Are you ready to step into a strategic role that directly impacts the lives of people around the world? Join Philips Health Systems as a Supplier Performance Manager for Image Guided Therapy (IGT), where you'll be part of a leading business that is at the forefront of technological innovation and healthcare. This position offers a clear career path towards leadership roles and provides the opportunity for close collaboration with an expansive external network. **Your Challenge:** As a Supplier Performance Manager, you will play a crucial role in ensuring product availability by managing supplier relationships and inventory levels across our manufacturing sites in Best. You will represent the procurement team in cross-functional activities and drive continuous improvement in supply chain performance. **You are responsible for:** + **Supplier Management:** Partner across the supply chain to ensure material availability while minimizing inventory and excess & obsolete stock. + **Operational Guidance:** Act as a role model within the Procurement team, providing operational and tactical guidance to meet material availability commitments. + **Risk Assessment:** Identify and manage risks and impact gaps related to material quantities across different Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers. + **Coaching and Development:** Coach operational buyers on supply chain optimization and enhance reporting, analytics, and tooling capabilities. + **Logistics Management:** Define and manage the logistics flow of materials between suppliers and factories to minimize costs and inventories while ensuring component availability. + **Performance Improvements:** Drive structural improvements in the supply chain performance of both internal and external suppliers. + **Capacity Monitoring:** Oversee short-term and mid-term capacity execution, addressing gaps and recovery actions. + **Stakeholder Engagement:** Connect with various stakeholders across planning, production, suppliers, R&D, etc., to ensure material availability. + **Review Meetings:** Lead supplier reviews, including monthly performance reviews (MPR) and Business Review Meetings (BRM). + **S&OP Integration:** Prepare Supply Review and S&OP inputs for your supplier portfolio, confirming supplier flexibility and capacity. **You are a part of:** You will be part of the Operational Material Management (OMM) team within Philips Health Systems. Working closely with Operational Buyers, Supplier Performance Managers, and End-Of-Life Analysts, you will report to the OMM procurement manager and collaborate extensively with Procurement Engineers, Supplier Account Managers, and supplier partners. **To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience** **:** + Bachelor's or Master's degree in Supply Chain Management. + Minimum of 3 to 5 years of experience in supplier performance management. + Proficiency in SAP and Excel with strong analytical skills. + Experience in dynamic, highly technological supply chains is preferred. + Self-starter with a proactive **"make-it-happen" attitude and outcome oriented.** + Detail-oriented with strong problem-solving abilities. + Lean experience is a plus. **How we work at Philips** This is a hybrid role with minimum 3 days a week in the office. **Why should you join Philips?** Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you. \#LI-EU