Strategic Procurement Manager

Strategic Procurement Manager

In this role, you will be responsible for:

Managing a €75M spend across critical & high-tech Image Chain products for Philips medical therapy and diagnostic systems, e.g. Interventional Guided Therapy, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), and Digital Pathology.

Image Chain products are dedicated to Philips’ factories and service organizations, directly impacting the performance, reliability, and competitiveness of our medical therapy and imaging solutions.

You will work closely with key suppliers and internal stakeholders, ensuring optimal supplier performance, cost efficiency and strategic alignment with business objectives.

Click apply and join our team if you have a proven track record in managing high-spend, high-dependency supplier relationships, preferably in industries with complex supply chains (e.g., medical devices, automotive, aerospace....).

You are responsible for

• Manage (and develop long-term) relationships with assigned (preferred strategic) suppliers
• Identify supplier capabilities, performance, and technologies through competitive assessments and benchmarking of existing and potential suppliers.
• Lead business review meetings and supplier evaluations for the assigned scope.
• Influence supplier leadership to align their business practices with Philips business requirements, including engaging with C-level executives
• Drive supplier operational excellence by influencing leadership teams, aligning business practices, and overseeing structural improvements in quality, supply chain, technology, and cost efficiency.
• Mitigate risks related to conformity, quality, and regulatory standards.
• Lead price negotiations for assigned supplier portfolio, including gathering relevant benchmark data, supplier market intelligence
• Own end-of-the-end supplier agreements, including development, execution, and monitoring.
• Work closely with R&D, Operations, Product Sourcing, Supplier Quality, Finance, Legal etc. to align supplier performance with strategic priorities.
• Act as the orchestrator for cross-functional teams, ensuring seamless execution of supply chain and procurement strategies.
• The end-to-end management of a challenging Image Chain product portfolio to enhance our Health Systems offering.
• In close collaboration with the Business Units, the definition and implementation of the global procurement strategy and policy with a 3–5-year sightline to drive impact for both the bottom and top line

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in a relevant domain (business, procurement, economics, etch)
• Preferably 8–10+ years in procurement, in industries with complex supply chains (medical devices, automotive, aerospace ...).
• Experience in a production environment (Medical/FDA and/or EU-MDR regulated preferred)
• Strong business acumen and a can-do attitude to deliver under high pressure.
• Proven track record of:
• • driving supplier performance transformations and managing high-spend, high-dependency supplier relationships.
  • Strong negotiation -, stakeholder management – and influencing skills (both at operational and executive levels)
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and management skills to drive category-related strategic objectives from end to end
  • Change leadership skills within a complex, global matrix organization
  • Lead & coordinate cross-functional teams effectively (“being the orchestrator of the team”)

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.This role is office-based.

About Philips

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