Job Description

Job Title Solution Catalog Advisor



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. 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.

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better

You will be supporting business transformation initiatives as well as our businesses/solution owners to create, maintain, improve, and advise on the standards for product and catalog data across Philips business processes.

The Commercial Configuration and Product Lifecycle Management is part of the complex product data domain. Philips is going through a tremendous change and is growing towards new business models; more from a box & sell business towards selling integrated propositions and solutions.

The New Solution and Catalog advisory role is helping transform the catalog and product setup across Philips in meeting the demands of the new business models i.e. software, integrated solutions, integrated services, pay per use, pay per subscription etc. Thinking out of the box, working very closely with the businesses, transformation programs, to come with designs and setting up the solutions. While doing this, creating standards that will land with catalog and product data operations center of excellence team for day-to-day support in all the relevant systems.

You are responsible for

Advising, consulting, and supporting businesses and markets in creating products, services, systems, software, and solutions (Configurable Sales Products) for product and catalog data, meaning:

Creating and maintaining the standards on how businesses and solution owners are capturing their needs via standardized templates and how to implement into the IT landscape for global and local market needs,

Advising business product managers, marketing managers and specialists on standards,

Advising businesses and markets on creation of integrated propositions with products, software, services,

Advising the catalog center of excellence for build of market and business needs into factory systems and sales tools,

Advising and consulting on best practices for build up of product configuration in catalog,

Optimizing catalog/e2e solutions based on 360 analytics,

Supporting projects and programs as we go through business transformation and implementing the future ways of working,

Driving designing, creating, maintaining and governing product and Commercial catalog,

Supporting PQ&M manager, project managers in the engineering change control board (ECCB), and catalog center of excellence, for example advising on the best way to creating and designing C-BOM,

Participating in New Product Introduction (NPI) projects. Work in close cooperation with Supply Chain, Marketing, Development and engineering stakeholders in these projects. This includes design activities,

The Solution and Catalog Advisor is logically E2E responsible for commercial catalog changes made, with GBS team in India handling data entry.

You are a part of

We have a dynamic and exciting career opportunity where you can contribute to Philips IT and GBS ambition to lead Philips into the future. You will be part of the Global Business Services Organization and report directly to the Catalog and Product Operations Manager. Given the nature of the job you will be working closely with many stakeholders in the Philips Health Systems Business Units and Markets that take part in the Product Lifecycle Data Management processes and new business introduction processes. You will be part of a team of enthusiastic colleagues.

To succeed in this role, you'll need a customer-first attitude and the following

Typically requires a bachelor degree in the areas of engineering or computer science and/or strong affinity with business-, mechanical or electronics engineering,

5+ years' experience with product master data and/or experience and functional knowledge of systems within the business that would be: generating quote, generating order, transfer from quote to order, account management, asset management, contract management, order management, and pricing,

3+ years' experience in international, large size / complex business environment, capable of supporting multiple businesses at the same time,

Philips' business knowledge and experience is a plus,

Knowledge and experience in the area of Product Configuration Management is strongly preferred,

Knowledge and understanding of other disciplines - Marketing, Development and Supply Chain - since you will be collaborating with them frequently, is a pre,

Preferred at least 3 years of experience working in regulated environments (i.e. FDA regulations) such as Medical Devices,

Understanding of the E2E business processes around configuration management, and configure, price and quote (CPQ) across businesses and markets,

Experience in Lean and Daily Management Methodologies,

Experience in Project Management, using skills to organize, evaluate, and communicate to a broader audience,

Strong communication and influencing skills, the ability to actively manage the relationships with stakeholders, improvement attitude, reviewing and auditing techniques,

Analytical with strong conceptualization skills but also willing to do hands-on operational tasks.

In return, we offer you

A path towards a rewarding career. Succeeding in this role in a complex environment will open many doors for your long-term career, in other areas in Philips or otherwise. We also believe that we are at our best as a company when you are at yours as a person. We offer competitive health benefits, a flexible work schedule and access to local well-being focused activities. Furthermore, Philips University is available to all employees for learning and development opportunities.

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.

Our hybrid working model is defined in 3 ways:
We believe in the importance of impactful collaboration: There's a certain energy when everyone's in the same room that can heighten idea generation and creative friction needed for problem-solving.
We embrace flexibility: Choosing where, when and how to work can vary according to task and team schedules. Flexibility isn't office or online, it means choosing the space that works best for you, your teams and our customers on a case-by-case basis.
We want to be at our best: The way we work and our workspaces are designed to support our well-being, offer career advancement opportunities, and enable us to be at our best.

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 innovative, customer-first health technology solutions. Help us improve the health and well-being of billions of people, every year. Ultimately creating a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.