Philips Marketing Manager Male Grooming 

Kenya, Nairobi County 

518412825

Marketing Manager, Male Grooming

In this role, you have the opportunity to

• Be part of the male grooming team, the key category within Philips Personal Health portfolio. You will report to the Senior Marketing Manager and lead a team to collaborate with many other teams including Innovation Marketing, Sales, E-commerce, Finance etc.
• To further drive a solid foundation business into a new growing momentum and expand the size of shaver category
• To bring out new way of modelling and approach in a commercial perspective from brand to business together to embrace Philips transformation

You are responsible for

• As business owner for youth line shaver sub-categories who manages business and sales, portfolio, innovation landing, commercial approach in end to end spectrum
• Achieving business success for sub-categories by crafting and leading the delivery of locally relevant go-to-market plans of existing and new products, with well positioned target audience, product message, commercial promotion
• Assisting in manage the marketing budget, and being accountable for the top and bottom - line category results
• Assisting in manage a full range of product portfolio, which includes the original line and NPI with targeted business approach to maintain business foundation and drive incremental opportunities
• Monitoring market trend and providing business/marketing solutions by full understanding on competition movement, consumer insight and channel dynamics
• As a team leader who manages and coaches a small group of team members to achieve team success in terms of project delivery and people capability development
• Shaping and nurturing dynamic relationships with local sales, internal marketing teams and other functions such as supply chain and finance

You are a part of

You will report to the Male Grooming Marketing Director and collaborate with many other teams including Digital marketing, PR, E-commerce, Sales, Finance etc.,

To succeed in this role, you should obtain the key competency and experience below

• A Bachelor’s degree (Business-related degree preferred)
• Minimum of 6~8 years’ experience in brand marketing and business management in the FMCG/ Skincare / Cosmetics industry including P&L management for a business category, minimum of 2 years being in managerial position
• Demonstrate a strong growth mindset with entrepreneurial attitude to drive for excellence
• Proven successful case in terms of new product launch and business management
• Experienced in developing commercial plan from business and marketing perspective, go to market planning, campaign activation execution, monitoring and evaluation of campaign
• Good analytical skills from data mining, insight exploration, issue & opportunity identification, conclusion / action development
• Ability to think from a broader commercial perspective out of marketing / branding, and strategically, creatively that focused on opportunity and growth
• Good people management skills
• Fluency in written/spoken English and Mandarin

In return, we offer you

A path towards your most rewarding career. Philips is growing its marketing capability enterprise wide. Succeeding in this market-based role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. Thus, we offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities.

• A professional but fun workplace, A healthy work-life balance environment;
• An energetic, genuine, inventive, supportive and dynamic team atmosphere;