North America Supply Planning Lead - Personal Health

Join Philips as the North American Region (NAR) Supply Planning Lead within our Personal Health business and build a world-class Supply Planning Hub from the ground up, where you’ll lead strategy, operations, talent, and digital transformation to drive end-to-end supply chain excellence across a rapidly growing global business.

Your role:

• Build, recruit, and lead a world-class team of Global Supply Planners that anchor regional planning within Philips’ global end-to-end supply network. Establish the team’s operating model, capabilities, governance, and long-term strategic direction.
• Lead North America supply planning operationally, tactically, and strategically, aligning demand and supply to optimize product availability, customer service, inventory, lead time, waste, obsolescence, and total value-stream cost. Implement rule-based planning and world-class standards that enable scalable growth and operational excellence.
• Drive effective regional and global Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales and Operations Execution (S&OE) processes, including supply review, regional execution content, and long-term planning and portfolio (LTPP) optimization and deployment. Represent the North America Region as a member of the Global Planning and Distribution Leadership Team, partnering across regional supply chain management, global planning, factories, and key stakeholders.
• Lead supply planning excellence, innovation, and digital transformation, translating global developments and emerging trends into regional strategies and improvement priorities. Advance integrated planning through enterprise resource planning systems, AI-enabled insights, and global analytics tools that strengthen performance reviews and informed decision-making.
• Build organizational and value-stream capabilities, using approaches such as value-stream mapping to structurally improve end-to-end performance. Lead succession planning, talent management, role standardization, performance management, capability development, and career growth across the supply planning organization.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 8+ years of experience in sales and operations planning (S&OP), supply planning, demand planning, supply chain management, project management, or another related field. Within your total years of experience, you must possess 5+ years of direct people leadership experience, preferably in a global organization. Healthcare technology or medical device industry experience preferred.
• Your skills include advanced knowledge of SAP and/or other Material Requirements Planning (MRP)/Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools (Oracle, Blue Yonder Supply Planning, Kinaxis). You are well versed in existing and emerging AI technologies.
• You have a bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Demand Planning, Operations Management, Business Analytics, or other related fields of study.
• You're a strategic supply chain leader with proven expertise in leading high-performing teams, optimizing demand and supply planning, driving continuous improvement, managing inventory, materials, suppliers, capacity, budgets, and key performance indicators, and leveraging enterprise planning systems to deliver business results, mitigate risk, and enable end-to-end operational excellence.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position:
  • You’re able to travel for business to include team meetings, factory visits, and training (up to 10% national and global travel).
  • You’re able to work flexible hours based on business needs.
  • You’re able to lead/supervise others.