Philips Project Procurement Trainee 

China, Guangdong Province, Bao'an District 

458725101

Project Procurement Trainee

Your Role: To support Project procurement team on below tasks

• Take accountability and responsibility for New Product Project Procurement in Philips Innovation Center in Shenzhen, China, Represent Procurement in product creation projects.

• Organize early supplier involvement with a Design for excellence (DfX) mindset and you make use of approaches like co-design or cost-reduction workshops ensuring an optimized Total Cost of Ownership (cost, quality, availability) in product and business creation and through their full life cycle.
• Prepare Request for Quotations and project contracts including specs and project requirements with suppliers.
• Support price negotiations with opportunities to drive short- and long-term cost reduction improvement.
• Ensure procurement-related risks (cost, quality and availability) are controlled and mitigated by bringing the relevant procurement colleagues into the equation.
• Cooperate with other functions such as Marketing, Supply Chain, Innovation & Development and Procurement Commodity Management to identify strategic cost reduction opportunities for products in the portfolio and for products in development.
• Collaborate with Supplier Quality in the new supplier/component release process, including compliance and sustainability aspects.

You're the right fit if

• Master’s degree preferred, major in technical/engineering related discipline or BS degree plus MA in commercial related discipline, overseas education is a plus
• Procurement internship experience in MNC is preferred
• Good English and Chinese language skills are required.
• Strategic thinker, able to combine and structure information to enable data driven decision-making.
• A team player who is both proactive and cooperative; easily gains trust and support from peers; encourages collaboration and challenges constructively.
• High on energy with a hands-on mentality.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.
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