Procurement Business Partner Personal Health

Philips Personal Health is a global consumer health business focused on improving people’s health and well-being through everyday care. As a key segment of Royal Philips, it serves millions of consumers worldwide with trusted brands and innovative, design-led products for daily use.

With approximately EUR 3.5 billion in revenue, the Personal Health business operates across three leading categories: Oral Healthcare, Grooming & Beauty (Personal Care), and Mother & Child Care / Women’s Health—each holding strong and established market positions. The segment is a core pillar of Philips’ consumer portfolio, combining device sales with recurring revenue from accessories and consumables. Philips Personal Health brings together consumer-centric innovation, global scale, and connected technology, delivering solutions across retail, e-commerce, and direct-to-consumer channels, with a clear mission to enable positive care behaviors through personalized technology and experiences.

The Procurement Business Partnership Manager is responsible for authorizing comprehensive procurement strategies, driving buy-in, and ensuring successful execution across the organization. This role fosters a collaborative procurement culture, empowers a high-performing team, and serves as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders by translating business needs into strategic procurement solutions. The manager oversees the performance cycle for all procurement activities, champions continuous improvement through innovation and best practices, manages complex situations with a global perspective, and leverages a virtual community of procurement experts to drive Design for Excellence (DfX) principles. The role influences senior management on strategic decisions, secures buy-in for critical initiatives, communicates a compelling vision, positions itself for executive leadership, and demonstrates a holistic understanding of the business impact of teams and technologies. The role oversees all businesses of the Personal Health cluster.

Your role:

• Drive comprehensive procurement strategies aligned with business objectives, category strategies, and overall company goals, including driving buy-in, resource allocation, and ensuring successful execution across the organization.
• Lead succession planning and comprehensive talent management, including employee selection, performance management, compensation management, and career development in alignment with organizational operational goals.
• Empower a collaborative procurement culture at a company-wide level, championing open communication, trust, and shared goals across internal departments and external partners to create a strong procurement ecosystem.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior business leaders, gaining a deep understanding of business objectives, challenges, and priorities to develop strategic procurement solutions that directly impact business success. Guide and influence senior management with insights and persuasive recommendations to secure buy-in for critical procurement initiatives.
• Oversee a team of procurement business partners and project managers, coaching, mentoring, and empowering team members to achieve their full potential and deliver exceptional results.
• Strategize continuous improvement in procurement processes and performance, identifying and implementing innovative solutions, leveraging best practices, and challenging the status quo to achieve greater efficiency, cost savings, and value creation.
• Orchestrate and oversee the performance cycle for all procurement activities within assigned business units, setting clear expectations, monitoring progress, addressing challenges, and escalating issues as needed.
• Manage complex situations and make strategic decisions with a global perspective, considering business needs, company policies, supplier risks, and diverse stakeholder viewpoints to find optimal solutions.
• Build and lead a virtual community of procurement experts, fostering collaboration, knowledge sharing, and innovation within the broader procurement function.
• Champion and drive Design for Excellence (DfX) principles across assigned areas, integrating cost-effectiveness, quality, and other strategic considerations into product and service design from the outset.

You're the right fit if you have:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Procurement Operations, or equivalent.
• Minimum 11 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree, OR 9 years with a Master’s degree, in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, or related areas.
• Significant procurement experience in consumer electronics, consumer goods, or adjacent high-volume B2C industries, managing complex supplier ecosystems and rapid innovation cycles.
• Experience in leading and managing large teams of 65–70 members.
• Strong people management skills with the ability to manage change, build high-performing teams, and influence stakeholders across functions.
• Proven expertise in procurement policies, processes, and supply chain management, with strong business acumen and risk management capabilities.
• Demonstrated success in strategic planning, budget oversight, and program management, driving operational excellence and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with DfX methodology and experience in applying structured approaches to deliver sustainable value.
• Proven ability to drive change across the supplier network while fostering strong business partnerships.
• Extensive global supplier management experience, with a strong emphasis on Asia.
• Strong capability to accelerate and support New Product Introductions (NPIs) for faster market readiness.
• High commercial acumen, with the ability to communicate in business terms beyond procurement-specific language.

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.