Procurement Industrial Placement

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About Philips

As a world leader in the fields of healthcare, and consumer lifestyle, Philips is present in 150 countries and has around 121,000 employees. Philips teams are a force with a mission: to improve the quality of life for everyone. By designing products and services that are innovative, easy to use and meet the needs of the population. With nearly 4,000 patents in 2008 and over 60,000 in our portfolio, Philips is recognized as one of the most innovative companies in the world.

Procurement Industrial Placement

What is Procurement?

The main aim of procurement is to save the business money, whether that be the price of goods/services, the total cost of ownership and the quality/risks associated. We manage supplier relationships, internal stakeholder relationships, numerical target metrics and so much more to ensure that we are getting the best price, quality and level of risk for any products/services we need.

At Philips, we incorporate ownership and innovation into everything we do. Within your role you will get the chance to run your own projects, create/manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders and be given the freedom to explore your own ideas on how to improve our business.

• Duration: 1 year
• Available from July 2017

Your key responsibilities

• Support negotiations with 3rd party suppliers
• Identify opportunities for cost savings through analysis of spend data and knowledge of supply base
• Manage approved supplier list
• Contract management
• Ensure compliance to Philips policies
• Collection of requirements from different teams
• Analyze current One off product purchases process and make it leaner
• Guidance and support to internal stakeholders on P2P processes and other procurement policies
• Tender support
• Purchase order approvals for low value items
• Supporting procurement specialists and running your own one-off project

Benefits

• The opportunity to learn more about Procurement in terms of its importance as a supporting business function, as well as being equipped with transferrable corporate knowledge, skills and experience.
• Agile working environment policy: being able to work anywhere in the office or even be able to ‘work from home’.
• 25 Days of Annual Leave from when you start.
• The Philips Employee Shop allows employees to buy Philips products at discounted prices.
• Learning and development opportunities through our Philips University
• Subsidised Café promoting healthy eating and wellbeing at the Guildford Business Park.
• Social Events – Philips has a dedicated working relationship with Holiday Inn Gym so you’re able to participate in social sporting events at discounted rates.

We are looking for

To be successful in this internship we are looking for you to be:

• Currently studying towards your Bachelor in:
  • Business Management
  • Business Economics
  • Management Sciences
  • Economics
• Are fluent in oral and written English
• Good proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite particularly in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Ability to work effectively when working in a team environment as well as being able to deliver good individual results.
• You are naturally curious, independent and want to work in a dynamic environment where you can interact with many people in the UK and abroad.
• Business Acumen
• Ambitious and driven
• Emotionally intelligent
• Good problem solving skills and analytical
• On route to achieving a 2:1 or higher
• Self-starter

There are two placement roles available for the 2017/18 year.

How to apply

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