Regional Planner Americas

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Job Summary

Job Description

Join us to ensure critical healthcare equipment parts are available across the Americas—supporting patient care by driving parts planning excellence in the US, Canada, and Latin America. As the Regional Planner Americas, you will be part of the Service Parts Supply Chain (SPS) organization, supporting the full region. Your work directly supports clinicians, engineers, and patients who rely on functioning healthcare equipment. This role involves leading regional planning efforts, collaborating with cross-functional SPS teams, identifying stockouts, and representing SPS Planning across the Americas.
Must have:
  • Lead regional planning efforts, managing demand forecasting, stock target setting, and inventory levels.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional SPS teams to secure part availability and resolve escalations.
  • Use planning systems to identify stockouts and material availability risks.
  • Take ownership of corrective and preventive action plans across the region.
  • Represent SPS Planning, aligning with market-based inventory management strategies.
  • Contribute to projects driving structural and cross-regional improvements.
  • 5+ years of experience in supply chain planning or operations.
  • Proven expertise in using planning tools in a large, international environment.
  • Skills include working with advanced planning systems and SAP ERP.
  • Applying LEAN principles.
  • Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Planning, Operations, or a related field.
  • Analytical, detail-oriented planner with strong communication skills.
  • Cross-cultural sensitivity and ability to drive planning excellence.
Good to have:
  • Experience in healthcare or service logistics
  • SPM (Supply Planning Management) system experience

Job Details

Job Title

Regional Planner Americas

Job Description

Regional Planner Americas

Join us to ensure critical healthcare equipment parts are available across the Americas—supporting patient care by driving parts planning excellence in the US, Canada, and Latin America.

Your role:

  • As the Regional Planner Americas, you will be part of the Service Parts Supply Chain (SPS) organization, supporting the full region: United States, Canada, and Latin America (LATAM). Your work directly supports clinicians, engineers, and patients who rely on functioning healthcare equipment.
  • Lead regional planning efforts by managing demand forecasting, stock target setting, and overall inventory levels across the Americas using advanced planning tools and data analysis.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional SPS teams—including Strategic Planning, Supply Management, Master Data, and the ASAP Desk—to secure part availability and resolve escalations across diverse market dynamics.
  • Use planning systems to identify stockouts and material availability risks and take ownership of corrective and preventive action plans across the region.
  • Represent SPS Planning across the Americas, aligning with market-based inventory management strategies and contributing to projects that drive structural and cross-regional improvements.

You're the right fit if:

  • You’ve acquired 5+ years of experience in supply chain planning or operations, with proven expertise in using planning tools in a large, international environment.
  • Your skills include working with advanced planning systems (SPM preferred), SAP ERP, and applying LEAN principles; experience in healthcare or service logistics is a plus.
  • You have a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Planning, Operations, or a related field.
  • You’re an analytical, detail-oriented planner with strong communication skills, cross-cultural sensitivity, and the ability to drive planning excellence across a multi-country region.

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 role in Costa Del Este.

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 of healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help improve the lives of others.

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About The Company

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.

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