Sr. Sourcing Manager – Software and Cloud Services

Sr. Sourcing Manager – Software and Cloud Services at Philips

Job Description

Lead sourcing activities across the AWS Cloudification partnership and the Enterprise Informatics software business including vendor engagement, cross-functional coordination and cost optimization while leveraging your expertise in Cloud and Software.

Your role:

• Develop and execute strategic sourcing plans for cloud services, software, and AWS credit utilization, ensuring cost efficiency and alignment with business needs.
• Drive early supplier engagement in Informatics and software development projects.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across R&D, S&SD, Product Management, IT, Legal and Intellectual Property & Standards (IP&S) to drive early supplier engagement and inform make-buy-partner strategies.
• Manage AWS partnership obligations by tracking attestations, aligning credit usage, and reporting on key milestones to maximize the value of cloud investments.
• Negotiate with cloud vendors, software providers, and Global System Integrators (GSIs) to support Philips' digital transformation goals.
• Lead cost optimization initiatives through best practices for software procurement, leveraging cloud procurement practices, managing the AWS Partner Portal, and ensuring compliance, risk mitigation, and security best practices in informatics procurement.

You're the right fit:

• You’ve acquired 7+ years of experience in software procurement, cloud services sourcing, or enterprise IT procurement as an individual contributor, with a proven track record of stakeholder alignment across business units such as R&D, IT, Finance, and Procurement.
• Your skills include strong expertise in Informatics and Cloud technologies, with hands-on experience negotiating SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS contracts. Bonus: Prior experience at a major cloud provider or GSI, along with knowledge of cloud security, compliance, and risk management.
• You have a degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
• You’re an excellent communicator who’s comfortable navigating ambiguity.
• You have strong project management and cross-functional collaboration skills, fluent in English (additional languages are a plus), and capable of driving cost optimization strategies in a cloud and informatics environment.
• You have a solid understanding of cloud service offerings, pricing models, and enterprise agreements, with the ability to manage vendor negotiations and maximize partnership value.

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.​

This role is an office role.

The office location of this role can be Amsterdam, Eindhoven, or Best.

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.

• Embrace the unexpected

Over 125 years ago, Frederik and Gerard Philips started a small light bulb company in Eindhoven. Little did they realize that it would become a global force of innovation, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide. But it did.

Today, Philips is a world leading health technology company with a vision to make life better for people worldwide through meaningful innovation. Making good on this promise depends on our passionate, inspirational, collaborative and diverse team.

We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more. Like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while transforming themselves personally and professionally.

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's an experience filled with unexpected moments that will transform you in lasting and positive ways. Help us improve the world for the better while building a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

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