Material Planner

Job Title

Material Planner

Job Description

As a Material Planner, you will ensure material availability, optimize inventory, manage supplier relationships, and support product lifecycle processes, enabling efficient and resilient global supply chains.

Your Role

• Drive global inventory analysis and replenishment policies, including supplier-managed inventories.
• Act as the central contact for global and cross-site suppliers, ensuring alignment, collaboration, and performance.
• Lead product lifecycle management (PLM) and NPIs, securing timely deliverables and supporting quality standards.
• Design inventory strategies, identify optimization opportunities, and transform supply chain insights into actionable solutions.
• Monitor and manage OMM KPIs, drive corrective actions, and support production ramp-up activities.
• Validate supplier orders, expedite when necessary, and ensure ERP/MDM data accuracy.
• Identify and mitigate shortage risks, conduct cross-functional shortage review meetings, and build risk management strategies.
• Lead process improvements, root cause analysis, and supplier performance reviews to strengthen supply chain resilience.
• Manage a diverse portfolio of materials – from sourcing to delivery – while balancing efficiency, cost, and compliance.
• Contribute to customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and cost efficiency across the global Philips supply chain.
  
  

You're The Right Fit If You Have

• Minimal 2 years experience with a Bachelor’s OR 1 year with a Master’s in material planning, supply chain management, or related fields.
• Strong analytical skills, advanced Excel (mandatory), ERP (SAP advantage), fluent English (written and spoken), organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Economics, Operations Research, Data Analytics, or equivalent.
• Strong business acumen, ability to work independently and collaboratively in a global environment, with proven cross-functional collaboration skills.
  
  

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.

This role is onsite, based in Philips Healthcare, Haifa.

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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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• 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 here.

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