Location: Łódź
In this role, you have the opportunity to
- Coordinate and facilitate projects related to Payment Terms and Price Management
- Provide systems maintenance and updates (including data entry)
- Manage operational tasks, authorizations issues in order to ensure reliable and well performing tool’s environment (according to given directions and instructions)
- Perform extensive 1st line and/or 2nd line support activities
- Establishing and maintaining relationships with internal/external stake holders and customers
- Make all required reporting and trend analysis
- Provide insightful reports analysis and recommendations within the procurement scope
- Solving escalations and issues related to area of operations
- Identifying and participating (supporting) in procurement /improvement projects /initiatives;
- Identify improvement opportunities and translate these as specific project
- Dealing with service scope changes / amendments
- Ensuring procurement policies are followed and issues clarified
You are responsible for
- Perform and manage operations within area of responsibility
- Actively support Philips projects/central initiatives
- Maintain platform used for communicating prices
- Perform systems maintenance and updates (including data entry in SAP and SharePoint)
- Work directly with internal stakeholders to ensure data requests are complete and comply with standards
- Act as the primary point of contact for business questions related to prices and payment terms
- Support in the development of forms, procedures and work instructions
Procurement Shared Services Center (PSSC) based in Łódź, Poland, is part of global Philips Procurement. Under the umbrella of Royal Philips, Philips Procurement manages and performs sourcing and procurement activities for (indirect) goods and services for Philips.
PSSC acts on behalf of the Philips businesses, handling every step in the purchasing process – from demand analysis to final delivery. PSSC delivers value added services by leveraging economies of scale, globalizing processes and simplifying the ways of working, while delivering superior purchasing experiences by listening and acting on our customers’ feedback.
To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience
- Bachelor degree (as a minimum)
- Fluent English (additional language may be required)
- Communication skills and Customer attitude
- Team work
- Strong execution skills
- Analytical skills
- Knowledge on programs and systems, e.g. (SAP, MS Office, SharePoint)
- Understanding of the Philips business and the procurement process and function (in Philips);
- Self-driven and pro-active, able to work independently in virtual eanvironment
- Target and quality driven
- Supply Management Expertise, understanding of the Procurement developments
In return, we offer you
A path towards your most rewarding career. Philips is constantly growing enterprise wide. Succeeding in this challenging role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities.
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 improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.
To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.