(Assistant) Product Manager

ROLE DESCRIPTION
The Product Manager is the pivotal marketing role in the Business Innovation Unit (BIU) and drives creation of solutions (integrated combination of products and services) from idea to market. The Product Manager is accountable for defining, launching and building profitable product solution platforms that transform healthcare. They work directly with R&D and other marketing functions to ensure the products/solutions are developed to the feature and price specifications that each target market segment demands. The Product Manager owns the product lifecycle from concept phase through development and launch and eventually, end of life. The Product Manager is required to have deep expertise in market segmentation, product strategy, competitive strategy, and product development.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
■ Develop and maintain a needs-based customer segmentation for their respective solution across global markets (supported by Market Intelligence)
■ Help define product platforms that support growth, product evolution, modular designs
■ Work across R&D, Services and Operations (helping lead “heavyweight teams” where applicable) to develop integrated offerings that meet the needs of priority customer segments, tailored by market
■ Set price corridors and guidance for products/solutions
■ Coordinate pricing across product lines to ensure profitable growth
■ Develop channel strategy for each offering by market (e.g., direct in North America, indirect in emerging markets and online globally)
■ Develop business cases for new products and services for consideration in the portfolio management process
■ Develop business requirements for new product and enhancements to existing products; work with R&D on functional specifications and feature/function prioritization
■ Work with Field Marketing to enable the market sales teams (e.g., conduct presentations ahead of new product launch)
■ Conduct customer executive presentations, coordinated as part of sales campaigns with priority customers
■ Manage external analyst relations (e.g., presentations) for their products and offerings
■ Drive overall execution of development and launch of products/solutions in all markets as part of a cross functional business team including BG/BIU Management, Sales, Field Marketing, Operations and Finance

MINDSETS AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
■ Expertise in customer segments and the national healthcare systems in which they work. Understands the dynamics of capital goods marketing and the dynamics of “installed base” market
■ Familiarity with the technologies that currently dominate the Product Manager’s markets, and with the emerging technologies that will serve them in the future
■ Fluent in hardware and software product development, including quality and reliability techniques
■ Superior business acumen
■ Boldness to create/shape markets whenever possible, exploiting Philips technologies, market positions and brand
■ Ability to synthesize market and customer feedback and existing and new products into solutions; comfortable with making tradeoffs, decisively
■ Expertise delivering complex projects to meet demanding feature, cost, quality and introduction date targets
■ Demonstrable communication skills and ability to lead an organization to develop market leading products/solutions
■ High-tech product launch experience (clinical experience a nice to have)
■ Proven communication skills and ability to influence colleagues

PERFORMANCE METRICS
■ Sales volume
■ Market share
■ Price realization
■ % Sales from new products
■ Accuracy of forecasting

CRITICAL LINKAGES
■ BIU Leadership
■ Director of Product Management
■ Clinical Specialist
■ R&D
■ Market Leadership / Sales
■ Services Marketing
■ Field Marketing / Market Intelligence
■ Operations / Service Operations

EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
■ Bachelor’s degree in relevant field, MBA preferred
■ 3 years in marketing, product development, or related field. Capital Goods industry experience preferrfed
■ Experience in high tech, healthcare/med-tech solutions businesses preferred
■ Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
■ Good verbal and written English

荷蘭皇家飛利浦電子公司是一家“健康舒適、優(yōu)質(zhì)生活”領(lǐng)域的多元化公司，致力于在醫(yī)療保健、優(yōu)質(zhì)生活和照明領(lǐng)域，用有意義的創(chuàng)新來改善人們的生活。總部位于荷蘭的飛利浦公司在全球擁有大約118,000名員工，銷售和服務(wù)網(wǎng)絡(luò)遍布世界100多個國家，2012年的銷售額達(dá)248億歐元，并在心臟監(jiān)護、緊急護理和家庭醫(yī)療保健、節(jié)能照明解決方案和新型照明應(yīng)用、以及男性剃須和儀容產(chǎn)品、家居和便攜式娛樂產(chǎn)品以及口腔護理產(chǎn)品等領(lǐng)域均居于世界領(lǐng)先地位。
醫(yī)療保健
作為醫(yī)療保健領(lǐng)域的全球領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，我們始終秉承“以人為本”的理念，致力于通過創(chuàng)新讓世界更加健康，以創(chuàng)新的醫(yī)療解決方案來提升和拓展全球的醫(yī)療護理，為患者打造理想的產(chǎn)品體驗。

我們?yōu)榕R床醫(yī)生和廣大醫(yī)務(wù)工作者提供一站式醫(yī)療信息系統(tǒng)解決方案，充分利用臨床信息，使診斷更有把握，工作更加高效。
我們正致力于提供最先進的產(chǎn)品和解決方案，幫助臨床醫(yī)生診斷、治療和管理目前最常見的一些疾病。
我們通過使用新的移動和遠(yuǎn)程技術(shù)，不斷在提升醫(yī)療保健系統(tǒng)效率方面創(chuàng)新，讓更多的人享受到優(yōu)質(zhì)醫(yī)療服務(wù)。

這些承諾都促使我們加大研發(fā)力度，努力在放射學(xué)、心臟病學(xué)、腫瘤學(xué)、決策支持、家庭醫(yī)療保健、以及呼吸道疾病等主要疾病的治療方面持續(xù)創(chuàng)新。
我們通過四大戰(zhàn)略業(yè)務(wù)部門來開展醫(yī)療保健業(yè)務(wù)，即影像系統(tǒng)、監(jiān)護治療和臨床信息、家庭醫(yī)療保健解決方案和客戶服務(wù)。

飛利浦醫(yī)療保健事業(yè)部在全球擁有約37,400名員工。
優(yōu)質(zhì)生活
在優(yōu)質(zhì)生活事業(yè)部，我們繼續(xù)履行飛利浦的發(fā)展愿景，旨在通過創(chuàng)新改善世界人口的健康狀況，并促進世界的可持續(xù)發(fā)展。我們的足跡遍及全球，在成熟和成長型市場均已建立了業(yè)務(wù)網(wǎng)絡(luò)。我們加大創(chuàng)新投資并實施業(yè)務(wù)本地化，這使得我們能夠提供源源不斷的、符合本土需求的、有意義的解決方案。我們的品牌全球領(lǐng)先，深受世界信賴。
飛利浦優(yōu)質(zhì)生活圍繞業(yè)務(wù)和市場，致力于通過品類開發(fā)和卓越的營運來創(chuàng)造價值。
我們通過“業(yè)務(wù)市場整合”（BMC）來制定計劃、配置資源和實施管理。在經(jīng)營過程中，我們實行明確的責(zé)任制，使決策更貼近客戶和市場的需求，從而激發(fā)了企業(yè)家精神，加快了業(yè)務(wù)發(fā)展的步伐。
我們的重點業(yè)務(wù)領(lǐng)域包括：健康護理、個人護理和廚房電器及家居護理。
飛利浦優(yōu)質(zhì)生活事業(yè)部在全球擁有近18,900名員工。
照明
飛利浦照明是全球照明行業(yè)的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者，我們在創(chuàng)新照明解決方案的開發(fā)、制造和應(yīng)用領(lǐng)域享有行業(yè)公認(rèn)的專業(yè)地位。在過去的121年中，我們在照明領(lǐng)域銳意創(chuàng)新，取得了多項重大的革命性成果，為公司今日的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)地位奠定了堅實基礎(chǔ)，并幫助我們成為數(shù)字化照明轉(zhuǎn)型時代的領(lǐng)袖。未來我們將加大在LED照明領(lǐng)域的投資，并利用我們在傳統(tǒng)照明領(lǐng)域豐富的產(chǎn)品組合、分銷網(wǎng)絡(luò)和品牌優(yōu)勢，進一步鞏固我們在數(shù)字照明市場的領(lǐng)先地位。
我們能夠在各類細(xì)分市場上滿足人們的照明需求。在室內(nèi)照明方面，我們?yōu)榧彝?、商場、辦公室、學(xué)校、酒店、工廠和醫(yī)院提供照明解決方案。在室外照明方面，我們?yōu)槌鞘芯坝^、道路（包括街道照明和汽車照明）、公共空間、居民區(qū)和運動場所提供照明解決方案。此外，我們還為園藝和水凈化等專業(yè)領(lǐng)域提供定制化的照明應(yīng)用方案。
飛利浦照明擁有光源電子，消費燈具，專業(yè)照明解決方案，汽車照明和Lumileds五大核心業(yè)務(wù)，覆蓋了整個照明產(chǎn)業(yè)鏈——從光源，燈具，電子和控制，到整體照明應(yīng)用與解決方案。
飛利浦照明事業(yè)部全球雇員人數(shù)約為50, 200人。