Sr. Business Portfolio Manager Amsterdam

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The Senior Business Portfolio Manager is responsible for the commercial & operational efficiency of the Philips Avent business portfolio across global markets. He/she manages the business unit performance management, leads the business commercialization & value maximization strategy and defines the commercial guidelines for the global regions.

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:

• Leading the Global Category Growth Strategy by defining global portfolio channelization for our consolidated portfolio, via portfolio architecture methodology & establish business category commercial guidelines together with the Sales CoE to ensure successful launches and category growth across regions

• Ensuring the delivery of maximum value of the portfolio, driving strategic choices and securing the right levels of investments. Monitoring competitive commercial & promotional landscape and driving new business development

• Managing short-term business unit level performance, commercial KPI review & corrective action plans. Ensuring enabler delivery from business to regions and collaborations with S&OP team

• Supports Business Region Combination management through regular communication with markets, facilitation of problem solving, contributing to Business Region Combination enablers delivery, identifying new market opportunities originating out of roadmap evolution

• Acting as a custodian of the global commercial policy & support the Business / X-Category teams with operational pricing activities to ensure business continuity

• Supporting the Annual Global (List) Price adjustment by driving Strategic initiatives taking into account, but not limited to, profitability outlook, competitive pricing, price elasticity analysis, P-effectiveness analysis, inflation and currency exchange rate development

• Supporting price setting across the X Categories together with Sales Center of Excellence, in alignment with market requirements and commercial policy framework

• Facilitating line-chart process and the price realization target setting process between Business and Regions

• Coordinating and aligning the promotional strategy in line with peak events promotional calendar for key customer architype. Supporting strategic customer exclusives/promotions from a global perspective

• Managing Pricing Exceptions on RRP and 3net level for Promotions, Aging & Excess stock, Phase-out, and COOP, by strongly collaborating with Business Category Leader/Regional Business Unit Leader/Sales Center of Excellence and ensure feedback loop on price setting quality, in order to drive number of pricing exception requests down

• Analyze pricing and profitability KPIs and act as a consultant towards business stakeholders to drive continuous pricing and profitability performance improvements

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's Degree in business, marketing, or applicable discipline; MBA preferred.

• 5+ years of marketing and/or sales experience in a commercial organization

• Consumer Packaged Goods experience required

• Exhibits passion for and focus on consumer-first and customer-centric solutions with a strong knowledge of go to market strategies.

• 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 latest Digital Trends related to business models and activation channels.

• 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.

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