Planner Buyer

Job Title
Planner Buyer

Job Description

Job title:
Planner Buyer
Your role:
Are you passionate about driving operational excellence in supply chain processes and ensuring seamless material availability to support customer demand? Join our dynamic team at Philips and play a key role in planning, purchasing, and optimizing the flow of materials throughout the supply chain.

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive customer demand fulfillment by ensuring material availability across the supply chain
• Execute tactical material planning, including forecast analysis and alignment with internal and external suppliers and distribution centers
• Manage operational material planning and end-to-end purchase order execution
• Identify supply risks, lead mitigation actions, and escalate when needed
• Maintain master data accuracy to enable automated and efficient replenishment
• Monitor supplier performance and ensure compliance with Philips Global Supply Chain Processes
• Follow up on material lifecycle to secure availability and avoid obsolescence
• Perform inventory analysis and define inventory policies to balance material availability and investment
• Continuously improve material supply processes and collaborate across departments
  
  

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• Cost of Non-Quality: Excess & Obsolete Inventory
• Supplier Delivery Performance (VMI & CLIP)
• Customer Service Levels (OTTR / OTTP / COTS)
• Procurement Order Tracking and Invoice Blocking Reduction
• Inventory Health (% of MAT sales)
• Accuracy of Master Data
  
  

Requirements:

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Business Economics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Research, Data Analysis and Statistics, Business Analytics or equivalent – mandatory
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in material planning or supply chain – strong advantage
• Advanced Excel skills – mandatory
• Experience with ERP systems (SAP – advantage)
• Full proficiency in English – reading, writing, and speaking – mandatory
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• The greater impact of this role.
• Detail elements of the team and stakeholders for this role.
• What are the professional and personal opportunities for development within this role?
• From (benefit 1) to (benefit 2), a career at Philips comes with all sorts of wonderful benefits. Be sure to speak to your recruiter about benefits in your region.
  
  

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.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

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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.

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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 here.