Regional Business Unit Leader, Shaving Growth Region

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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 its not just what we do its who we are. We are 80000 wonderfully unique individuals with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers needs. Its 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. Thats 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 youll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

You will be responsible for the development and execution of the go-to-market approach of the assigned portfolio the associated products solutions and services in alignment with the Business and Region overall marketing strategy. Working closely with the Business to ensure that deep consumer and category insights of the Regions are reflected in the strategy a winning portfolio is created and flawless new product introductions are enabled.

You are responsible for

• Delivering the business plan for the Shaving Segment in the region and acts as key interface to the global G&B BU teams determining key enablers to win in the market.
• Works closely together with the community of local CMM/BMMs (level zone)
• Delivers 18 months S&OP planning (PxQ) in collaboration with S&OP Lead (SC)
• Drives Marketing Engagement and Planning for respective categories (focus on how to win for prioritized SOBs) based on deep audience-specific insights (consumer shopper professional) resulting in category specific omni-channel experience and shopper journeys for prioritized channels including A&P and media channel mix delivery against source of business (for annual planning)
• Implements portfolio (phase in / out) pruning perfect NPI execution pricing (local RRPs) recommends STTI levels to global BU and delivers promotion calendar across countries and channels
• Lives and breathes the category specific shopper insights delivering excellent shopper execution and fundamentals to step-up visibility in-store
• Drives campaign management and optimization (double hatted campaign / media managers with both local and category view).
• Determines the professional audience strategy and implementation to drive MOR
• As a member of both the Region Leadership Team and the Business Leadership Team responsible for end-to-end collaboration and planning for delivery and activation of innovations and commercial unlocks ensuring the needs of the region are fully incorporated into relevant PDLMs

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

• Breadth of experience including marketing and commercial
• Experience in leading marketing in complex organizations and / or experience in managing the commercial function in a large complex organization
• Strong business acumen and drive for excellence in execution
• Strong leadership and communication skills next to influencing skills and natural authority
• Leadership and enterprise mindset to guide others on areas of focus in E2E organization. Ability to inspire and lead teams develop talent and nurture an inspiring culture

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.

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: Theres a certain energy when everyones 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 isnt 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. Its 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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