Business Title Product Industrialization Project Manager

Job Title

Business Title: Product Industrialization Project Manager

Overview

You will lead the industrialization of new products and can shape the next end to end value stream.

Your role: Leading teams in the industrialization phase of Philips Grooming & Beauty products, coordinating cross-functional activities to ensure smooth and robust product launches. You will support the manufacturability and supply readiness of new propositions from early development until products reach the market, focusing on building efficient and predictable manufacturing and supply chain solutions for Philips and its customers.

Responsibilities

• The bridge between product development (I&D) and the Supply Chain (internal & external). Enable supply chains for new propositions & innovations to fulfill the needs of our customers.
• Drive new product introductions at our external packaging location.
• Drive sourcing decisions together with procurement & supplier quality.
• Align value stream requirements with the business and factories.
• Translate product requirements into process and manufacturing requirements; implement lean and capable processes safeguarded by process control. Support the proposition by ensuring manufacturability and operational efficiency, improving quality, lead time, factory cost price & supply chain predictability, while avoiding unnecessary investments and obsolescence.
• Optimize product design with Design for Manufacturing, Assembly & Test (DFMAT) as well as improvements via Design for Excellence (DfX).
• Manage timely and accurate financial status including capital investments (typically <2.5M€).
• Create, release, and continuously drive the improvement of tools, equipment and manufacturing processes and related quality systems to meet product specifications.
• Ensure flawless industrialization of new consumer products and that launches are met.
• Be part of the Product Industrialization Engineer team; this team is responsible for ensuring realization of new products, matching demand and capacity in the mid/long term, and maintaining the portfolio in the market.
• Location and reporting: Based in Drachten and reports directly to the Director Product Industrialization Grooming & Beauty.

Qualifications

• You have a Bachelor/master’s degree in a technical subject or equivalent by experience.
• Strong project management skills and ability to lead a large team.
• Strong communication skills with external and internal stakeholders.
• Experience with problem solving tools like DFSS (Greenbelt / Blackbelt).
• Strong leadership in the project, able to mitigate risk, drive decisions and influence at all levels of the organization.
• At least 5+ years experience in an industrial environment with manufacturing technology, lean manufacturing and/or product development.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 10%.
• Independent, mature, and positive attitude; resilient in the face of resistance.
• Eager to learn with an entrepreneurial mindset / can-do attitude.
• This role requires presence at least 3 days per week in the Drachten office.

Benefits / What We Offer

The chance to be a key contributor in the industrialization of Philips Grooming & Beauty products. Opportunity to improve processes by creating the supply chain of the future and to do global stakeholder management. You will be operating in a driven team with strong technical knowledge.

How we work together

We believe we are better together than apart. For office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are typically outside the company’s main facilities, at customers’ or suppliers’ locations. Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite role.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. Our belief is that every human matters, and we strive to ensure access to quality healthcare for all. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

Notes:

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