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Philips Manager Group Strategy in Shanghai, China

Are you a highly talented strategist, currently working for a top-tier strategy consulting firm, who can support the Philips Executive Committee to make decisions?

In this role you have the opportunity to

Influence strategy and growth in a leading Health Technology company. As a Manager in the Strategy team, you will directly support and influence key decisions made by the senior leaders. The Strategy team works with Philips Executive Committee, Philips businesses, market organizations and functional teams, supplying them with deep business insights, actionable strategic direction and thought leadership.

You will be part of

Strategy team structured around 3 global hubs located in Amsterdam, Boston and Shanghai. The team consists of top-level strategists with wide-ranging backgrounds, nationalities, and competencies.

You will be responsible for

  • Owning and driving project work streams or projects, guided by the Strategy management team

  • Independently conducting high quality, meaningful, evidence-based business analyses

  • Contributing to the formulation and communication of actionable strategy recommendations

  • Engaging in career enriching activities across the department/Philips, e.g. designing new learning and development curriculum, working with the Philips foundation, participating in the Philips women’s leadership community.

Projects range from global projects at group level to high-impact strategic questions within specific markets. A typical project could be as broad as the evaluation of Philips’ global footprint in terms of value creation opportunities, a deep-dive into the Chinese market for a specific business unit, and market entry strategy for medical devices in the US. We also tackle specific executive level topics such as Philips’ long-term enterprise strategy, fit-for-growth business models, and supply chain optimization.

To succeed in this role, you will need

  • Minimum 2 years experience in a top tier Strategy Consulting firm (BCG, Bain, McKinsey, Roland Berger, etc.)

  • Alternatively, 3 to 6 years experience in new business development or strategy role with a top-tier international company or 3 to 6 years experience in working at a private equity or venture capital firm

  • Master’s degree in Business, Science or Engineering with excellent academic track record; MBA from a credible business school is a plus

  • International business experience; experience in emerging markets or healthcare is a plus

  • Excellent analytics and quantitative skills

  • Fluency in English, both written and verbal

  • Willingness to travel (up to 25%)

In return, we offer you

Your contribution will be a key asset to deliver breakthrough technologies in meaningful and credible ways to professional and impactful and engaging ways to consumer to continuously build our advantage vs competition.

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 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.

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