Catalog Lead - Philips - Best

Catalog Lead at Philips

In this role, you have the opportunity to

Business Unit Lead for Catalog Management is responsible for maintaining and optimizing the product catalog for a specific Business Unit. The lead plays a crucial role in ensuring that the catalog management processes are executed efficiently, meeting the needs of stakeholders and contributing to the overall success of the BU. As the direct report to the Cluster Lead, BU lead bridges the gap between day-to-day operations and strategic goals.

You are responsible for:

Operational Management:

• Oversee the daily operations of the catalog management team, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and completeness of the product catalog.
• Allocate tasks and responsibilities within the team, ensuring balanced workloads and adherence to deadlines.
• Monitor performance metrics, ensuring the team meets or exceeds service level agreements (SLAs) and key performance indicators (KPIs).

Stakeholder Coordination:

• Act as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders within the Business Unit, understanding their needs and translating them into catalog management requirements.
• Collaborate closely with product managers, marketing teams, and other relevant stakeholders to ensure the catalog reflects the most current and accurate information.
• Address and resolve any operational issues or escalations from stakeholders, ensuring their concerns are managed promptly and effectively.

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify opportunities for process improvements within the catalog management function, aiming to increase efficiency and reduce errors.
• Implement best practices and standard operating procedures (SOPs) across the team, ensuring consistency and high-quality output.
• Encourage team members to contribute ideas for improvements, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning.
• Lean practices

Team Leadership & Development:

• Provide guidance, coaching, and mentorship to team members, helping them develop their skills and advance in their careers.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations, offering constructive feedback and setting clear goals for individual and team performance.
• Ensure the team is well-trained and equipped with the necessary tools and knowledge to perform their roles effectively.
• Attrition management
• Talent development
• Capability enhancement

Collaboration on the cluster level:

• Work closely with the Cluster Lead to align the BU’s catalog management activities with broader cluster and organizational objectives.
• Provide regular updates and reports to the Cluster Lead, highlighting key achievements, challenges, and areas for improvement.
• Participate in strategic planning sessions, contributing insights from the BU level to inform cluster-wide initiatives.

Your team

You will lead a global team that is responsible to deliver commercial catalog for the Magnet Resonance business unit. Your catalog modelling team will be primarily located in Chennai and your peers are global from Singapore to Seattle.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need a customer-first attitude and the following:

Skills & Competencies:

• Operational Excellence: Strong ability to manage and optimize day-to-day operations within the catalog management function.
• Stakeholder Management: Proficient in engaging with and managing expectations of various internal stakeholders.
• Problem-Solving: Skilled at identifying issues and implementing effective solutions to ensure smooth operations.
• Team Leadership: Capable of leading and developing a team, fostering a supportive and high-performance work environment.
• Attention to Detail: Exceptional focus on accuracy and detail, crucial for maintaining a high-quality product catalog.

Experience:

• Extensive experience in catalog management, product data management, or a similar role within a shared services or centralized function.
• Experience leading a team or managing a small to mid-sized operational unit.
• Demonstrated success in process improvement initiatives and stakeholder management.

Personality Traits:

• Organized: Able to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively, ensuring nothing falls through the cracks.
• Proactive: Takes initiative to identify potential issues and address them before they escalate.
• Collaborative: Works well with others, actively seeks input from team members and stakeholders.
• Team Work within BU Cluster
• Detail-Oriented: Maintains a high standard of accuracy and quality in all aspects of work.
• Supportive: Invests in the development of team members, helping them grow and succeed in their roles.
• Effective communication

In return, we offer you:

A path towards your most rewarding career. 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. Furthermore, Philips University is available to all employees for learning and development opportunities.

Please note: For this position we do not offer relocation support.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to build a healthier society through meaningful work, passionate about improving 2.5 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.

Embrace the unexpected

Over 125 years ago, Frederik and Gerard Philips started a small light bulb company in Eindhoven. Little did they realize that it would become a global force of innovation, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide. But it did.

Today, Philips is a world leading health technology company with a vision to make life better for people worldwide through meaningful innovation. Making good on this promise depends on our passionate, inspirational, collaborative and diverse team.

We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more. Like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while transforming themselves personally and professionally.

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's an experience filled with unexpected moments that will transform you in lasting and positive ways. Help us improve the world for the better while building a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.