System Architect - R&H Sub-Segment

Philips is the leading provider of lighting solutions and applications both for professional and consumer markets, transforming how lighting is used to enhance the human experience in the places where people live and work. Our ambition is to enhance life with light and thereby improve the quality of people’s lives.

Currently we are looking for a suitable individual to join us on the position of System Architect in R&H Sub-Segment.

You will be responsible for translating customer requirements into technical solutions. Understanding the customer’s objectives and working as the bridge between sales and Systems & Services Center to solidify ideas to reality and orders.

Your challenge:

• You are responsible for working together with Account Managers to translate customer requirements into technical solutions and system functionality
• You understand the customers objectives and work as the bridge between sales and the Systems & Services Center to solidify ideas to reality and orders
• You ensure that what we communicate to technical functionality into end user benefits

Key areas of responsibilities:

• Crafts lighting solutions, alongside sales, for customers by understanding the customers objectives and mapping their business requirements in an offering that delivers a cohesive value-added lighting solution
• Need to package solutions that include products, systems and services that are technically viable and wrapped with financial and deal structure offerings that are a win for customers and a win for Philips
• Drives for high levels of customer satisfaction
• Creates tailored solutions that deliver an improved lighting system that promotes productivity, safety, sustainability and enhanced outcomes

Critical features:

• Bachelor degree in business management/economy/ technology
• 5+ years of customer facing experience preferably in the Lighting industry or other complex technology business with proven ability to translate customer requirements into sellable/executable solutions
• 3+ years of experience in technology capital financed equipment sales
• Lighting designation or other professional certification
• Intellectual Horsepower
• Creativity
• Business Acumen
• Drive for Results
• Strategic Agility
• Innovation Management.