NPI Supply Chain Project Manager

Philips•Plymouth, MN

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role drives the end-to-end supply chain strategy for New Product Introductions (NPI), ensuring successful product launches at the right cost, capacity, and capability. The NPI Supply Chain Manager leads the supply chain workstream for new product launches and product transfers, ensuring materials, capacity, and supply base readiness from development builds through commercialization. They serve as the primary supply chain point of contact at the Plymouth site, partnering cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Operations, Procurement Engineering, Quality, and Service teams. The role involves developing and executing ramp-up and launch strategies that align demand, manufacturing capacity, and supplier capability to achieve cost of goods sold (COGS), service, and growth targets, as well as identifying risks across the order-to-fulfillment cycle, driving mitigation plans, and providing data-driven recommendations to leadership. The position also influences continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen processes, system readiness, and compliance in a highly regulated environment, with approximately 10% travel. Philips is a health technology company focused on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation, believing that every human matters and striving to provide access to quality healthcare globally. As a global health-tech leader, Philips focuses its 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, operating in over 100 countries.

Requirements

5+ years of experience across multiple supply chain functions (planning, buying, S&OP, logistics, industrialization, or related roles) within a regulated, high-volume industry such as medical devices or pharmaceuticals.
Cross-functional leadership skills.
Strong analytical capabilities.
Risk management skills.
Stakeholder engagement skills.
Experience working in enterprise systems.
Bachelor’s degree in Supply chain, Operations, Manufacturing, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
Proactive, detail-oriented problem solver with strong communication skills.
Ability to influence without direct authority in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Ability to successfully perform the minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation.
US work authorization is a precondition of employment.
Reside in or within commuting distance to Plymouth, MN.

Nice To Haves

Experience working in SAP (preferred).
Lean methodology knowledge or certification.

Responsibilities

Lead the supply chain workstream for new product launches and product transfers, ensuring materials, capacity, and supply base readiness from development builds through commercialization.
Serve as the primary supply chain point of contact at the Plymouth site, partnering cross-functionally with Marketing, Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Operations, Procurement Engineering, Quality, and Service teams.
Develop and execute ramp-up and launch strategies that align demand, manufacturing capacity, and supplier capability to achieve cost of goods sold (COGS), service, and growth targets.
Identify risks across the order-to-fulfillment cycle, drive mitigation plans, and provide data-driven recommendations to leadership.
Influence continuous improvement initiatives that strengthen processes, system readiness, and compliance in a highly regulated environment.