Sr. Portfolio Lifecycle & Pricing Manager

Sr. Portfolio Lifecycle & Pricing Manager

Your challenge:

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The Senior Portfolio Lifecycle & Pricing Manager is responsible for the commercial & operational efficiency of the Philips Avent business portfolio across global markets. He/she leads the phase-in/phase-out management and focus on driving portfolio performance improvement through our KPI “Portfolio Productivity” and functional efforts that deliver portfolio efficiency and cost saving.

The Mother & Childcare team within Philips Personal Health. You report directly to the MCC Business Portfolio Leader and part of the MCC Business Portfolio team responsible for commercial & operational efficiency and consistency of business portfolio across global markets

Your role:

• Defining the global portfolio channelization strategy via price-pack portfolio architecture methodology
• Maximizing the value of the portfolio through increasing the portfolio productivity through monitoring the portfolio performance, identifying the weeds, seeds & blossoms and driving actions through the E2E teams
• The short-term business unit level performance, portfolio productivity KPI review & corrective action plans.
• Act as a custodian of the global Commercial Pricing Policy, support the business / x-category teams with operational pricing activities to ensure business continuity
• Facilitates line chart process between the business and our sales regions
• Manage pricing exceptions on RRP and 3net level for promotions, aging & excess stock, phase-out, and COOP, by strongly collaborating with E2E business stakeholders and ensure feedback loop on price setting quality, in order to drive number of pricing exception requests down
• Supports E2E business stakeholders with portfolio metrics measurement & analytics, roadmap maintenance and troubleshooting, facilitation of operational processes (phase-in, phase-out, BRC action plans where relevant, troubleshooting across product characteristics etc.)
• Manage X category 18 months phase-in phase-out roadmap and its execution of price pack architecture, NPI and phase out on 12NC level
• Manage phase-in/phase-out process timelines and requirements and facilitates decision-making/exception management through data analysis/decision-making enablement
• Reports on portfolio management KPIs/processes

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, or applicable discipline; MBA preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in portfolio management, supply chain business & data analytics and/or supply & operations planning
• CPG experience required – FMCG experience preferred
• Exhibits passion for data analytics and data-driven decision making
• Demonstrated ability to lead, influence and work with all levels in a complex matrixed organization, including senior leadership.
• Proven leadership ability with a demonstrated high level of integrity, and the willingness to take ownership & accept responsibility and make decisions for expedient problem resolution.
• Exhibits high personal performance standards, the desire and ability to continuously learn, adapt and lead with an enterprise mindset, unwilling to accept status quo.
• Working knowledge of the latest portfolio management practices within the CPG industry
• 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.

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.

About Philips
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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.

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