Global Warehouse and Distribution Leader

In this role, you will determine the policy for the logistics department of the Business Group. You will also manage an integral logistics department via a very large number of department managers as well as formulating the strategic long-term logistics policy, considering all of the relevant factors for integrated management.

You are responsible for

• Developing and executing a winning Integrated Warehouse and Distribution (IWD) Strategy & Roadmap
• Aligning the IWD and Philips Priorities with focus on Services Excellence and Strategic Partnerships
• Understand the Market/Business/Function needs and applications
• Apply technology / customer use / market / competitive trends
• Define propositions and innovations that create new product / service / solutions
• Drive robust operations in line with SLAs and KPIs set while ensuring high stakeholders' satisfaction
• Build mindset of KPI management and LEAN Leadership by systematically enabling continuous improvement.
• Drive the E2E process integration, standardization, value chain creation while meeting and beating productivity targets
• Ensure that the total IWD cost meet annual operating plan (AOP)
• Ensure strict Quality & Regulatory compliance
• Provide strategic direction and develop a team to delivering IWD services globally
• Develop new service offerings to support Markets in order to improve their service capabilities to end customers
• Continuous strengthening of high performance culture & employee experience, ensuring good engagement of the team and good talent retention
• Build the Philips/ IWD awareness to create a strong value proposition

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

• Master’s degree preferred with 15+ years of related experience
• 15+ years of warehousing and distribution experience and experience in direct P&L management
• Experience with customs handling, outsourcing/ vendor management Services and 3PL management
• Relevant experience in Health Care Supply Chain, Logistics, Import/Export, Warehousing and Distribution Management
• Experience with managing under Service Level Agreement (SLA), Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and performance metrics and monitoring for in scope activities
• Experience in managing large projects/programs in complex organizations and/or environments
• Strong leadership skills to lead and manage globally culturally diverse teams across geographies
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills, strong interpersonal and presentation skills
• Proven track record in change management, and managing continuous improvement (LEAN, Six Sigma) and business transformation programs
• Good business acumen with ability to synthesize creative solutions and consulting capability