Personal Health Planning & Distribution Capabilities Leader

The Planning & Distribution Capabilities Leader is accountable for developing sustaining and scaling planning and distribution capabilities across Planning & Distribution to enable execution excellence and future readiness. The role ensures that planning and distribution fundamentals advanced capabilities and new ways of working are embedded adopted and matured across regions businesses and planning & distribution roles through impactful training clear standards and measurable maturity this role the Planning & Distribution Capabilities Leader expressly leverages (agentic) AI to optimize existing and new processes.

Own the endtoend Planning & Distribution Capability agenda across Demand Supply Inventory S&OP/S&OE and up- and mainstream Distribution Define and maintain a clear capability roadmap from fundamentals (systems processes) to futureready capabilities catering for the end-to-end value stream flow Develop Planning Principles & Policies governing systems operation rules and processes driving fit-for-purpose standards Shape Planning & Distribution organization and roles design embedded with journey towards world-class capabilities Build a strong future-ready Planning Capabilities team able to drive capability design adoption and maturity at scale Deliver impactful training with clear curricula and comprehensive content enabling planners confidence & sustained adoption Anchor capabilities into S&OP and S&OE through training and assessment enabling operational drumbeat Own capability funnel management with effective governance & strong orchestration across stakeholders driving from demand intake through adoption Lead and steer cross-functional support to drive the end-to-end Planning Capability program with consistent priority robust tracking and transparent communication Deliver value realization from capabilities investment driven with robust sets of leading and lagging indicators Leverage digital and AI capabilities to scale learning & insights drive productivity and accelerate decision-making Act as a thought leader in planning excellence influencing stakeholders at all levels driving change management Own and drive a 360 degree inventory approach and lead the inventory workstream for PH

Requirements Skills & Experience

Professional Experience

• 15 years of experience in Planning Supply Chain Transformation or Planning Excellence roles within complex global organizations.

• Proven experience working across endtoend planning (Demand Supply Inventory S&OP/S&OE Distribution) with strong understanding of both macro (strategic longterm) and micro (operational executionlevel) perspectives.

• Demonstrated success in leading largescale capability transformation or excellence programs from design through full adoption.

• Proven expertise in the field of applied AI in Planning and/or Distribution.

Leadership Problem Solving & Execution

• Strong lean leadership and structured problemsolving capabilities with the ability to challenge the status quo and drive higher quality standards.

• Proven ability to sense assess and manage risks early using data leading indicators and forwardlooking insights.

• Disciplined in PDCA monitoring ensuring initiatives are followed through until completion and sustainable results are achieved.

• Experience with scenario planning and tradeoff decisionmaking particularly in uncertain and complex environments.

People Stakeholder & Talent Management

• Strong experience in people development and talent management including building highperforming teams and futureready capabilities.

• Excellent people and stakeholder management skills able to orchestrate across functions regions and levels of seniority.

• Recognized as a storyteller and influencer capable of translating complex topics into clear compelling narratives.

• Outstanding communication skills able to adapt messaging effectively for senior leaders experts and operational teams.

Program Orchestration & Change Leadership

• Proven capability to orchestrate complex crossfunctional initiatives aligning priorities dependencies and stakeholders.

• Strong change management experience embedding new ways of working into operational rhythms and behaviors.

• Comfortable working in environments requiring continuous learning with high personal learning agility and curiosity mindset.

Strategic Orientation & External Perspective

• Strong orientation toward longterm planning and capability sustainability beyond shortterm delivery.

• Ability to build and leverage networks across the organization and externally including benchmarking and collaboration with external companies partners or thought leaders.

How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. This is an office based role. For our office-based teams this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.

About Philips
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