In this role, you have the opportunity to drive supply chain excellence by improving operational performance, standardizing processes, strengthening governance, and leading inventory and compliance initiatives. You will work cross-functionally with Order Management, Customer Project Management, Finance, and other key stakeholders to deliver measurable business impact, improve customer outcomes, and ensure sustainable operational excellence.
Your role:
1. Driving Zone Performance
- Drive supply chain performance within the allocated zone(s), by owning end-to-end KPI management including root cause analysis and ensuring the implementation of corrective actions to reach defined KPI targets and business outcomes.
- Ensure that the right structures, governance and accountability frameworks are in place to drive performance outcomes.
- Ensure effective collaboration and accountability framework with cross-functional stakeholders for the zones, including Order Management, Customer Project Management and Finance teams.
2. Process Standardization
- Identify process gaps and inefficiencies, and roll out the implementation of corrective actions with a solid structure, stakeholder accountability framework, measurable simplification and business impact.
- Own and enforce standardized supply chain processes and governance frameworks across all European zones and/or businesses, ensuring consistency and compliance.
3. Unhealthy Inventory
- Own end-to-end unhealthy inventory management with a standardized approach across Europe zones and/or businesses.
- Drive and ensure execution of unhealthy inventory reduction actions and long-term prevention strategies, with clear ownership and measurable impact.
4. Internal Controls
- Own internal control execution and compliance within a standard way of working across European zones and/or businesses.
- Ensure timely submission of the preparation, timely execution of action plans by the stakeholders, and present the execution procedure during internal and external audits.
You're the right fit if you have:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Logistics, or a related field.
- You have professional experience in areas such as Supply Chain, Order Management, Logistics, Process Improvement, Operations, or Business Administration.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify root causes and implement effective corrective actions.
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive accountability across cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication and organizational skills.
- Fluency in English in addition to Italian as local language.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with KPI monitoring, reporting, and performance management.
- Knowledge of supply chain processes and inventory management methodologies.
- Experience in driving continuous improvement and process standardization initiatives.
- Familiarity with ERP systems and supply chain planning tools.
- Understanding of internal controls, compliance requirements, and audit processes.
Compensation & benefits
Doing meaningful work should come with fair, transparent rewards. The base salary range for this role is € 43,420.00 –€ 85,041.66. We determine pay within the range using objective factors, like the skills the role requires, your relevant experience and the responsibility you'll have in this role, alongside internal equity and local market considerations. This role is eligible for short term incentive, with your rewards linked to both individual performance and company results. We’ll share the full approach with you during the interview process, so you can make a clear, informed decision. Benefits include flexible/hybrid working, paid time-off, health and wellbeing benefits, diversity & inclusion initiatives and learning and development opportunities.
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.
About Philips
Are you ready to do the work of your life to help the lives of others? Learn more about our business, discover our rich and exciting history and learn more about our purpose.
If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Logistics, or a related field
- Professional experience in Supply Chain, Order Management, Logistics, Process Improvement, Operations, or Business Administration
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to identify root causes and implement effective corrective actions
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and drive accountability across cross-functional teams
- Strong communication and organizational skills
- Fluency in English and Italian
- Experience with KPI monitoring, reporting, and performance management
- Knowledge of supply chain processes and inventory management methodologies
- Experience driving continuous improvement and process standardization initiatives
- Familiarity with ERP systems and supply chain planning tools
- Understanding of internal controls, compliance requirements, and audit processes
Philips Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Philips and has not been reviewed or approved by Philips.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support is positioned as a standout, including a strong 401(k) match (often described at 7%) alongside pensions in some contexts.
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Flexible Benefits — Flexible benefits are emphasized through choice in health insurance options and a broad “Total Rewards” approach that combines compensation, health and wellness, and work-life support.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave and time off breadth appears strong, with generous paid time off and policies covering parental leave, caregiving responsibilities, volunteering, and family medical leave.
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What We Do
As a leading health technology company, it is our purpose to improve people’s health and well-being through meaningful innovation. Our goal is to improve 2.5 billion lives per year by 2030. We're always looking for ways to make life better – not only for our customers, but also for everyone working here. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we all acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.
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