Philips Business Region & Engagement Manager - 

China, Shanghai 

266665023

You are responsible for

• Establishes a collaborative culture related to Procurement (all 3rd party indirect spend) exemplified by openness, trust, shared action, and an emphasis on mutual long-term benefits to become an Influential and valued Business Partner
• Is the single point of contact for assigned businesses & Regions on all Procurement related topicscovering Demand Management tocategory strategies with a view to provide procurement solutions for addressing the business challenges.
• Gains stakeholder insights about Business/ Region objectives, strategies, requirements, and priorities by deep listening and understanding.
• Builds deep B/R insights and collaborates with the Business Leader and Heads of Finance to identify enterprise-wide opportunities to drive revenue/value generation and operating cost optimization.
• Brings business insights as input to Global Category Management teams.
• Leverages and interlink best practices, (cost) category and B/R insights with the situational dossier to constantly challenge status quo and bring compelling solutions to the table which matter to stakeholder priorities.
• Ensures that B/R objectives and requirements are well understood by all relevant Procurement functions to co-create and improve the (category strategies and programs
• Drives Global Procurement initiatives into the respective businesses and regions to maximize the benefit at an enterprise level.
• Provide region and business specific inputs to the design of the global category strategies and make them locally relevant in the implementation in the business and regions.
• Orchestrates and drives stakeholder related performance cycle incl. escalations across all Procurement activities to meet stakeholder objectives and deliver on agreed plans.
• SM: Program manages execution of stakeholder related Funnel measures (QxP) and co-creates a future funnel of opportunities
• Is responsible for crisis management in case of business-critical Supply Base/Supplier/Governance related issues.
• Drives DfX in own scope.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

• Typically requires a Master’s degree in Business Administration/ Master degree in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent
• Relevant training in SPM and Supply chain preferred.
• Minimum 10 years’ related experience (for Master degree) in Procurement, Supply Chain or in related Stakeholder function
• Cultural sensitiveness, able to do global business across Europe, the Americas and Asia