Sr. Procurement Engineer (sr. Manager Level) - Personal Health Value Architect

Philips UK

Shenzhen, China
Design for excellence (dfx)
Value engineering
Early supplier involvement
You lead DfX and value engineering, drive early supplier involvement, and ensure sourcing readiness from early concept through industrialization and lifecycle optimization—designing-in cost, quality, sustainability and resilience

Job Summary

  • You lead DfX and value engineering, drive early supplier involvement, and ensure sourcing readiness from early concept through industrialization and lifecycle optimization—designing-in cost, quality, sustainability and resilience.
  • As Senior Procurement Engineer, you will lead value creation in innovation and development programs by combining technical depth, commercial sharpness, influence and stakeholder leadership, and supplier co-creation.
  • You will be embedded in the Philips Innovation Center in Shenzhen, working side-by-side with our cross-functional innovation community (R&D, Marketing, Quality, SCM) and connected into the global Direct Procurement organization.

Matching Summary

You lead DfX and value engineering, drive early supplier involvement, and ensure sourcing readiness from early concept through industrialization and lifecycle optimization—designing-in cost, quality, sustainability and resilience.

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Design for Excellence (DfX)
  • Value Engineering
  • Early Supplier Involvement
  • Should-cost modelling
  • BOM cost governance
  • Supplier co-creation
  • Product cost governance

Nice-to-have

  • AI-enabled ways of working
  • LLM/AI prompting experience
  • Agentic workflows
  • Sustainability expertise

Key Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Engineering
  • 7–10+ years experience
  • Fluent in Mandarin and English
  • Willingness to travel 20%

Work Rights

Not specified

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