Regional Business Unit Leader Beauty, Growth Region

As a Regional Business Unit Leader for Beauty in the Growth Region at Philips, you will drive the go-to-market strategy for the assigned portfolio, ensuring alignment with the overall marketing strategy. You will be responsible for the business plan, collaborating with local marketing teams, and managing S&OP planning. This role involves deep consumer and category insights to create winning portfolios, flawless new product introductions, and effective omni-channel experiences. You will also manage campaign optimization and contribute to the Region and Business Leadership Teams.

Must Have

• Deliver the business plan for the Beauty Segment in the region and act as key interface to the global G&B BU teams
• Work closely together with the community of local CMM/BMMs
• Deliver 18 months S&OP planning (PxQ) in collaboration with S&OP Lead
• Drive Marketing Engagement and Planning for respective categories based on deep audience-specific insights
• Implement portfolio (phase in / out), pruning, perfect NPI execution, pricing, and promotion calendar
• Live and breathe the category specific shopper insights, delivering excellent shopper execution
• Drive campaign management and optimization
• Determine the professional audience strategy and implementation to drive MOR
• Responsible for end-to-end collaboration and planning for delivery and activation of innovations and commercial unlocks
• 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

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 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 Beauty 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 together

We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week. Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities. Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

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 here.
• Discover our rich and exciting history here.
• Learn more about our purpose here.

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.

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About Us

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.

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