Phd On Purchasing Strategies to Enable Circularity

6 maanden geleden

Rotterdam, Nederland Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam Voltijd

**Job description**:
While the goal of healthcare is to maintain or improve the quality of life of individuals and populations, it is at the same time a sector with significant negative impact on the environment. The healthcare sector is a considerable contributor to climate change and biodiversity loss, and therefore harms population health through the same activities with which it tries to improve.

Looking at hospitals in the Netherlands (as in many other countries), their value chain is mostly a linear system in which many single-use disposable products are procured and used, like gloves, syringes, infusion bags, catheters, video laryngoscopes, robot surgery consumables, consoles, sensors, cables and multiple layers of packaging. Medical consumables and their packaging require substantial amounts of energy and use of (virgin) materials during their production and are often disposed of after single-use. As most of the hospital waste is incinerated, the value of the materials is destroyed. Even worse, due to extremely strict protocols focused on efficiency and infection prevention, many consumables are disposed of without being used at all, still in their unopened, original packaging. Given the current climate
- and resource crisis, there is an urgent need for a more circular approach concerning material use in the healthcare sector, based on three core principles: (1) design out waste and pollution, (2) keep products and materials in use, and (3) regenerate natural systems.

The implementation of circularity requires changes in various areas, calling for transdisciplinary research. Implementation of circularity in hospitals requires attention to behaviour of healthcare staff on the shopfloor, regulation and policy governing healthcare, product design, and also purchasing and supply (chain) management (PSM). Purchasing and supply management goes well beyond just negotiating and ordering and is meant to encompass all elements of the purchasing process, including demand management, specification, supplier selection (incl. tendering), contract management and supplier relationship management.

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR), in particular Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) participates in work package 4 (WP4) of the ESCH-R project together with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). The aim of WP4 is to identify Business Models and accompanying ecosystem designs along with relevant Purchasing and Supply Management (PSM) strategies that create economic and environmental value for stakeholders along the value chain. The PhD project at ESHPM will focus on the development of viable PSM strategies for supply chain partners to enable circularity in the hospital value chain. The execution of this project demands close collaboration with a PhD researcher at TU/e, faculty at TU/e and EUR-ESHPM, purchasers at Erasmus MC and UMC Utrecht, suppliers of medical devices and other consortium partners.

**Job requirements**:
We are looking for someone who is not only academically talented but also able to critically assess the sustainability of healthcare. If you are ready to take on this challenge and contribute to a project with far-reaching impact, we encourage you to apply.

You, as a successful applicant, will perform the research project outlined above in an international team. The research will be concluded with a PhD thesis. The project is supervised by Prof. dr. ir. Erik M. van Raaij with further members of the supervisory team to be decided later. The tasks include:

- further developing and implementing the PhD trajectory;
- publishing scientific articles and a dissertation on the research;
- developing tools (e.g., a toolkit, e-learning, podcast) to disseminate the knowledge from the project;
- initiating and participating in knowledge transfer to external parties;
- following additional training in research methods and theories;
- providing education within ESHPM for approximately 15% of the appointment.

**Requirements**:

- You hold (or are close to finishing) a Master’s degree in Purchasing Management, Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Industrial Design, Sustainability, Healthcare Management or a related discipline.
- You have a strong affinity with interdisciplinary research and working with academics as well as key stakeholders in the field, preferably in the healthcare sector.
- You have affinity and experience with procurement, supply chain management or value chain design.
- You have strong analytical skills and demonstrated research competences for performing qualitative, quantitative and design science research.
- You have the ability to work in a multidisciplinary team, and navigating and managing complex, multi-stakeholder settings involving technology experts, industrial partners, and other societal stakeholders.
- You like to take initiative and you are able to work on a challenging topic that has both basic and applied research aspects.
- You have excellen

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