Philips Commercial Operations Manager 

Kenya, Nairobi County 

741859731

Commercial Operations Manager

You are responsible for

• Managing multiple sets of data to create effective and transparent market information for commercial planning
• The analysis of market developments and distribution channels, including developments of the competition
• Measuring sales performance vs business targets, deep dive into distribution channels with action plans for improvement
• It can also include market investigations, necessary for the cooperation with large (international) key accounts e.g. disease areas and potential for market growth
• Forecasting market developments in a structured and transparent way, which is split into timely short-term forecasting as input for central planning as well as timely mid-term forecasting
• Forecasting as input for the AOP and RoFo
• Creating specific business reports and able to communicate the outcomes to the business

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

• Analytical skills – ability to manage and process data and translate this in to commentary
• Confidence in having dialogue and presenting insights to senior stakeholders
• High level of attention to detail
• Planning and organizing capability
• Functional and technical skills for information, data and systems
• Experience with SAP/Excel very desirable

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;