Philips - Head - Warehousing & Distribution

About the Organization

Philips India Limited is a subsidiary of Royal Philips of the Netherlands, a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology and deep clinical and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions. The company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care.

Job Title : Head Warehousing & Distribution

Job location : Gurgaon, NCR

Reports to : Head - Supply Chain, Personal Health

In this role. you will be responsible for :

- PAN India Warehousing and Distribution (14 WHs across India)

- Transportation from factories to WH, imports from Global factories to India

- Secondary transportation to around 1000+ customer locations, exports to SAARC

- Interface sales channels, customers, Fiscal, Legal, IMPEX, Finance & control, and service providers at local and global level

- Team coaching, development and management (6 DRs and 1 dotted line on-roll, 100+ off role/3PL resource management)

- Warehousing and transportation budget management and control (Monthly, quarterly and annually) cost reduction while improving customer SLAs

- Maintenance of stock Hygiene across WHs, adherence to Philips audit and compliance processes and policies

- 3PL operations, escalations, KPI, contract and performance Management

- Monthly operational and quarterly Business reviews

- KPIs validation, timely bonus/penalty implementation, claims settlement and service invoice validation

- RCA and CAPA of operational issues, reduction of damages, strategize, develop and implement re-packaging & late customization capabilities in the WHs

- Interface global Integrated Warehousing and Distribution team, implement global initiatives, own Market Plan of record

- Implementation of lean warehousing and operations, Daily management, 6S etc. to meet and exceed global standards

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience :

- At least 10+ years of proven working experience in Warehousing/Distribution/logistics

- Master's degree in Business Administration, Logistics or Supply Chain

- Record of successful distribution and logistics management

- Demonstrable ability to lead a team

- Excellent analytical, problem solving and organizational skills

- Ability to work independently and handle multiple projects

- Having strong communication skills to manage the internal and external stakeholder expectations

- Good commercial and business understanding