Market Analysis & Forecasting Director - Health Technology Solutions

Philips reshaped from a diversified conglomerate to a focused leader in health technology. The company has set the bold target of improving 3 billion lives per year by 2025. The Market Analysis & Forecasting (MA&F) team at Philips plays a key role in this. The team is in need of an experienced director Health Technology Solutions with a strong analytical and healthcare background.

INNOVATION WITH PURPOSE

In 2017 alone, Philips’ solutions and technologies touched 2.2 billion people – and still has ambitious growth plans. At the core of the Strategy, Mergers & Acquisitions and Partnerships (SMAP) department, one of the most dynamic teams of the company, the Market Analysis & Forecasting (MA&F) team is expanding with a Director Health Technology Systems, a Director Health Technology Solutions and a Director New Business Creation. They will help predict and model the foundation for Philips’ growth through health technology solutions.

These analytic roles will work closely with the Vice President Head of Market Analysis & Forecasting. Under the VP’s new way of approaching analytics, the ideal candidate will source and create their own data from scratch, triangulating the output with a wide range of internal and external sources.

“We are not tracking the market. We are forecasting and influencing it.” – Hugo Barbosa Vazquez, VP Head of Market Analysis & Forecasting

VACANCY: MARKET ANALYSIS & FORECASTING DIRECTOR – HEALTH TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS

The Director in the MA&F team will use analytical and forecasting skills to identify and evaluate global value creation opportunities and enable the business to respond appropriately. This is about creating all-in health tech solutions that are way more valuable than the sum of their parts.

This role is part of the Strategy, Merger & Acquisitions and Partnerships (SMAP) at Philips. The MA&F team is an analytical powerhouse that provides fact-based market models and insightful analyses to stakeholders across Philips’ business sectors and geographies. The purpose is to build market size and create forecasting models of solutions that can be connected over time to build patient centric and disease specific pathway solutions.

This role is key in supporting the Royal Philips Executive Committee, with a direct line of access to the Philips geographic market leaders and HealthTech business segment management teams.

CANDIDATE’S PROFILE

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in an analytical role with a proven background in healthcare market analysis
• University degree, preferably in Engineering/Business/Finance.
• An MBA/PhD is a plus

PERSONALITY

• Comfortable networking within and outside of Philips
• Comfortable with working internationally

Philips works with Top of Minds to fill this vacancy.
Contact Martine Francken at martine@topofminds.com for more information.