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Continuous Improvement Lead
Continuous Improvement Lead-March 2024
Chennai (Ex Madras)
Mar 28, 2026
About Continuous Improvement Lead

  Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

  But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

  The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

  In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better

  Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

  You are responsible for

  KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES:

  Manages the deployment and embedding of new, critical capabilities brought by the business transformation portfolio of programs in line with Market, BG or Function’s needs Can maintain CI methodology and tools on one or more specific areas. Can decide and arrange specific Train the Trainer Sessions Can calibrate, assess and coach the organization in determining CI Maturity.

  KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

  Impact P&L: Sales EBITA Working Capital Cost of non-Quality Time to Market NPS Number of Problems Solved Number of Functions within the area adopting CI WoW.

  REQUIRED COMPETENCES:

  Understand P&L to drive Performance and Business Impact

  Drive Continuous Improvement

  Manage a Program or Project across B/R/F

  Deliver Outcome through others

  JOB OVERVIEW:

  Support the business in resolving issues, using the known lean and 6S tools and the CI methodology, Kaizen events and projects as a way to improve Quality, Delivery, Cost and Inventory within your assigned geography / business perimeter.

  Ensure your kaizen events – projects are properly planned / executed / sustainedDimensions related to Know-How, Complexity, and Accountability

  Drive continuous improvement

  Support a program or project across business, markets, functions

  Deliver outcomes through others

  Change Management, empathy & Interpersonal skills

  Influencing skills

  Minimum Education & Training Requirements

  Degree in Business or Engineering required; Master's Degree preferred

  At least 7 years relevant working experience in a global operating company in a regional or global role.Able to drive change with sense of urgency and bias for action

  Mastery of Philips Excellence Practices, esp. Lean, Continuous Improvement

  Always of a positive attitude

  You are a part of Prioritizes and drive performance improvements that will have the biggest overall impact on the business results and on delivering operational excellence to customers, by challenging the status quo, coaching, and embedding a mindset of continuous improvement to achieve performance excellence.

  To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following

  Dimensions Relating to Problem Solving: Thinking environment & -challenge

  Support a single departmental problem within BG/ Markets / Function Thinking outside of the box to deliver breakthrough. Turnaround of Teams and Businesses. Executes on methods and procedures on new, special and ordinary assignment

  In return, we offer you

  Work life balance with lot of learning , collaborating with team across market.

  How we work at Philips

  Our newly-adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.

  Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way.

  Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:

  We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone’s in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.

  We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn’t office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.

  We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

  Why should you join Philips?

  Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.

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