Product Sourcing Engineer

Job Title

Product Sourcing Engineer

Job Description

We welcome you to join Philips as a Procurement Engineer/Product Sourcing Engineer.

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it's not just what we do, it's who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common: An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers' needs. It's what inspires us to create meaningful solutions - the kind that make a real difference - when it matters most.

The world and our customers' needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That's why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Drive Advanced Development & New Product Development (PDLM projects) to industrialize the supplier base for the new innovation projects and to drive Product Cost Roadmaps for released products focused on cost, quality and risk improvements.

Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips' purpose has never been more relevant. So, whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you'll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

You are responsible for

- Driving the sourcing plan for New Product projects using I2M Planner

- Executing the sourcing plan deliverables to ensure project targets are achieved for cost, quality, risk and optimized TCO. Influencing targets based external competitive benchmarks

- Orchestrating and assembling the sourcing grid details for the NPI BoM in partnership with Procurement and bringing it to Sourcing Board for decision

- Assembling and engaging suppliers on project BoM RFPs using Ariba e-RFQ

- Conducting DfX (Design for Excellence) activities to identify opportunity to improve product cost, quality and risk

- Conducting early supplier innovation events & workshop to bring suppliers earlier in the product innovation process

- Influencing R&D and capturing supplier innovation in the products to optimize the propositions and achieve the best value for Philips and its customers

- Developing innovative solutions to simplify, standardize or platform components or assemblies across the portfolio

- Influencing design specifications to ensure applicability to broad technology, supplier and part capability

- Leading the Product Sourcing Swim lane PDLM pre-gate reviews. Ensuring deliverables and targets are achieved for cost, quality & risk

- Managing Phase In/Out of the new product projects and transfer to Material Management for production

- Ensuring supplier readiness and installed capacity for NPI launch and ramp

- Monitoring production post release to build product cost roadmaps to drive improvements in cost, quality, risk

- Developing ideas and opportunities for product cost reduction and quality improvement and enter into the productivity funnel.

You are part of

This role will be a part of the Product Sourcing Engineering organization.

The position holder will need to be based in Pittsburgh, PA

To succeed in this role, you'll need a customer-first attitude and the following

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Electrical Engineering.

- PMP certification is preferred.

- Medical manufacturing background is a plus

- 5+ years of consistent professional trackrecord, preferably in Procurement Engineering, Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Quality, R&D, or Advanced Manufacturing Engineering

- Experience in DfX, Value Engineering, LEAN or Six Sigma

- Experience in working across New Product Introduction and Advance Development Process (e.g. PDLM)

- Deep knowledge of the long-term structural cost drivers for the assigned product. Experience in initiating and driving cost down & productivity projects.

- Knowledge of costing toolset (Should Costing, NPV, TCO) in projects.

- Ability to think strategically and delivers results.

- Ability to understand blueprints and specifications from manufacturability stand point.

- Experience in international and multidisciplinary project teams is preferred

- Ability to easily gain trust and support of peers; encourage collaboration and challenge constructively

- Ability to travel up to 15% of the time

In return, we offer you

The opportunity to grow within the organization and Philips - working cross functionally on various projects and initiatives to drive our products to our customers and be a part of saving people's lives every day.

Philips will offer a path towards your most rewarding career, with opportunities to show your skills and develop yourself in many ways.

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa.

How we work at Philips

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart - which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home - for our hybrid roles.

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone's in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.

We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when, and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn't office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams, and our customers on a case-by-case basis.

We want to be at our best: The way we work, and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

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.

Visit our careers website to explore what it's like working at Philips, read stories from our employee blog, find information about our recruitment process and answers to some frequently asked questions.

Effective Tuesday, January 4, 2022, all U.S.-based employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID as a condition of employment at Philips. Employees may request a reasonable accommodation.

*Montana employees are currently excluded from this requirement at this time.

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Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veteran and maintains a drug-free workplace.