JOB DESCRIPTION

This role is expected to influence and improve product design, to support bringing new innovations and features to customers and to optimize IGT’s supply base and -chain helping Philips creating maximum value across the product life cycle.
As a Product Sourcing Engineer, you play a key role in enabling successful New Product Introductions (NPI) and optimizing the supply base and -chain within Image Guided Technology Systems (IGTS) . You support the development and industrialization of the supply base and -chain for current designs and for new innovations, ensuring that product designs are aligned with supply chain capabilities from the earliest phase. This is a highly collaborative role that sits at the intersection of R&D, procurement, and supplier engineering. You help Philips create maximum value across the product lifecycle – not only through sourcing decisions, but also through broader initiatives such as supplier scouting, product design influence, process improvements and optimizing IGTS’ supply base and -chain .

• Influence and improve product design from the early development phase to ensure optimal alignment with supply chain capabilities and manufacturability.
• Optimizing and improving IGTS’ supply base and -chain
• Collaborate closely with R&D, Supplier Engineering, Procurement, and Project Managers to support end-to-end sourcing activities.
• Drive supplier scouting and selection, prepare RFQs, and engage with cross-functional stakeholders in proposal evaluation and sourcing matrix decisions.
• Drive supplier transfers improving product cost, quality and risk mitigation.
• Support prototype qualification and verification in collaboration with Supplier Engineers and ensure timely part readiness.
• Lead supplier engagement during BoM RFPs /RFQ’s , ensuring quality, technical feasibility, and competitive pricing.
• Conduct Design for Excellence (DfX) activities to drive improvements in product cost, quality, and risk mitigation.
• Engage in early supplier innovation events and incorporate supplier input into design and sourcing strategies.
• Participate in broader procurement projects beyond NPI, including supplier transfers, service spend optimization, and process improvements.
• Develop business cases and support sourcing recommendations for internal decision-making at the management team (MT) level.
• Monitor production post-launch to build Product Cost Roadmaps and drive continuous cost, quality, and risk improvement initiatives.
• You’ll be part of a collaborative and international team based in Best (NL) which is part of a global team also located in China and India. You’ll work under the guidance of the local Procurement BP and collaborate with the global procurement team, supplier engineers, component management, and cross-functional project stakeholders involved in innovation and industrialization.