Recent Job at Philips

Philips is a multinational company with activities in healthcare, lighting and consumer life style.
Philips is a public company listed at the New York and Amsterdam stockexchange. Philips is active in more than 100 countries around the globe. It‘s headquarters are in the Netherlands.

Job Title: Country Manager - Lighting

Job Field
Administration, Secretarial, Engineering, Technical

Job Detail
He, she is driving customer satisfaction by proper understanding of market evolution and providing the wining sales propositions, based on local needs, followed by optimized product portfolio. The jobholder further more develops and manages effective relations with various channel partners,end-users and internal or external stakeholders.

Key areas of Responsibilities
Develops, regularly updates and deploys the winning commercial strategy for the market under his/her responsibility, synchronizing all key organizational deliverables
Responsible for creating and realizing the yearly, quarterly sales plan, including forecast and AOP, in line with agreed market plans, as well as dedicated strategic initiatives.
Acts as the “voice of the market” towards business groups spotting market trends and evolutions, engaged in the constant process of business development.
Responsible for the Talent and Capability Development in line with the agreed strategy.
Monitors the overall organizational performance sales, profitability and operational excellence
against budgeted KPIs and takes corrective actions.
Develops and maintains effective networks to leverage Philips'position, especially towards Key Opinion Leaders e.g. President, Governors.
Ensures appropriate level of cooperation across all functions,businesses and geographies of the organization in order to maximize customer satisfaction and operational performance.
Provides strong people leadership.
Ensures full adherence and integrity of business operation according internal / external requirements and ethical standards e.g. PBS.
Is co-accountable with the Regional Leader for the delivery of thecollaborative P&L, whereby business teams and market teams focus each ontheir respective part of the P&L.

Knowledge & Critical Experiences
The Country Manager will have 5-8 years of relevant and successful experience in the following:
In managing the commercial function in a large, complex organization. This experience will include both customer and business-to-business models,preferably in a technology environment.
Proven track record as senior leader in a large global matrix organization with a variety of internal and external stakeholders.
In change management, as it relates to the culture and mind set of a complex organization.

Competencies
Competencies in managing a commercial function.
Competencies in change management.
Skills in bringing people together and aligning them around common goals; leverages the power of Philips independent from organizational structures and reports.
Skills in collaborating with and influencing the stakeholder.
Shows a deep understanding of the global business environment and end-user insight
Skills in creating innovative strategies.
Results oriented: take personal accountability to deliver results.
Customer centric: driven by a strong external focus.
Skills in leveraging capabilities: works across internal and external boundaries to maximize value for Philips through simple solutions.
Skills in championing people’s growth: commits personally to the performance and development of people, while considering long term needs of Philips.

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