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O2C Process Excellence Lead

On-site · Böblingen, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany

Type
Full Time
Level
Senior Level
Education
Bachelors Degree
Company size
Unknown

Job Summary

Lead global, technology-enabled supply chain transformation across end-to-end O2C processes (Plan, Source, Make, Deliver, Order Management and Customer Service), driving harmonized processes, controls, and ways of working across businesses, functions, and markets. Drive simplification, standardization, and automation-by-design principles across the transformation portfolio. Own the end-to-end transformation roadmap for order-to-cash processes, covering process, data, technology, governance, and organizational readiness, and translate strategic priorities into a practical multi-year deployment plan. Lead global template design and process standardization, ensuring regulatory, financial, quality, and compliance requirements are embedded into process models, ERP & AI solutions, controls, and role design. Drive business architecture and process-to-system alignment in partnership with enterprise functions, IT and BPE, ensuring process intent is accurately reflected in ERP configuration, data objects, integrations, and operating procedures. Establish and lead robust transformation governance, including scope management, design authority, change control, dependency management, risk management, and executive decision support. Oversee major deployment milestones including solution validation, UAT, cutover readiness, hypercare, and stabilization to ensure successful go-lives and sustainable business adoption. Lead change management and business readiness activities, including stakeholder alignment, training strategy, communications, local deployment readiness, and incorporation of feedback into continuous improvement. Track performance, adoption, and benefits realization through KPIs and operational measures, using insights to improve execution reliability, service, quality, and user experience. Partner with senior leadership to resolve critical transformation issues, align cross-functional priorities, and influence enterprise decisions that shape future process and systems capabilities. Build long-term organizational capability by fostering Communities of Practice, supporting talent development and succession planning, and embedding standardized, scalable ways of working. Monitor external trends and leading practices in supply chain, ERP, and digital transformation to continuously improve competitiveness, resilience, and business value. You’re the right fit if you have: You have 20+ years of experience in global program leadership, business transformation, change management, business process management, and technology-enabled transformation. You have proven success leading large-scale business transformation programs, ideally including template-based deployments across multiple countries, business units, and functions. You bring deep experience in SAP and S/4HANA transformation, including process design, rollout governance, deployment planning, cutover, stabilization, and value realization. You have strong business architecture capability and can translate strategic business priorities into scalable process, data, and technology solutions. You possess broad end-to-end supply chain knowledge spanning planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, order management, and customer service. You have experience leading complex stakeholder environments and influencing senior executives across business and IT functions. You have strong capability in process harmonization, simplification, controls design, and continuous improvement in regulated and operationally complex environments. You bring experience in ERP risk management, transition management, and contingency planning for business-critical deployments. You have a solid understanding of ERP architecture, integrations, testing, data readiness, and deployment dependencies. You have a track record of building high-performing teams, developing talent, and driving organizational adoption during large-scale transformation. You demonstrate excellent communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to align diverse stakeholders around a common transformation agenda. You hold a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field. Relevant certifications in program management, architecture, agile, or change leadership are considered a plus. How we work together We believe that we are better together than apart. This role is an office-based role, which means working in person at least three days per week. About Philips We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won’t stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others. • Learn more about our business. • Discover our rich and exciting history. • Learn more about our purpose. If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion here. At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life. For more than 130 years, we have been creating technologies and innovations that improve people's lives and support healthcare practitioners. Headquartered in the Netherlands and operating in more than 100 countries globally, we focus our 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. Together, we deliver better care for more people because we believe that every human matters. That's why we're taking steps to create an environment where we acknowledge and embrace our differences and uniqueness and listen to and value each other's views. When people feel cared for and listened to, they bring their best qualities to work, leading to better collaboration, communication, innovation and success. It is the policy of Philips to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy/childbirth or related medical conditions, age, ethnic or national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, genetic information, citizenship status, veteran or military status, marital or domestic partner status or any other characteristic protected by law. As an equal opportunity employer, Philips is committed to fostering a culture where all are treated with respect and professionalism. To ensure reasonable accommodations for individuals protected by Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, the Vietnam Veterans' Readjustment Act of 1974 and Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, applicants that require accommodation in the job application process may contact 888-367-7223, option 5, for assistance. Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace. Know Your Rights

Required Qualifications

  • 20+ years of global program leadership experience
  • Proven success leading large-scale business transformation programs
  • Experience with SAP and S/4HANA transformation (process design, rollout governance, deployment planning, cutover, stabilization, value realization)
  • Strong business architecture capability with ability to translate priorities into scalable process/data/technology solutions
  • Broad end-to-end supply chain knowledge across planning, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, order management, and customer service
  • Experience leading complex stakeholder environments and influencing senior executives across business and IT functions
  • Experience in process harmonization, simplification, controls design, and continuous improvement in regulated environments
  • ERP risk management, transition management, and contingency planning for critical deployments
  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field
  • Relevant certifications in program management, architecture, agile, or change leadership are considered a plus
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