BRAVE COMMERCE | Episode Philips’ Laura Briggs on Unifying eCommerce, Driving Category Growth, and the Power of Empathy
In this episode of BRAVE COMMERCE, hosts Rachel Tipograph and Sarah Hofstetter speak with Laura Briggs, Head of eCommerce Excellence at Philips.
Laura shares how her team drives category growth across Philips’ consumer goods portfolio (Sonicare, Avent, Grooming & Beauty) by establishing a universal focus and analyzing the core drivers of consumer growth as a key framework. She emphasizes that eCommerce is a team sport, explaining how her team aligns cross-functional partners around core KPIs, prioritizing the Digital Shelf as the essential foundation.
She shares the challenge of achieving scale and consistency globally, focusing on designing solutions for different personas, from super users to executives. Finally, Laura offers her “blue sky” vision for a commercial operating model, which would involve eliminating the divide between sales and marketing to achieve unified growth.
Key Takeaways
- Use Category Growth as the single, non-negotiable objective to align diverse global teams and business units
- Prioritize maximizing the Digital Shelf (content, availability, and visibility) as the essential foundation for effective eCommerce investment
- Treat eCommerce as a “team sport” by fostering empathy to ensure critical adoption and consistency across all functions
- The ideal commercial model eliminates the divide between Sales and Marketing to create unified growth leadership
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Speaker 2: Welcome to Great Commerce.
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Speaker 3: I’m Rachel Tippegraph, the founder and CEO of Micmac.
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Speaker 2: And I’m Sarah Hofstetter, chairwoman of Profitero Plus.
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Speaker 2: Rachel, welcome back. I missed you so much.
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Speaker 2: And I think Laura Briggs at Philips is a very
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Speaker 2: Today, after much coercion, we are happy to have Laura Briggs,
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Speaker 2: head of e-commerce excellence at Philips. Welcome to the show, Laura.
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Speaker 2: So happy to have you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. I’m
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Speaker 2: Well, I’m sure our listeners are excited to hear from
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Speaker 2: you as well. So let’s get in it. Philips spans
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Speaker 2: global markets, product categories, and channels. You guys are everywhere
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Speaker 1: So let me zoom us in a little bit because
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Speaker 1: but still for sure, Sarah, a lot of what you
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Speaker 1: a universal focus on category growth. So that makes it
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Speaker 1: quite simple. We recognize that we need to work in
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Speaker 1: partnership with customers and category growth is obviously the thing
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Speaker 1: that we need to be collectively working towards to deliver
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Speaker 1: that win for everybody. There’s always, and I think there
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Speaker 1: always will be, a need to be choicefulness between top
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Speaker 1: work to try to give that focus to everyone in
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Speaker 1: the organization is to look up what we call source
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Speaker 1: of business around any particular product category or business unit area.
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Speaker 1: So really trying to think about what is the shopper?
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Speaker 3: If category growth is the main objective, There’s a slew
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Speaker 3: and then how are those shared cross-functionally across the organization?
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Speaker 1: team sport. It needs that cross-functional effort to deliver on it,
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Speaker 1: for sure. And therefore, that universal understanding of what we’re
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Speaker 1: trying to do and the KPIs around it are so,
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Speaker 1: so important. We also love to bamboozle ourselves with acronyms,
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Speaker 1: both internally and externally. If anybody would like to pick
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Speaker 1: between geo and AO anytime soon, I would be eternally grateful.
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Speaker 1: Please and thank you. Because I think there is just
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Speaker 1: that complexity around what are we looking at? Why are
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Speaker 1: So one of the ways that we focus on it
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Speaker 1: within our team, particularly for e-commerce at Philips, is to
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Speaker 1: work with it. And that’s quite challenging. Like for myself
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Speaker 2: To do that.
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Speaker 1: We have communities of practice that we run on various
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Speaker 1: Those are things where we would bring together people and
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Speaker 1: the other thing that I feel quite personally passionate about
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Speaker 1: like everyone shows up to things with a whole different
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Speaker 3: I love what you just said in terms of listening
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Speaker 3: and understanding. My executive coach is always like, Rachel, you
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Speaker 1: come today. It was super, super scary. It wasn’t something
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Speaker 1: that I thought I would ever do. But actually, it
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Speaker 1: was a moment that gave me the opportunity to go
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Speaker 1: on such a journey of self-discovery. And I think that’s
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Speaker 1: also been something that I consider myself quite brave to do,
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Speaker 1: because I think when you look inwards and you really
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Speaker 1: think about yourself, you have to look at the ugly
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Speaker 1: stuff as well as the nice stuff. And that’s definitely
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Speaker 1: not an easy task.
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Speaker 3: Laura, thank you for sharing being vulnerable. I think there’s
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Speaker 3: a lot of listeners who probably have a same shared story.
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Speaker 3: And that is brave. And we’re happy for you, right?
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Speaker 1: It seems like it’s bringing you joy. Yeah, we got
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Speaker 1: there eventually. Always a rough road. I think these things
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Speaker 1: are not easy. But yeah, the bravest moves tend to
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Speaker 1: work out all right in the end.
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Speaker 2: As a child of divorced parents, sometimes even the kids
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Speaker 2: know when it’s time for things to end. I can
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Speaker 2: say for sure. The decision by both my parents were
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Speaker 2: super brave because in certain cases, it’s just a lot
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Speaker 2: easier to sweep things under the rug. And you trip
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Speaker 2: on the rug one day and you say, oh, crap,
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Speaker 2: I need to do something. And that might be too late.
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Speaker 2: So good for you and bravo to you. And thank
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Speaker 2: you for both vulnerability as well as everything that you’ve
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Speaker 2: shared today. I think you foster a culture that allows
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Speaker 2: people to be vulnerable and allows people to bring their
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Speaker 2: best selves to work. So thank you, Laura.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me.
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Speaker 1: It’s been a delight.
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Speaker 3: If you like what you heard and you want to
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Speaker 3: think more and hear more about the global local dynamic
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Speaker 3: at large corporations, go check out a recent episode we
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Speaker 3: did with Mars Wrigley’s Neil Reynolds on global digital commerce.
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Speaker 3: And if you also like what you heard, please tell
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Speaker 3: a friend, write a review, share on LinkedIn. Thanks for listening.
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Speaker 1: Hi, I’m Jackie Cooper, Global Chief Brand Officer at Edelman
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Speaker 1: and the host of Touch of Truth, a new podcast
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