Job Title

Personal Health - Shopper Activation Manager Benelux

Job Description

Philips Personal Health offers – fully aligned with the social and emotional needs of our consumers at home – intensive experience and engagement opportunities. In Marketing, we work every day to improve the lives of our consumers, focusing on the business areas Oral Health Care, Mother & Child Care, Beauty, and Male Grooming. We develop and implement marketing plans tailored to the local requirements in the Netherlands and Belgium.

As a Shopper Activation Manager for our Philips products, you will play a key role in creating a consistent and engaging brand presence along the entire customer journey – at the POS, online and offline. You will independently develop customized activation plans for various customers and channels within one or a combination of our categories (Oral Health Care, Mother & Child Care, Beauty, or Male Grooming) and manage all online and offline shopper activities that are highly relevant to our shopper target group.

1. Your Responsibilities:

• Develop the Local Shopper Activation Plan (LSAP) for relevant customers and sales channels – including assortment, placement, promotion, and communication, in close alignment with Sales and Marketing.
• Responsible for the design, adaptation, and implementation of on- and offline POS campaigns including budget management: close collaboration with creative agencies, display manufacturers, and print partners, as well as managing the roll-out via our field/merchandising team.
• Optimize shelf presentation in physical and digital channels (including portfolio, price points, and promotions) in collaboration with Category Management.
• Work closely with Key Account Managers to achieve sell-out targets and implement individual POS activities at customer level, including joint meetings and development of compelling trade stories.
• Act as an interface to the Western Europe organization, Shopper Marketing of the Business Group, and the local Consumer Marketing Management Team to manage cross-functional projects.
• Analyze and interpret relevant shopper and market data (e.g., sell-out, GfK, distribution, shelf share, flyer share) to derive data-driven actions.

2. The Job Is Right for You If:

• You bring 5YR+ of experience in Trade Marketing, Brand Management. A strong preference is expertise in the FMCG
• University degree (e.g. marketing, business administration, or similar);
• You have strong analytical skills and are confident using Excel and common analytics tools (e.g., Advanced Analytics, QlikSense…).
• You have a strategic, data-driven mindset, are outgoing and communicative, and can confidently interact with internal and external stakeholders.
• You are a team player who wants to improve things together.
• You have a proactive, hands-on attitude with high attention to detail.
• You are fluent in Dutch and English and have strong communication and negotiation skills.
• You enjoy creative thinking and have a feel for trends and target groups.

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