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In this role, you have the opportunity to

Work within a fast paced, specialized, and dynamic team collaborating with Marketing & Sales and Business Innovation Units & Finance in the Commercial Operations organization.

You are responsible for

• Manage demonstration equipment inventory in the United States for sales operation at the desired service levels, while maintaining the lowest inventory investment possible.
• Perform Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual inventory management processes; audits, reports, cycle-counts and may support forecasts. Develop tactical improvement initiatives to meet both short and long-term goals.
• Manage individual KPI’s, Continuous Improvement initiatives, metrics and trackers.
• Maintain and adhere to applicable quality system policies and procedures associated with inventory management.
• Actively participate in New Product Development planning and manage end-of-life to minimize scrap.
• Actively participate in Philips Lean culture to help drive efficiencies.
• Collaborate with Order Processing, Field Sales, Finance and other cross-functional business groups as required to ensure equipment scheduling, customer demo orders and buy-backs correctly process through SAP/Salesforce.
• Serve as liaison with the Commercial Operation, Sales and Finance organization to maintain strong positive relationships.
• Ensure effective and consistent administration of all company policies, procedures, programs and systems.
• Anticipates and manages workload effectively to meet commitments and all applicable established departmental goals.
• Provides support and information cross functionally within the Customer Fulfillment Center, as required/requested.

You are a part of

Our Customer Fulfillment team where you will work as a Demonstration Equipment Inventory Specialist. You will manage capacity and inventory utilization as well as identification of supply-demand gaps and developing solutions to address.

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

• Bachelor’s degree and related internship experience in a Supply Chain, Engineering, Mathematics or other quantitative discipline
• Experience with Supply Chain Management (SCM) concepts – forecasting, planning, inventory, logistics, etc.
• Knowledge of Salesforce.com and SAP (or other ERP systems)
• Proficient with data analytics/manipulation (e.g. MS Excel, Access).
• Strong troubleshooting skills and demonstrated problem solving of complex issues.
• Prior use of Lean and/or Six Sigma analytical techniques a plus
• Experience in project management and ability to deliver initiatives
• Excellent judgement skills in escalating and tracking issues
• Strong ability to diagnose problems, apply effective solutions and determine follow-up actions with minimum direction
• Eager to take on new tasks/expanded responsibilities; develop and shares best practices
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including active listening skills
• Has the ability to work in a fast-paced environment, who possesses a flexible attitude and a willingness to change priorities, as the business needs demand
• Quick learner able to build a comprehensive knowledge of demonstration equipment and configurations
• Ability to work under minimal supervision on day-to-day activities, maintaining a high degree of accuracy and integrity
• Willingness to perform overtime work as required to meet business demands

In return, we offer you

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.

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