Portfolio Excellence Director – OneGrooming

The Portfolio Excellence Director – OneGrooming leads the commercial strategy, category performance, and portfolio execution for Philips OneGrooming globally, shaping how the brand wins in a fast-evolving Male Grooming landscape. This leader transforms consumer insights into market-winning propositions, ensuring the Grooming and OneBlade portfolios deliver profitable growth, global consistency, and local relevance across regions and channels.

With a strong background in the Personal Care industry and a deep understanding of emerging markets, online/offline retail ecosystems, and consumer behavior, the Director ensures Philips OneGrooming achieves sustainable competitive advantage through insight-led portfolio management, commercialization excellence, and strategic partnership.

Acting as the global business owner for Grooming and OneBlade portfolios commercialization, this role defines how Philips plays and wins across markets—aligning with the Consumer Marketing Directors – Grooming Category, OneBlade Category, and regional teams to ensure innovation, marketing, and commercial priorities translate into superior business results.

Your role:

1. Global OneGrooming GTM & Commercial Excellence

• Define and drive the global go-to-market strategy for the Grooming and OneBlade categories, ensuring alignment between innovation priorities, portfolio direction, and regional business ambitions.
• Establish launch frameworks, NPI readiness processes, and portfolio guidelines to maximize success in market.
• Set clear global standards for pricing, positioning, and promotional strategy, reinforcing brand equity and competitiveness.
• Lead portfolio channelization using ZBA methodology, optimizing the role of each customer, channel, and region.
• Develop and manage commercial scorecards and KPIs to measure execution, competitiveness, and profitability.

2. Portfolio Performance & Value Maximization

• Deliver profitable growth by optimizing assortment, pricing, and A&P investments across markets.
• Drive regular performance reviews and corrective planning through structured commercial governance processes.
• Identify and quantify growth opportunities by analyzing consumer, competitive, and category trends in collaboration with the Consumer Marketing Directors – Grooming Category and OneBlade Category.
• Partner with regional category and commercial excellence teams to ensure seamless in-market implementation.

3. Market & Customer Leadership

• Build strong relationships with global strategic customers (e.g. Amazon, WMT, MediaMarkt, Flipkart) to jointly drive category growth and market development.
• Co-create joint business plans and activation programs that reinforce Philips’ value proposition in both premium and mass retail environments.

4. Leadership & Influence

• Act as a global integrator across marketing, commercial, and regional functions, driving alignment behind the growth agenda.
• Mentor and develop regional commercial and category excellence teams, building strong capability in beauty, consumer centricity, and portfolio management.
• Lead with vision, clarity, and collaboration—fostering a culture of agility, ownership, and performance.

You're the right fit if:

• You’ve acquired 10+ years of experience in consumer marketing, innovation management, or category leadership (FMCG, Consumer Health, Beauty, or Grooming).
• Your skills include:
• • Strategic Category Leadership: Proven success leading go-to-market and commercialization strategies within Beauty, Personal Care, or Consumer Health categories.
  • Emerging Markets Experience: Track record of leading complex, diverse markets across Europe, North America, China, APAC, and LATAM.
  • Portfolio Management Expertise: Strong command of portfolio shaping, pricing, and channel strategies to drive profitable growth.
  • Consumer & Market Insight: Deep understanding of consumer trends, routines, and purchase drivers across digital and physical ecosystems.
  • Omnichannel Mastery: Experience managing leading retailers and platforms including Amazon and offline trade.
  • Analytical & Results-Driven: Sharp commercial acumen with the ability to translate insights and KPIs into strategic action.
• You have a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in marketing, Business, or a related field.