Senior Project Buyer (DH1265)

Senior Project Buyer (DH1265) Eindhoven/Winterswijk
(central player in innovation of Lighting)

Our principal
For Philips, improving lives with light goes back to the founding fathers in 1891. At Philips Lighting, they carry this tradition forward, across the three domains Healthcare, Lifestyle and Technology.
Philips Lighting has the ambition to simply enhance people's life with Light. Through a huge array of products, and variety in design, intensity, color and effects, Philips Lighting contributes to making life easier and more efficient. From lighting for interiors and offices to Olympic Stadiums and the Eiffel Tower, they beautify people’s homes and public spaces and enhance safety and a sense of well-being. Light can provide heat, purify water, treat diseases, increase road safety, create comfortable and efficient working environments and contribute to a relaxing atmosphere even in stressful moments like medical examinations
Within Philips Lighting, the Business Group Professional Luminaires Professional serves our customers by providing advanced and easy to experience products for professional indoor and outdoor applications. The BG’s R&D organization adds value to customers by understanding their needs and using state of the art technologies like LED and dedicated controls to develop innovative products and solutions designed around them. The Purchasing organization supports the development of new products, drives value engineering and ensures a smoothly operating supply chain.
The Development Group in Winterswijk, being part of the Regional Business Unit Professional Luminaires, generates products for indoor applications like offices, hospitals, shops and industry. The Development Group is rapidly transforming into an organization using the latest LED technologies and controls and is networking with partners to deliver advanced solutions. Recent achievements are the introduction of a fully LED based indoor luminaire with an outstanding design.
For the Purchasing organization of the RBU EMEA Professional Luminaires we are looking for a senior project buyer (DH1265), located at the Development Group in Winterswijk.

The position
As Senior Project Buyer you will contribute to driving projects forward and ensure timely delivery of innovative technical solutions for our customers. This is a new opening within the department and you will have the opportunity to bring new ideas, shape and form to the role.
Your initial responsibilities will be as follows:

Supplier management
• Establish and maintain a value adding supplier network and remain up to date with the state of the art technologies, modules and components.
• Be responsible for the supplier choice decision making process and assures that this is in line with commodity teams strategies and guidelines and with the logistical requirements of the receiving factory
• Organize supplier assessments
• Involve suppliers in PRIP projects (ESI= Early Supplier Involvement, co design)
• Inform commodity teams and suppliers on project roadmap, resulting in finding suppliers which are ‘future proof’

Project management
• Support development teams for the definition of requirements to suppliers (global supply chain requirements)
• Contribute to the innovation planning process by feeding forward trends and solutions available in the supply network
• Be co-responsible for successful project development, realizing performance, cost, quality and planning targets with the project team.
• Detect & minimize risks in projects related to the supply base
• Prepare handover documents for the receiving factory at MS 1

Quality
• Ensure that Philips specifications are formulated clearly, transparent & realistic and do-able from supplier perspective
• Coordinate the launch RFQ for estimation of tool costs & BOM costs in close cooperation with the commodity teams;
• Negotiate tool & module/component costs in alignment with the Strategic Buyers
• Support quality tools approach towards suppliers : Design for Six Sigma (DfSS) and Advance quality planning (AQP) in cooperation with SQM
• Contribute to measuring and reporting on supplier performance.

Your Profile
The candidate we are looking for has an University degree in technology related studies ( e.g.mechanical engineering or materials science) and 5 years of experience in product development or 3-5 years of experience in purchasing or 3-5 years of experience in project management
Furthermore to be successful we think that :
• You are an excellent communicator
• You are pro-active and take initiative
• You are results-oriented, customer focused and determined to finish actions through completion

What Philips Lighting offers you
Philips offers you a challenging job with excellent career development possibilities and benefits, like:
• Competitive base salary
• Bonus scheme
• 25 days leave
• non-contributory pension scheme
• Personal development and growth is highly valued and supported within Philips.

The base salary is complemented with a personal budget. The personal Budget is a sum you receive in addition to your salary each month.

Interested?
Then please apply via the button below mentioning reference code DH1265. Our Principal is an equal opportunity employer and international candidates are encouraged to apply. All information provided will be dealt with confidentially.

Questions?
If you require further information please contact our consultant, Mr. Mark van Gaal, on +31 (0)6 54678578 or via gaal@inquest.nl.