Senior Consumer Marketing Manager Grooming

Philips is seeking a Senior Consumer Marketing Manager Grooming to join the OneGrooming business within the Business Group Grooming & Beauty at the Philips Headquarters in Amsterdam.

In this role, you have the opportunity to contribute to improving people's health & well-being through meaningful innovation while advancing your career in a global environment. You will enter a fast-paced, multinational environment and report to the Consumer Marketing Director, working with stakeholders based in the Netherlands and in key overseas markets (e.g., marketing specialists, key account managers). Philips is a leader in this segment with a healthy business and ambitious future global plans.

Your role

As a Senior Consumer Marketing Manager Grooming, you will focus on:

• Product Development: Steer the integral product development process from start to end, taking initial ideas through to product development and market introduction, including communication.

• Cross-functional Interaction: Interact with various disciplines including Innovation, Technology & Development departments, internal and external design agencies, manufacturing units or external suppliers, marketing management, marketing communication, and international sales organizations.

• Portfolio Management: Maximize the performance of already existing products and portfolios through commercial innovation whilst phasing out old/underperforming ones to optimize integral business performance.

• Market Analysis: Analyze the market, competition, technology, and developments to find new business opportunities with new product-market combinations within the business strategy.

• Strategic Planning: Identify new adjacencies and value spaces for the business category to explore potential growth opportunities. Build a solid roadmap to unlock incremental value by leveraging these new adjacencies.

• Go-to-Market Strategy: Define go-to-market requirements to play and win in each category, including defining NPI criteria for launch, preparing, and handshaking launch and GTM plan with regions.

• Commercial Strategy: Create and drive dedicated commercial strategies for the existing and new portfolio. Define global portfolio channelization for the consolidated portfolio via ZBA methodology by understanding key price points, the role of each customer, commercial strategy, among others in all key regions, as part of the go-to-market plan.

You're the right fit if

• A completed Master's degree in Business Administration, Marketing, or related fields with an excellent academic track record (an MBA is an extra asset).

• 8-10 years of experience in a (preferably matrixed) international business environment in the field of consumer marketing or product management (experience with personal care products is a plus).

• Experience with product development and product launches from start to finish.

• Experience with translating market research and shopper insights into product concepts and new propositions.

• Proven track record with global consumer/retail brands with a demonstrated ability to work with multiple and diverse markets.

• Highly entrepreneurial; both analytical and hands-on in driving business growth (result-oriented).

• Ability to think creatively whilst being firm enough to make, and act upon, clear decisions.

• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work with people of different seniority and backgrounds, informing, influencing, convincing, presenting, and managing projects.

• Business fluency in English (written & verbal) and one other language as an advantage.

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.