Innovation Leadership Gateway

You’ll drive innovation to business success

Our strategy at Philips is to grow through innovation, combining the inventive talents of our technologists with the vision of our marketing groups to create products that transform a task into an opportunity, a burden into a pleasure. We are committed to delivering products and solutions that are easy to experience, designed around you and advanced. It’s summed up in our brand-promise of ‘Sense and Simplicity’.

Take the lead

If you are an ambitious professional, qualified to Master’s Degree level in Electronics, Computer Science, Information Technology, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering or Technical Industrial Design combined with a proven track record in innovation you could be the person we need to drive our 'growth through innovation' strategy forward.

Drive the future

Philips’ Innovation Leadership Gateway is the fastest way of getting you where you want to be – driving the future. As a successful gateway candidate you will get one-on-one coaching from our top R&D executives, putting you in a leading position to drive Philips’ business from innovation to commercial success.

The development program

Once you have been accepted, you will be placed in a highly responsible Integral Project Management position in one of our three business sectors or Corporate Technologies organization. You will manage multi-disciplinary projects and collaborate with Marketing, Manufacturing, Supply Chain and Sales departments to turn customer insights into innovative products and real commercial success.

After two to three years, you will move up the ladder to even more rewarding international positions like business R&D management, business Chief Technology Officer, research group leader, new business creation, program management, product strategy and product management.

Fast-track to the top

At the same time you will benefit from a two-year program of individual coaching from CTOs and other top Executives within Philips, as well as extensive skills and career development training in our ‘Top Potentials’ program. Through presentations and informal get-togethers, you will have access to Philips’ Board of Management, right up to CEO level. By participating in our ‘One Philips’ projects, you will be given a real opportunity to influence the future of our company and the way we do things.

Leadership quality

We are looking for people who have much more to offer than their technological skills alone. We want real leaders who will succeed in motivating teams and managing innovation in an international, multi-disciplinary business environment. We want people with the business acumen and entrepreneurial spirit to grasp business opportunities and the drive and determination to bring them to fruition. Your profile should reflect personal responsibility and accountability for delivering results and the ability to create a winning mindset by motivating and inspiring those around you. In Philips, you will serve as a role model that others will want to emulate.

Business understanding

In addition to your Masters Degree qualification, you will need 7-12 years of relevant working experience, of which at least  6-8 yrs in R&D/ innovation/ technology for electronic products/systems (hardware and/or software).

It is essential that your experience includes active involvement in the research and/or development of electronic products/systems, management of both people and projects as well as interaction with marketing (and/or customers). You are able to identify new opportunities to grow business through technology and innovation, and you embrace these opportunities with the enthusiasm needed to drive them forward to success. In Philips, these are the qualities we need so that we can continually deliver on our brand promise of Sense and Simplicity.
Ideally, your career has taken you to different parts of the world and made you multilingual (English being one language that you are fluent in). Ideally, you have worked in all the various stages of innovation throughout a technology lifecycle.

It’s important that you have demonstrated success in one or more of the following areas:

• strict deadline product development involving applied technology and collaboration with purchasing, manufacturing and marketing departments;
• successfully managed a project-team transforming a breakthrough new idea with regard to a product concept/technology into a successful delivery
• team building, including the attraction of new talent;
• innovation management;
• change management;
• new venture development;
• industry standards definition and negotiation.

If you have the above experience and qualifications, you could be the future leader we are looking for.

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