Philips Business Category Leader Mother Child Care Women ’ Health 

Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam 

373520999

Mother and Child Care (MCC) and Women’s Health (WH)is end-to-end accountable for the strategic commercial success of the category throughout the entire lifecycle.As a critical and influential member of the MCC & WH Leadershipensuring the excellent execution of all critical global enablers to achievesignificant resultsthat align with the organization’s overarching goals.

& empoweringall to deliver on Brand Strength, Household Penetration, Consumer Lifetime Value, Market Share, Financial, ESG,and People KPIs. They will inspire the organization to thinkcapitalizing on the changing needs of consumers in parenting.

Your Role

• Executes short- to mid-term strategies to achieve substantial results, ensuring alignment with and support of theMCC+WHsoverarching goals. A

• the development, maintenance, and presentation of comprehensive and robust Strategic Plan of Record, Annual Operating Plan,and Innovation BusinessCases to relevant stakeholders, ensuring they align with market dynamics/requirements andMCC+WHobjectives to support informed decision-making and strategic alignment.

• Drives the vision, ensuring alignment and understanding across all levels and stakeholders, andoverseessuccessful realization through comprehensive strategic planning, end-to-endproduct management, execution, and continuous oversight.

• Leverages consumer, professional, and customer research and insights, channel trends, current market conditions,and competitor information to unlock new ways that will drive competitive advantage and Category growth.

• leveragethe brand's ownability,and superior consumer and customer experience. Partner with Communications and Design to make these elementsa critical

• anagesandfosters a collaborative and high-performing environment,ensuring seamless coordination with other departments across the organization to drive integrated and effective outcomes.

• Governs strategies to enhance financial performance byoptimizingpricing structures, effectively managing costs, and ensuring strict adherence to budgets, continuouslymonitoringand adjusting to maximize overall profitability.

• Establishes targets for product quality throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring that these standards are met consistently,monitoringperformance and implementing improvements to enhance product excellence and reliability.

• Fewer, Bigger,Betterglobally scaled initiativesaimed atcreating an efficient portfolio and sustainable growth. Ensuring that these programsare executed efficiently,adhere to timelines, and meetdefinedconsumer and commercialobjectivesto drive growth and operational success.

• thecommercialization of the strategy.Owns commercial innovation needs specific to the District/Zone/Region,as applicable for Consumer products.

• Leads succession planning and comprehensive talent management,maintainshigh employee engagement,drivesemployee selection, performance management, compensation management, and career development in alignment with organizational operational goals

• E2E across MCC & WHandwith the Marketing, Sales, Strategy,and Process Centers of Excellence toleverageorganizational subject matterexpertise

• Sustains relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to secure support and buy-in andcommunicate

likely theright fit for the role if you possess

• , marketing, or applicable discipline; MBA preferred

• 15+ years of business experienceleading upstream, downstream,and/or functional teams,with aminimumof10 years in Brand Marketing,ideally intheFast MovingConsumer Packaged Goods (FMCG) industry

• the globalRetailer & Consumer Landscapewithdemonstratedapplication of insights and trends to uncover new business opportunities.Abilityto translate keycustomerneeds to all levels in the organization to ensure Philips Avent is seen as a preferred strategic partner

• Ability to recognize talent, cultivate excellence, and lead high-performingteams.Demonstrates excellent coaching, mentoring, and people development skills

• A seasoned leaderwho can support the team by helping them to prioritize, inspiring a growth mindset,and a “take-ownership” attitude.

• consumer-first and customer-centricsolutions with a strong knowledge of breakthrough innovation road-mapping andgo-to-market

• Working knowledge ofthelatestMedia, Digital, and Activation trends. Understanding of several business modelsisa plus (B2C, B2B, DTC, B2B2C)

• track recordof teaming up with R&D, Quality, Clinical,

• Strong financial acumen,

• candidate isresults-orientedwith a proventrack recordof delivering businessresults, with/biastoward driving actionwith a growth mindset

• Proven history of successfully drivingkey strategic initiatives within an organization beyond the immediate span of control. Leading,influencing,and workingwith all levels in a complex matrixed organization, including executive leadership

• Demonstrated expert written/verbal communication skills, and a proven capability to present complex concepts in a concise and understandable way to a variety of audiences, including the highest level of the organization and senior executives externally

• trongcross-functional collaboration and ability to partner, influence,and negotiate across a global organization

How we work together

This role ismeans workingin personat least 3 days per week.

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