Material Planner & Buyer Coordinator

Philips; Batam; On-site; USD 12.000 - 20.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health technology company is looking for a Material Planner & Buyer Coordinator in Batam, Indonesia. You will analyze pricing offers, negotiate with suppliers, and manage inventory systems, ensuring cost-effectiveness and efficiency. If you have a degree, with experience in data analysis and inventory management, we encourage you to apply and join our mission to facilitate quality healthcare access.

Qualifications

• Experience in data analysis interpretation, inventory management, MDM, and purchase order management.
• Exposure to a manufacturing environment is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyze offers and perform price analysis to ensure competitive pricing.
• Negotiate with suppliers and monitor costs for compliance.
• Coordinate logistics and liaise with procurement negotiations.

Skills

Data analysis interpretation

Inventory management

Master data management (MDM)

Purchase order management

Education

Diploma or bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Title

Material Planner & Buyer Coordinator

Job Description

Your role:

• Analyzes offers and performs comparison price analysis. Ensures a good competitive price, with a minimum of 2 quotations, and performs price analysis through price comparison. Online/market price should be targeted with a 10-12% increase unless exceptions are specified in the NON BOM Workflow.
• Negotiates with suppliers, referencing online market prices when necessary, and nominates suppliers.
• Monitors and controls costs, challenging work requests from users to confirm necessity.
• Coordinates with the team to negotiate price reductions and follow-ups.
• Ensures supplier compliance with requirements (aiming for 100% understanding of specifications to avoid wrong part supply).
• Liaises with global procurement negotiations for certain thresholds.
• Classifies suppliers into three categories based on purchase cycle time: critical (1 day or less), urgent (5-8 days), and normal (over 8 days).
• Coordinates logistics with SCM to set up storage for equipment and tools purchased in bulk from China.
• Works with factory operations to determine equipment and tools to acquire from China.

You're the right fit if:

• Hold a diploma or bachelor's degree.
• Have experience in data analysis interpretation, inventory management systems, master data management (MDM), inventory management, and purchase order management.
• Have exposure to a manufacturing environment.

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 at the company’s facilities. Field roles are typically performed outside the main facilities, often at customer or supplier locations.

About Philips

We are a health technology company committed to ensuring that everyone has access to quality healthcare. Join us in doing the work of your life to help others.

• Learn more about our business.
• Discover our history.
• Learn about our purpose.

If interested and you meet many of the requirements, we encourage you to apply. You may be suitable for this or other roles at Philips. We are committed to diversity and inclusion.