Head of Supply Chain, Personal Health Europe Region

Lead the Supply Chain and Operations for Personal Health in Europe

As the Head of Supply Chain and Operations Personal Health Europe, you will be responsible for the demand planning, inventory availability, order flow, and delivery of products to the customers and consumers, and optimizing the goods flow in the region. Furthermore, you will lead the development of the supply chain and operations in alignment with the product-market combinations found in the region. You will be part of the global Personal Health Supply Chain Leadership Team, where you influence and collaborate on the key priorities for the Europe region, as well as global supply chain leverage across Philips in general and Personal Health specifically. Next, you will be part of the Personal Health Western Europe and CEE Region Leadership Team.

Your role:

• Define and implement the medium-term strategy that enables competitive product availability and service delivery in the Europe region.
• Performance in the region covering Demand Planning, Inventory Availability, Service Delivery, Costs, and Cash (Inventory & Order processing).
• Identify opportunities for performance improvement, both within the own organization and across the broader Europe and PH ISC organization.
• Drive the quality of demand and S&OP planning in the Europe region. Lead the consistent communication of the demand signal toward factories and business units, and receive and process supply responses to create a clear perspective on availability.
• Orchestrate proactive communication on availability opportunities and bottlenecks throughout the Europe region.
• Translate business and customer requirements to create and deliver strategies (across Talent, Partnerships, Processes, Systems/ Technology) to enable Region business plans (e.g., product portfolio, route-to-market, growth plans, customer requirements).
• Represent the Europe Region in the Integrated Supply Chain team of Personal Health – vice versa represents ISC (Integrated Supply Chain) on the Europe Region Leadership Team.
• Drive the integrated supply chain transformation in the region and co-develop the transformation on the ISC PH level.
• Drive quality standards, targets, and methods to control process quality.
• Drive a quality & customer mindset throughout Operations and assess the effectiveness of third-party processes and their quality control.
• Align the supply chain processes between the different groups in the department. Establish integrated ways of working in E2E (End-to-End) Supply Chain as well as with Commercial teams (e.g., Marketing, Sales, Finance).
• Coordinate the resolution of technical shortcomings of supply chain processes and procedures and introduce new ways to optimize them.
• Develop high-performing teams.
• Strong attention to product and process quality.

You're the right fit if you have:

• 10+ years of supply chain and operations experience in the consumer industry.
• Hands-on and leadership experience with demand & supply planning, S&OP, and distribution. Experience with ERP and planning systems.
• Proven ability to lead transformation and develop capabilities across processes, people, and systems.

• At least 5 years of broad, international people leadership experience.
• Experience with overall control of planning, staffing, budgeting, managing expense priorities, and recommending and implementing changes to methods.
• Experience in the European Consumer Market.

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong collaboration attitude and skills.
• A master’s degree in business, operations & supply chain, or engineering.
• Drive continuous improvement by applying lean principles.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. This role is an office-based role, which means working in person at least three 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.

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.