Circular Marketing & Communications Director
At a glance
Director-level Communications role at Philips (Internal Job Postings List For Philips Contingent Workers). Best · full-time · €93,049–€155,081 base.
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What you'll do
- Set a consistent customer-facing circular offer across Precision Diagnosis and IGT Systems
- Turn circular strategy and market findings into messages about sustainability, recovered value and distinct customer benefits
- Coordinate circular marketing across business units, guiding product managers through launch preparation and market readiness
- Use customer, market-share and competitor insights to shape retention messaging and offers for pre-owned equipment
- Connect trade-in, take-back, refurbishment and reuse communications, while adding circular value to product plans
What you bring
- A university degree plus five to eight years in healthcare marketing, communications, lifecycle management or circularity
- You have experience bringing new products to market
- You understand customer retention and trade-in practices, and know the PD and IGT-S portfolios and their lifecycles
Who this fits
This director position suits someone who can align teams through influence, work with senior executives and build relationships across a global matrix. The role is based in Best, Netherlands, with office-based staff working in person at least three days weekly.
From the employer
Job Title
Circular Marketing & Communications DirectorJob Description
In this role, you will shape Circular Solutions across Precision Diagnosis and IGT Systems by building a harmonized, customer centric marketing and communications engine integrated with the BU’s system portfolios. You will sharpen and elevate circular value propositions, messaging, and portfolio storytelling so customers clearly understand circular value propositions and how Philips delivers value across the full lifecycle. This role lets you accelerate value regeneration, champion sustainability, and influence how global teams think and act on circularity, ultimately strengthening customer trust and driving business impact.
Your role:
- Drive unified customer circular proposition for Circular Solutions across PD and IGT-S, ensuring clarity, consistency
- Translate circular strategy and market insights into messaging frameworks and storytelling that highlight value regeneration, sustainability, and differentiated benefits.
- Lead harmonized marketing approaches across businesses, guiding business circular Product Managers (dotted line) to ensure seamless market readiness, handshake, and launch execution.
- Integrate customer needs, market share and competitive insights into marketing narratives that reinforce customer loyalty and retention.
- Develop and refine specific propositions for the pre-owned and used equipment, grounded in audience needs and market developments
- Strengthen customer experience by aligning messaging across touchpoints—trade in, take back, refurbishment, and reuse—ensuring a coherent end to end journey.
- Partner closely with PD & IGT S product marketing teams to embed circular differentiation into portfolio positioning and mid/long term product plans.
- Bring thought leadership on circular economy trends into customer-facing content, empowering teams to communicate confidently and credibly about sustainability impact.
To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience:
- University degree (Master or Bachelor degree) with 5-8 years of relevant experience in Marketing and communications, lifecycle management and/or circularity in the Healthcare Industry.
- Strategic thinking and ability to be an accelerator to unlock the commercial value of circularity.
- Be familiar with the PD & IGT-S product portfolio and its lifecycle.
- Strong understanding of Customer Retention and Trade-in practices.
- Experience in new product launches is a must.
- Ability to lead through influence and to work effectively with senior executives.
- Ability to influence and drive change within the organization and collaborate effectively with global teams & peers located around the world.
- Strong experience to manage, build and nurture effective relationships across a matrixed organization.
- Bring people together and aligning them around common goals; leverage the power of Philips, independent from organizational structures and reports.
Compensation & benefits
Doing meaningful work should come with fair, transparent rewards. The base salary range for this role is EUR 93,049.00 - EUR 155,081.00. We determine pay within the range using objective factors, like the skills the role requires, your relevant experience and the responsibility you'll have in this role, alongside internal equity and local market considerations.
This role is eligible for 6% short term incentive with your rewards linked to both individual performance and company results. We’ll share the full approach with you during the interview process, so you can make a clear, informed decision. Benefits include hybrid working, paid time-off, health and wellbeing benefits, learning and development opportunities.
How we work together
We believe that we are better together than apart. For our office-based teams, this means working in-person at least 3 days per week.
About Philips
Are you ready to do the work of your life to help the lives of others? Learn more about our business, discover our rich and exciting history and learn more about our purpose.
If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care.
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