Regional Planner EMEA - Philips - Best

Regional Planner EMEA at Philips

In this role, you have the opportunity

to join the Regional Service Parts Fulfillment team, as part of the Service Parts Supply Chain (SPS) organization. The primary responsibility of the Service Parts Supply Chain is to patients, clinicians and engineers who rely on healthcare equipment that works. The key purpose is to provide them with the right part when and where they need it – every time.

A strong local stocking plan is a strategic requirement for Service Delivery and as the Regional Service Parts Planner you will drive this plan.

You are responsible for:

• Partnering with colleagues within the SPS regional team, SPS Strategic planning, Business, Markets, SPS Supply management, SPS Master data, SPS ASAP desk, and other disciplines to secure parts availability in your region
• Managing the Planning Process: demand forecasting and stock target setting in your regional locations
• Utilizing the advanced planning tool to periodically validate and update the parts planning, follow-up on planning alerts, and master data management
• Analyzing Stock-outs and Material Availability misses, in order to create and execute on corrective actions and preventive action plans
• Represent SPS Planning in the SPS regional team to ensure impact on service parts are considered and to execute on plan
• Being a contact person in case of escalation regions on customer service level requirements
• Manage overall inventory in your region, including inventory on shelf and aligning with market teams on market managed inventory
• Participate in projects as needed, contributing to structural improvements on SPS priorities

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

• Master or Bachelor’s Degree with Supply Chain Planning and/or Supply Chain operations
• At least 5-8 years of working experience in Supply Chain operations, preferably at large company in an international environment
• Fluency in English
• Strong analytical capabilities, clear communicator, standout colleague
• Detail oriented and able to make clear decisions with available information
• Experience in working with a Supply Chain Planning tool, SPM preferred
• An excellent understanding of SAP ERP Systems and Data
• Experience within Customer Service and Healthcare industry is preferred
• Creativeness, thinking in solutions and driving implementation
• Experience with LEAN deployment is preferred

Please note: For this position we do not offer relocation support.

In return, we offer you

A path towards your most rewarding career. Succeeding in this role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long-term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities. Furthermore, Philips University is available to all employees for learning and development opportunities.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to build a healthier society through meaningful work, passionate about improving 2.5 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.

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.