**Operations Specialist (Columbus, OH)** This role supports manufacturing and warehouse operations by bridging product development, production planning, and logistics to ensure high-quality products are delivered on time while optimizing efficiency, inventory levels, and manufacturing standards. **Your role:** + Partner with product development and manufacturing teams to support product development lifecycle management (PDLM) subprojects, providing factory input on manufacturability, quality control plans, and project sign-off activities. + Support day-to-day warehouse and inventory operations, including production planning, inbound and outbound order management, packing, and shipping within the SAP and MBP systems. + Calculate and execute optimal production plans for in-house and outsourced manufacturing by balancing supply and demand, throughput times, and logistics parameters to meet market needs. + Lead and support manufacturing enhancements, including capital expenditure optimization, procurement, installation, and supervision of recurring manufacturing equipment. + Apply Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies to identify defects, reduce waste, improve quality, and enhance overall operational efficiency while collaborating with global supply chain and warehouse stakeholders. **You're the right fit if:** + You’ve acquired experience in manufacturing engineering, operations planning, or supply chain roles with demonstrated ownership of SAP planning modules (especially SAP MBP inventory and order governance in a manufacturing environment) as an individual contributor. + Your skills include hands-on experience supporting New Product Introduction (NPI) using Philips ACI (Automated Control & Integration) product and process roadmaps, performing configuration and lifecycle activities that align with manufacturing readiness and quality standards. + You have strong expertise in SAP MBP including managing inbound/outbound production orders, inventory reconciliation, warehouse document flows, and system issue resolution via structured problem-solving. + You have a bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, or equivalent. + You’re an analytical, proactive communicator with demonstrated ability to work independently and influence cross-functional teams in a global, warehouse-centric environment (onsite presence expected at least 3 days per week). + You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position. **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. This is an office role. **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 improve the lives of others. + Learn more about our business. + Discover our rich and exciting history. + Learn more about our purpose. + Learn more about our culture. **Philips Transparency Details** The pay range for this position in (Columbus, OH) is $60,000 to $96,000 The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.   In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found here. At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. **Additional Information** US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. Company relocation benefits **will not** be provided for this position. For this position, you must reside in **or** within commuting distance to Columbus, OH **.** It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy/childbirth, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability or perceived disability, genetic information, citizenship, veteran or military status or a person’s relationship or association with a protected veteran, including spouses and other family members, marital or domestic partner status, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to a diverse workforce. In order to ensure reasonable accommodation for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974, and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance. Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran