Philips Today

Philips is a market-driven company with an organizational structure that reflects the needs of our customers. We operate in three main sectors: Healthcare, Lighting and Consumer Lifestyle. A fourth sector, Innovation & Emerging Businesses, contains Philips Research, Philips Design, and all of our supporting departments. Whatever the sector, the aim is always the same: to develop products that touch and improve people’s lives.

We achieve it by constantly bearing in mind our philosophy of Sense and Simplicity. In other words, we make even the most advanced technology accessible to the people who are going to use it. That means we need talented individuals who share our vision, who thrive on challenges and have the drive and determination to bring about real change.

Philips is proud to be a market leader in medical diagnostic imaging and patient monitoring systems, energy-efficient lighting solutions, personal care and home appliances, as well as consumer electronics. Why not join us and contribute to the success of the team?

Facts & figures

People around the world buy over one million Philips consumer products every day. We employ 116,000 people, hold more than 48,000 patents and have sales of over EUR 23 billion. Headquartered in the Netherlands, we are present in 150 countries and one of the largest multinationals in China.

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Ambitions

We are where we are because we’re extremely good at what we do, but we actively encourage everyone who works for Philips to reach even further. Our aim is to be a global leader in health and well-being, becoming the preferred brand in the majority of our chosen markets by 2015.

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Business Sectors

Our activities focus on Healthcare, Consumer Lifestyle and Lighting. These are in turn backed up by Design, Research and other supporting departments. Each sector pursues meaningful innovations that are relevant to and desired by its target market, and in line with our overall promise of ‘Sense and Simplicity’.

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Diversity & Inclusion

As a global organization, we recognize and appreciate the wide variety of people who work for us. Each individual employee is unique, with his or her own background, culture, characteristics, skills and ambitions. Our customers are equally unique, and it is thanks to the diversity of our own staff that we can understand them better.

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