Philips Consumer Lifestyle provides a wide spectrum of solutions to meet the needs of consumers in health and
well-being.
well-being.
Business Group Domestic appliances (BG DA) plays primarily in Home Living, one of the four value spaces. At the moment BG DA consists of 5 categories: Floor care, Garment care, Beverage Appliances, Kitchen appliances and Water & Air. We also have Saeco in our portfolio.
Business Group Personal Care (BG PC) plays primarily in Shaving & Grooming as well as Beauty. These portfolio comprises full range of male shaving and grooming that includes female epilator. Beauty provides hair care from hair blower to curlers.
Business Group Health & Wellness (BG H&W) businesses covers Mother & Child Care (M&CC) and Oral Health Care (OHC). M&CC has covers the territory from pregnancy to playground with the famous Avent offerings. OHC with Sonicare electric toothbrush.
China - Shanghai
Responsibilities:
You will be responsible for the pre-development and realization of innovative products and/or new functions in projects:
- You develop new and optimize existing product concepts within cross-functional teams.
- You scout technologies and assess the feasibility of applications. You give input in the creation of roadmaps for future product platforms.
- You actively seek external knowledge and build and maintain technical relationships with external parties
- You'll lead and participate as key competence resource in cross functional teams.
This job offers growth potential and opportunities for further career development within our Organization
Requirements:
General
- You have a technical background in e.g. Physics, Mechanical Engineering or Bio-mechanical engineering at a high qualitative level (Master or PhD level). You have a proven track record and preferably experience in pre-development and realization of new consumer products and or functions in a R&D environment.
- You have experience in one or more relevant fields of competency for consumer products, such as heating & cooling, air treatment or in fluid mechanics.
Expected Areas of Competencies
- Experience in understanding and translating consumer needs in measurable functions
- Preferably experience in cooperation in a multi-site multi-partner development environment
- Ability to analyze the stakeholder environment and needs to achieve common objectives, considering contradicting interests and making the best decisions for the project as well as the business.
- Negotiation skills.
- Ability to balance risks and opportunities of innovative solutions.
- Preferably you are familiar with Design for Six Sigma, Lean development, FMEA, and other design tools
- An abstract, analytical and creative thinker.
- Open minded towards other disciplines and companies in the field of product development.
- An excellent communicator and motivator, skilled in managing interpersonal processes.
- Able to continuously challenge the status quo, with a strong desire to improve organizational effectiveness structurally.
- Act as a team player, leveraging other peoples competences
- Always looking for improvement opportunities and share your learning’s pro-actively. You don’t accept underperformance or poor results. You have a quality mindset.
Do you fit this profile? Then we might have the job for you! Our high-tech campus, new clean-rooms, advanced infrastructure and most of all our teams of world-class R&D professionals are available for you to make your and our dreams come true.
Your knowledge and know-how will be decisive in determining where you might fit into Philips China. In other words: it is your talent that will guide us. So make sure that besides the cover letter you give us at least:
- a short description of your Master's work or PhD thesis
- a list of your publications
- a specification of the areas of research you are most interested in
- details on how you can be contacted
Philips Career Center job number 015726, please apply directly to job at www.philips.com/career AND/OR submit your resume along with the cover letter to eva.wu@philips.com identifying the job portal you see our job advertisement.