Consumer Lifestyle - Architect

Job: Research and Development
Primary Location: Shanghai China 
Organization: Research and Technology 50068188
Schedule: Full-Time
Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time
Job Number: 018474

Job Description:
Position: Architect in Philips Consumer Lifestyle Business Group (DA/PC/H&W)

Department Description:
Philips Consumer Lifestyle provides a wide spectrum of solutions to meet the needs of consumers in health and 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.

Your Responsibilities:

• Defines and deploys mid and long term architecture roadmaps including the specification of standard platforms and cost price roadmaps
• Responsible for the definition of product architecture before PRS milestone
• Responsible for maintaining product and module interfaces over the lifetime of an architecture/ platform
• Responsible for re-use of standard components
• Maintains contacts with colleagues within and outside Philips, other R&D centers and universities to keep track of new developments
• Advises in make/buy decisions and supplier selection

These jobs offer growth potential and opportunities for further career development within our organization.

Your Profile:

• Technical education in relevant discipline
• Some knowledge of other disciplines with which co-operation takes place
• Knowledge of design methods and processes
• Good knowledge of relevant technology and product features
• Excellent communication skills
• Coaching skills and experience
• Analytical, creative and abstract thinker
• Accurate and quality minded
• Cost conscious, result oriented, business minded

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

For Philips China 2013 campus recruitment, please visit http://ats.dajie.com/2013/philips/index.html