Procurement Engineer

Job Summary

Job Title: Procurement Engineer

The Procurement Engineer or Product Sourcing Engineer (PSE) plays a pivotal role in driving advanced and new product development efforts by establishing and industrializing the supplier base for innovation projects. The role leads the creation of Product Cost Roadmaps for existing products, aiming to deliver improvements in cost efficiency, quality, and risk mitigation. It actively engages suppliers in BoM RFP processes to secure competitive pricing and comprehensive participation, while conducting Design for Excellence (DfX) activities to enhance overall product value. The PSE facilitates early supplier innovation events to promote collaboration and technical input, working closely with Innovation and Engineering teams to incorporate breakthrough ideas into product design-ultimately optimizing propositions and ensuring maximum value for Philips and its customers.

Your role:

• Drives supplier participation in BoM RFPs for technical fit and cost competitiveness
• Leads DfX initiatives to optimize cost, quality, and product performance
• Facilitates early supplier innovation and integrates it into design
• Partners with Engineering to leverage supplier expertise and influence specifications
• Champions product cost and quality strategies across the portfolio
• Ensures supplier readiness for New Product Introductions
• Builds cost roadmaps post-launch, driving continuous improvements
• Shapes cost engineering strategies through cross-functional collaboration
• Executes impactful sourcing, cost, and risk reduction projects

Youre the right fit if you have:

• Bachelors/ Masters Degree in Electrical, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering.
• 10+ years of proven expertise in Product Sourcing, Supplier Innovation, and Cost Engineering, consistently driving value through strategic supplier engagement, technical insights, and process optimization.

Key Skills:

• DfX (Design for Excellence) - cost, quality risk optimization
• BoM RFP Leadership - supplier engagement pricing strategy
• Cost Roadmapping - lifecycle cost planning control
• Supplier Innovation - early collaboration integration
• New Product Introduction (NPI) - supplier readiness ramp-up
• Manufacturing Know-how - process capability industrialization
• Cost Engineering - analysis reduction strategies
• Cross-Functional Collaboration - engineering, innovation sourcing teams
• Project Management - strategic sourcing initiatives

How we work together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our 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 most effectively done outside of the company's main facilities, generally at the customers or suppliers locations. This is an office based role.

If you're interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips.

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