Job Title

Global Head of Commercial Growth & Portfolio Excellence, Grooming & Beauty

Job Description

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 80,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common: An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

The Commercial Growth & Portfolio Excellence Leader, Grooming & Beauty is the commercial growth integrator for the G&B business. The role connects Business, Regions, Markets, Commercial Excellence, Marketing CoE, RGM, Finance, ISC and Customer teams to ensure that portfolio choices, pricing, promotions, GTM plans, media investments and AI-enabled processes operate as one integrated growth system.

This role defines the HOW of commercial growth for G&B: the frameworks, guardrails, governance, tools, insights, performance rhythm and AI-enabled processes that enable Regions and Markets to execute with greater focus, speed and profitability.

The mission is to m

ake G&B growth more focused, more profitable, more scalable and more customer-centric through three strategic engines:

Portfolio Excellence — the right portfolio, based on the right consumer and market insights, in the right markets, through the right channels and customers. RGM & GTM Excellence — profitable growth through disciplined pricing, promotions, mix, trade terms, media ROI, channel strategy and customer choices. AI-enabled Transformation — redesigning key commercial processes end-to-end, using G&B as proof of concept and scaling winning models across PH.

It is a commercial growth architecture role that turns strategy into execution discipline.

The role leads three strategic growth engines:

• Portfolio Excellence – defining the right portfolio by market, channel and customer, grounded in strong consumer and market insights.
• RGM & GTM Excellence – driving profitable growth through pricing, promotions, mix, assortment, trade terms and channel strategy.
• AI-enabled Transformation – redesigning commercial processes using AI to improve speed, decision quality and scalability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end G&B portfolio agenda, including portfolio governance, lifecycle management, PIPO, NPI and Global Line Chart processes.
• Translate consumer, shopper, customer and market insights into winning portfolio architecture and GTM choices.
• Improve portfolio productivity by reducing complexity, strengthening hero propositions and improving lifecycle profitability.
• Define and deploy RGM principles across pricing, promotions, mix, GTN and channel strategy to improve margin and commercial performance.
• Partner with Finance and Commercial Analytics to build integrated performance dashboards and commercial decision tools.
• Lead AI-enabled transformation across portfolio, pricing, promotions, line charts, assortment and performance management processes.
• Build cross-functional governance and decision-making routines across Business, Regions and Markets.

Success Measures

Success is measured by improved portfolio productivity, stronger hero SKU performance, better price realization and margin, improved promo ROI, stronger execution and availability, faster decision-making and measurable AI-driven business impact.

Experience needed for the role:

• 15+ years of experience in commercial leadership, portfolio management, RGM, marketing, sales strategy or business transformation.
• Strong experience in FMCG, personal care, beauty, grooming or consumer health.
• Deep understanding of portfolio strategy, pricing, promotions, GTM and lifecycle management.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, with experience in complex global matrix organizations.
• Experience with the Grooming and Beauty portfolio
• Experience with analytics, dashboards, AI-enabled tools or digital transformation preferred.

Leadership Capabilities

Systems thinker with strong business ownership and execution focus. Able to simplify complexity, influence senior stakeholders and lead cross-functional transformation in fast-changing environments.

How we work at Philips

Our newly adopted hybrid work concept fuses flexibility with collaboration to deliver great outcomes for our people and our customers. We are embracing an approach wherein we spend more time together than apart – which for full-time employees translates to an average of at least 3 days working from the office and up to 2 days from home – for our hybrid roles.​

Hybrid work flexibility means people can meet the changing demands of work and home in the most balanced, productive, and healthy way. 

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video.

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process, or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions.

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