Material Planner

As a Material Planner, you will ensure material availability, optimize inventory, manage supplier relationships, and support product lifecycle processes, enabling efficient and resilient global supply chains.

Your role:

• Drive global inventory analysis and replenishment policies, including supplier-managed inventories.
• Act as the central contact for global and cross-site suppliers, ensuring alignment, collaboration, and performance.
• Lead product lifecycle management (PLM) and NPIs, securing timely deliverables and supporting quality standards.
• Design inventory strategies, identify optimization opportunities, and transform supply chain insights into actionable solutions.
• Monitor and manage OMM KPIs, drive corrective actions, and support production ramp-up activities.
• Validate supplier orders, expedite when necessary, and ensure ERP/MDM data accuracy.
• Identify and mitigate shortage risks, conduct cross-functional shortage review meetings, and build risk management strategies.
• Lead process improvements, root cause analysis, and supplier performance reviews to strengthen supply chain resilience.
• Manage a diverse portfolio of materials – from sourcing to delivery – while balancing efficiency, cost, and compliance.
• Contribute to customer satisfaction, operational excellence, and cost efficiency across the global Philips supply chain.

You're the right fit if you have:

• Minimal 2 years experience with a Bachelor’s OR 1 year with a Master’s in material planning, supply chain management, or related fields.
• Strong analytical skills, advanced Excel (mandatory), ERP (SAP advantage), fluent English (written and spoken), organizational and problem-solving abilities.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Economics, Operations Research, Data Analytics, or equivalent.
• Strong business acumen, ability to work independently and collaboratively in a global environment, with proven cross-functional collaboration skills.

Please submit your application in English.

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.

This role is onsite, based in Philips Healthcare, Haifa.

About Philips

We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• Learn more about our purpose.

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. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.

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About Us

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights on Precision Diagnosis, Image Guided Therapy, Enterprise Informatics, Monitoring/ Connected Care, Sleep & Respiratory Care and Personal Health.

Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success.

It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism.

To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance.

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