Strategic Growth & Business Development

• Lead the strategic planning process, collaborating with Finance, Business Excellence, Marketing and Regional teams to define strategic goals, establish key performance indicators (KPIs) with measurable impact on revenue, market share and profitability, and facilitate reporting on execution progress.
• Define long-term vision and priorities, aligning with business leadership, market trends, and customer needs to create a roadmap for sustainable growth.
• Work hand in hand with Strategy Execution leader to drive execution through a structured operating cadence, ensuring alignment across functions, tracking progress, and making data-driven adjustments as needed.
• Define with IGT Business Development team the growth agenda, including inorganic opportunities (M&A, ventures, partnerships, and commercial excellence strategies).

Portfolio Management & Market Intelligence

• Contribute to portfolio management efforts, ensuring a balanced investment strategy across hardware, software, and services that maximizes business impact, and drives competitiveness.
• Maintain a real-time view of the competitive landscape, working with Market Intelligence and Forecasting teams to anticipate market shifts, technical advancements, and emerging customer needs.
• Provide data-driven insights and strategic recommendations to guide leadership decisions, balancing risks, trade-offs, and value chain shifts.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Execution

• Partner with product management, R&D, marketing, Quality, Supply Chain, Services and Regional teams to ensure effective problem solving of strategic problems with quality and speed.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business leadership, contributing to high-level decision-making and long-term planning.
• Foster alignment across business functions, ensuring strategic initiatives are successfully integrated into execution plans.

Stakeholder Engagement & Thought Leadership

• Build and maintain strong relationships with C-level executives, key industry influencers, and ecosystem partners.
• Develop and deliver impactful strategic communications internally and externally to align teams and influence industry discussions.
• Engage with major customers, industry leaders, and regulatory bodies to stay ahead of market trends and drive Philips’ strategic positioning in IGT Systems.
• Represent the company at industry events, conferences, and forums, positioning our IGT Systems business unit as an industry leader.