into business value

• Monitoring project activities, appropriately balancing risk taking and issue escalation and setting up detailed progress / escalation reports (including suggested corrective actions) for the project steering team.

• Ensuring Philips standards (Process/Systems/Way‐of‐Working) are adopted as outlined in Philips business System (PBS) and in the local Management System based on Philips Excellence Process Framework (PEPF)

• Leading the implementation of the Consumables business strategy for Supply chain

Required competencies.

Our Philips Behaviors

• Our Professional Competencies consisting of 10 Entrepreneurial skills (Emotional Intelligence, Ownership & Commitment, Philips Leadership (Asks), Stakeholder Partnership, Network Performance, business Acumen, Customer Centricity, Judgment, Risk Management and Learning Agility)

• Leading & Supervising Skills and process‐oriented project. Ability to lead multiple concurrent projects and prioritize own work based on business impact and urgency.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills across functions and seniority levels, with high organizational sensitivity.

• Project Management Methodologies & Frameworks

• Business/Domain specific competencies (optional)

• Ability to learn fast and to rapidly understand new processes, systems, and business contexts

• Driven, proactive, and outcome‑oriented, with a strong sense of ownership.

• Leveraging data and fact-based techniques throughout projects, to identify key pain points in current state, monitor progress of change initiatives, and monitor performance in the future state for continuous improvement

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering or equivalent.

• 10 years+ of relevant working experience, including experience of leading workstreams within projects from idea through implementation with evidence of business

• Knowledge and experience in integrated Supply Chain Management for at least 3-5 years

• Change Management / Project Management Methodologies & Frameworks knowledge

• Strong communication, stakeholder Engagement, Program Governance and Program Life Cycle Management skills

• Proven track record in transformation and change initiatives, successfully implementing and sustaining new standards in the organization 

• Experience in working with new process and/or new IT development is a pre-requisite

• Experience in Problem Solving Technique, Structured problem‑solving mindset with the ability to translate ambiguity into action.

• Ability to manage business performance management.

• Fluent English language (both oral and written), good command of German language is a plus

How we work at Philips
This is a hybrid role with minimum 3 days a week in the office.

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.