Philips - Specialist - Market Intelligence & Competitor Insights

Market Intelligence & Competitor Insights Specialist position with Philips

Royal Philips (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHIA) is a leading health technology company focused on improving people's health and enabling better outcomes across the health continuum from healthy living and prevention, to diagnosis, treatment and home care. Philips leverages advanced technology, deep clinical, and consumer insights to deliver integrated solutions.

Headquartered in the Netherlands, the company is a leader in diagnostic imaging, image-guided therapy, patient monitoring and health informatics, as well as in consumer health and home care. Philips' health technology portfolio generated 2017 sales of EUR 17.8 billion and employs approximately 74,000 employees with sales and services in more than 100 countries.

JD : Market Intelligence & Competitor Insights Specialist.

Responsibilities :

- Sell out analyses and market & share development insights to drive for in market success and share increase

- Prior experience into hands on standardization and automation of insightful market reporting from secondary research sources for business reporting to business clusters, BU's and markets, leveraging sell out data from suppliers (e.g. GFK, Nielsen, IRI) as well as leveraging retailer sell out data where applicable

- Tracks the launch and development of new propositions and phase out of old propositions

- Enables win-loss analysis

- Experience of secondary research (including purchase of sell out panel data) subscriptions and purchases working closely with the Knowledge Management team

- Monitors competitor moves and developments in close co-operation with Strategy and MA&F teams and ensures competitor insights profiles, and strategies are pro-actively communicated to relevant stakeholders

- Responsible for preparation and facilitation of competitor war games with Strategy and MA&F teams

- Delivers input for the Disruptive Competition Risk review and be key contributor in the internal Philips processes to drive follow through

- Develop and implement marketing data management practices

- Ability to use data for Exploratory, descriptive, Inferential, Prescriptive, and Advanced Analytics - Mandatory

- Ability to share dashboards, reports, and Analytical insights from data - Mandatory

Technical Knowledge and Skills required :

- Track record in delivering strong and impactful; competitor and market tracking insights

- Thorough understanding of financial metrics used to benchmark competitors

- High affinity with applying new IT platforms / dash boarding software tools for reporting and Experience in a consumer focused, complex, matrixed, multinational environment, e.g. consumer goods, online services, e-commerce, or mobile applications

- Competitor insight generation

- Strong background into Database design, modeling and architecture - preferred

Soft Skills Required :

- Good communication and presentation skills

- Highly driven, energetic, flexible, resourceful & ability to multitask

- Clarity of thoughts and vision

- Ability to ideate and bring solutions to the table

- Adherence to timelines, without sacrificing quality of output

- Hands on and detail oriented, with a strong ability to co-ordinate across different Geographies and with different stakeholders at Exec and Director levels

Work Experience :

- Minimum 8-11 years of increasingly responsible experience in high impactful marketing analytics individual contributor roles

Academics :

- MBA /BTech-BE from IIT/NITs or Tier 1 engineering schools only, MStat/MS (Math)/MA Econ from Tier 1 schools, MS Analytics from Tier 1 schools; special preference to MBA from Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad or MBA schools that excel in Marketing

- MSc degree in a quantitative discipline, e.g., Math, Statistics, Physics, Operations Research, Economics, Econometrics