Integrated External Relations Director jobs at Philips in Netherlands, Amsterdam

Your role:

Strategic Leadership

• Define and lead the digital consumer marketing strategy for the Grooming & Beauty category, aligned with front-end innovation and category growth priorities.
• Champion the integration of digital (apps) solutions, AI, and data-driven capabilities into consumer propositions and marketing execution.
• Act as a strategic partner to category, R&D, and commercial teams to ensure digital is embedded from ideation to market delivery.

Team & Capability Building

• Lead a high-performing team of Digital Consumer Marketing Managers (Grooming, Shaving, Beauty) and the Program Manager for New Business Models.
• Foster a culture of innovation, agility, and continuous learning within the team.
• Build internal capabilities in digital apps & solutions, data analytics, and AI-driven personalization.
• Lead cross-business programs enabling collaboration across business & driving innovation through common capabilities

Innovation & Execution

• Drive the development and implementation of digital-first consumer propositions and experiences.
• Translate consumer insights and market trends into actionable digital strategies.
• Ensure strong cohesion with front-end innovation, digital solutions, AI, and user research programs.

Performance & Optimization

• Define KPIs and success metrics for digital initiatives and ensure data-driven decision-making.
• Monitor and optimize digital marketing performance across channels and touchpoints.
• Collaborate with global and local teams to ensure market readiness and scalability of digital solutions.

You're the right fit if:

• Master’s degree in marketing, Digital Innovation, Business, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in digital consumer marketing, preferably within consumer good/FMCG/Consumer health or beauty/grooming industries.
• Proven track record of leading digital transformation and launching digital-first propositions.
• Strong understanding of digital ecosystems, AI, data analytics, and consumer engagement platforms.
• Proven track record of launching and scaling mobile applications to achieve top-tier rankings.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and working with product development, marketing, and design stakeholders in a global matrix environment.
• Excellent strategic thinking, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• A visionary mindset with the ability to translate strategy into execution.
• Deep consumer empathy and a passion for delivering exceptional digital experiences.
• A collaborative leadership style that inspires and empowers teams.
• A strong drive to innovate and challenge the status quo.
• You have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

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Investment Operations and Data Management

• Design, maintain, and improve robust tracking systems (primarily Excel-based) for all direct and fund investments, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and real-time visibility.
• Lead the development of a central Ventures Performance Dashboard with clearly defined KPIs to support executive-level oversight and strategic planning.
• Partner with investment managers to maintain and validate structured data assets such as cap tables, valuations, and financial metrics.

Operational Excellence and Process Design

• Drive continuous improvement in operational workflows across the investment lifecycle, including data handling, archiving, reporting, and compliance.
• Create and implement standard operating procedures (SOPs) to support consistent, repeatable, and auditable processes across the team.
• Develop and refine internal tools, templates, and documentation frameworks to support efficiency, transparency, and alignment.

Reporting, Governance, and Presentation Support

• Prepare periodic and ad hoc reporting for key stakeholders, including the Head of Ventures, Portfolio Working Group (PWG), Board of Management, Finance, and other executive bodies.
• Develop high-quality presentation materials that communicate investment performance, trends, and strategic insights.
• Support internal governance structures through agenda coordination, meeting documentation, and follow-up for PWG and other internal committees.

Stakeholder Collaboration and Cross-Functional Engagement

• Act as the operational liaison between Philips Ventures and internal departments such as Legal, Finance, Treasury, Accounting, and Tax to ensure smooth cross-functional coordination.
• Integrate operational insights into strategic discussions and decision-making processes, strengthening the team’s ability to act on data-driven priorities.

Tools & Systems Management

• Oversee third-party platforms such as PitchBook, Affinity, and other market intelligence and CRM tools.
• Manage access control, license usage, user support, and the evaluation of tools to ensure they effectively meet team requirements.

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, or a related field; MBA or advanced degree is a strong plus.
• Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in venture operations, investment management, corporate development, or FP&A, ideally within a venture capital, private equity, or corporate innovation environment.
• Proven success in designing, implementing, and scaling operational infrastructure to support investment decision-making, reporting, and governance.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders (e.g., Legal, Finance, Accounting, Tax) in a matrixed corporate setting.
• Familiarity with venture capital platforms and data tools such as PitchBook, Affinity, and cap table software is highly desirable.
• Expert-level Excel proficiency, with hands-on experience in financial modelling, investment tracking, and cap table management.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, capable of translating complex data into strategic insights and operational priorities.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to engage senior stakeholders, cross-functional teams, and external partners.
• Disciplined and detail-oriented, with a structured approach to process design, governance, and documentation.
• Proactive and self-directed, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
• Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments, with the agility to shift between strategic thinking and hands-on execution.

This role is an office role.

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Investment Strategy and Execution

• Identify, assess, and execute direct minority investments in promising early- and growth-stage health technology ventures.
• Source and evaluate venture capital funds aligned with Philips' strategic focus areas and investment criteria.
• Lead due diligence processes, including market, financial, technical, and legal analysis.
• Structure investment terms and lead negotiations in close collaboration with legal and finance teams.

Portfolio Management

• Serve as the primary contact for a portfolio of venture-backed companies and venture capital fund managers.
• Monitor financial and strategic performance of investments, including regular reviews and reporting.
• Support portfolio companies through board participation, strategic advice, and access to Philips' resources and networks.
• Drive value creation initiatives, including follow-on investments, partnerships, and exits.

Strategic Collaboration and Influence

• Collaborate with internal business units, innovation teams, and senior leadership to ensure strategic alignment of investments.
• Communicate portfolio insights and performance to executive stakeholders.
• Represent Philips Ventures externally at conferences, industry events, and within the venture capital ecosystem.

Governance and Process

• Contribute to the refinement and implementation of investment policies, decision-making frameworks, and governance models.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulations and reporting standards.

• Master’s degree in Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related field; MBA preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, or corporate development, with a demonstrated focus onHealth tech, MedTechor digital health.
• Proven success in sourcing, executing, and managing equity investments in early- and growth-stage startups and/or venture funds.
• Solid background in portfolio management, including value creation, governance, and exit strategy planning.
• Venture-Driven and Corporate-Savvy: Adept at navigating the dynamics of the venture capital ecosystem while aligning with the structure and strategic priorities of a corporate environment.
• Investment Acumen: Deep expertise in financial modelling, valuation methodologies, term sheet negotiations, and due diligence.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; capable of building trusted relationships with founders, investors, partners, and senior internal stakeholders.
• Strategic & Innovative Thinking: Ability to identify and translate external innovation into strategic opportunities for Philips.
• Entrepreneurial Drive: Proactive self-starter with a passion for innovation and emerging technologies. Thrives in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
• Collaborative Leadership: Hands-on and team-oriented, with experience working across diverse functions and geographies.
• Personal Integrity & Curiosity: Operates with high ethical standards, intellectual curiosity, and a strong sense of ownership.
• This is a global-facing role. Some international travel will be required to engage with portfolio companies, fund managers, and attend key events across the venture and innovation ecosystem.

This role is an office role.

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 .

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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 culture of impact with care .

Your challenge:

You will take end-to-end responsibility for strategic communications activities, designing and implementing campaigns that tell Philips’ story to key audiences across the globe with a focus on informed public, stakeholder, investor and societal audiences. You will play a key role in driving forward the transformation of our External Relations team in close partnership with the newly-appointed Head of External Relations.

Your role:

• Building connections and trust with the broadest and most extensive media and social media ecosystem possible, including key global media contacts, influencers, paid media partners and emerging audiences.

• Supporting the running of Philips’ busy newsroom, including media and influencer outreach and relationship-building.

• Playing a leading role in developing and running integrated reputation campaigns using a range of digital tools and partnerships to tell captivating stories at the speed of news.

• Creating, orchestrating and implementing reputation-focused campaigns that run over months, and developing and delivering fast-twitch content and story angles that play out over hours and days.

• Driving ROI in everything you do, from securing top-tier media coverage, earned social media that draws attention and in the design of integrated, measurable corporate reputation campaigns.

• Driving new ways of working across the communications value chain from audience definition and objective setting to content creation, activation, and project evaluation.

You're the right fit if:

• You're a team player who is eager to learn and embrace new channels, partnerships and content formats as we transform our communications ecosystem

• You have at least 7 years of experience in communications and media relations, including exposure to digital campaigning experience

• Your core skillset is in news generation, PR and media direct relationship management

• You are a strong communicator able to develop and implement strategic communication plans that align with business goals, as well as leading their implementation, including hand-on work at a high level of quality

• You speak native standard English and have a broad global perspective

• Desirable: you understand regulated industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals or healthcare.

• Desirable: you understand local Dutch media landscape

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We are looking for a strategic and visionary B2B marketing leader who thrives at the intersection of strategy and execution, who has experience marketing to healthcare professionals (HCP), in particular dental professionals, with a track record of excellence in:

• Leveraging HCP advocacy to drive consumer/patient purchase intent and accelerate retail sales
• Infusing dental industry insights and strategy across business groups, including cross-functional engagement with various product and marketing business leaders
• Driving global marketing programs and turnkey playbooks to drive regional alignment and harmonization of local activation plans
• Orchestrating end-to-end management of B2B programs across all markets.

Responsibilities

Develop long-term vision and strategic roadmap for B2B dental business

• Craft a strategic marketing and solutions roadmap for the B2B dental business, identify growth opportunities, leveraging market insights to drive Dental Professional engagement and recommendation, ensuring alignment with broader organizational strategies
• Spearhead global development of content marketing, product trial, and lead management programs to deliver comprehensive best practice playbooks to guide regional implementation
• Develop B2B performance marketing program, including turnkey playbook for regional implementation of lead management best practices

Strengthen end-to-end program management and regional collaboration

• Support cross-functional business initiatives and provide strategic dental insights to guide program creation, from ideation to implementation, ensuring alignment with overall business priorities
• Build strong connections with regional marketing and field consultation teams, ensuring strategic alignment, successful program activation, and KPI accountability

Build a high performing B2B marketing team

• Architect and lead a team of high-performing, global B2B marketers
• Actively develop and coach talent across global and regional teams

Skills & Experience Requirements

• 10-15 years of experience in B2B or HCP performance marketing within a global, matrix organization
• Advanced degree in Marketing, or equivalent experience; MBA preferred
• Proven track record of crafting a strategic B2B marketing roadmap in alignment with overall business strategy
• Ability to identify growth initiatives, deliver impactful global programs and excellence in regional implementation
• Proven delivery of global strategy and programs with turnkey playbooks for regional activation
• Experience in CRM/funnel management programs from lead acquisition to in-field engagement
• Success in building KOL networks aimed at attracting top professionals and enabling proactive brand advocacy

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Your role:

• Plan, control, and execute new business integration projects including issue tracking, risk management, and providing post-go-live support. Build user stories, perform gap analysis, develop UAT test scripts, and lead UAT and regression testing while communicating and documenting UAT plans, schedules, test cases, and implementation plans.
• Gather and document requirements for new functionalities or changes. Collaborate with IT on design and development, monitor progress, and manage implementations and document necessary process or technical changes.
• Address system issues reported by the operations team, propose solutions, and log issues in ServiceNow tools. Act as the first IT contact for technical issues and provide application support to the operations team while facilitating communication between business units and back-office IT to resolve issues.
• Update validated procedures with Quality and Regulatory teams. Analyze inefficiencies in existing processes and recommend changes to improve efficiencies and develop workflow diagrams, process models, and provide training materials for staff.
• Oversee business processes across various departments and functional areas; Finance, Marketing, Sales, IT, and Operations to streamline processes and improve productivity. Serve as a liaison to ensure process changes are understood and implemented and develop standard and ad hoc reports using various tools.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business Administration or equivalent experience
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in sales, finance or customer service environment
• Experience in SAP, Siebel and Salesforce configuration / maintenance skills
• Advanced with PC skills including MS Excel, Visio, Powerpoint, Tableau and PowerBI reporting experience is a plus
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this .

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.

This is an Office-based role.

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The pay range for this position in MA is $98,280 to $157,248.

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered. Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more. Details about our benefits can be found .

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case.

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future.

This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.