Director - Program Management Office

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Director - PMO 

Philips is a global leader in health technology, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide and striving to make the world healthier and more sustainable through innovation. Driven by the vision of a better tomorrow.

But it’s not just what we do, it’s who we are. We are 70,000, wonderfully unique individuals, with two things in common. An unwavering sense of purpose and a relentless determination to deliver on our customers’ needs. It’s what inspires us to create meaningful solutions – the kind that make a real difference – when it matters most.

The world and our customers’ needs are changing faster than ever before and while we are proud of what we do already, we know we can do more. That’s why we need you, to help us tackle increasingly complex challenges posed by ever evolving health and well-being needs.

In this role, you have the opportunity to make life better. Looking at the challenges the world is facing today Philips’ purpose has never been more relevant. So whatever your role, if you share our passion for helping others, you’ll be working towards creating a better and fairer future for all.

In this role, you have the opportunity to drive and execute the product realization program spanning across functions within Philips to deliver a complete product and portfolio management for Mobile Surgery business. This role gives direction and leads PMO with complex, integral programs which are essential to Philips' BU’s dealing with other BU’s and Knowledge Centers inside and outside Philips.

Your role:

• Leads PMOs supporting large-scale programs in international, agile settings with several disciplines, creating synergy between the projects in the program(s) covering a duration of 2 to 3 years and applies advanced understanding of entrepreneurial skills and drives and supports entrepreneurial environment for others.
• Guides and advises program managers on program execution regarding planning, changes, risks, issues, budget, benefit realization, and deliverables, providing critical insights and guidance to drive program success.
• Identifies relationships between various programs and business initiatives, actively providing improvements to optimize program outcomes and business alignment.
• Integral Program Managers, R&D Project managers for respective programs report to this role.
• Lead cross–functional program core team. These team includes all functions delivering to program (e.g. engineering, marketing, Q&R, operations, customer support, Technical publications, Purchase etc as applicable).
• Manage complete PDLM (Product Development Launch & Maintenance) activities ensuring smooth transitions across the PDLM lifecycle.
• Manage sustenance activities - complete MLD Projects and Change Management ensuring Patient Safety & Quality, Customer Satisfaction and Business Continuity. 
• Drive the cross functions to provide detailed plans based on which an optimized overall project plan is created (and approved) before PDC
• Drive schedule compliance across all functions and ensure agreed program milestones are secured
• Drive R&D project management both for New Products and Life Cycle Management
• Drive continuous improvements for Project execution bringing efficiency. 
• R&D Budget, Program Prioritization and Portfolio management together with Marketing.
• Manage Senior and cross-functional Stakeholders ensuring key stakeholders' expectations are met and aligned.
• Facilitate interaction, manage inter-dependencies & conflict resolution among all functional teams, regardless of geographic region.
• Communicate program status to BU management as required through periodic reports and formal program reviews.
• Identify risks / issues / scope creeps impacting project schedule, quality or cost and mitigate / take corrective action. Highlight these transparently to the BU management team.
• Responsible for vendor management & interfacing with other programs (delivering or client programs)
• Encourages partnering: Develops cooperative relationships to achieve results through a win – win relationship.
• Balancing Effectiveness and Efficiency in identifying/rolling out Program Management Initiatives; Have a vision of trending Improvement over time.
• Facilitates / Implements/ Contributes Organization wide Program Management Improvement Initiatives
• Supports team building: Builds mutual trust and encourages respect and cooperation among Cross Functional Teams.
• Acts as a trusted advisor to portfolio, program, or executive leadership, and communicating effectively at the leadership level in a global, complex stakeholder landscape.
• Coaches portfolio managers, program managers, and project managers in their responsibilities such as planning support and guidance during the planning phase, including project financials, business cases, project and program management charters and plans, and setting up project and program organizations.

Accountability and Authorities:

• Accountable for driving on time, on cost, and good quality project deliverables, as per agreed plan.
• Accountable for managing all PDLM activities and milestones (from Concept Start to Release for Volume Delivery)
• PDLM Lifecycle Management, Design History File.
• Life Cycle Management
• Approve cross-functional delivery plans and any changes within that.
• Approve project specific expenditures and cost escalations.
• Overall program execution and product delivery
• Work with cross-functional team and marketing team to develop portfolio.

Decision-making:

• Finalize overall program planning, scope & execution strategy.
• Decide and implement change management (when required)

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor’s or master’s Degree in an Engineering discipline.
• Master’s degree in business administration, Project Management or equivalent is desired for this role.
• 15+ years of experience within engineering domain
• 5+ years of experience in cross-functional project/program management
• Experience of managing multisite projects is a plus.
• Understands the needs of parent organization and business.
• Contribute to the roadmaps and the way program would contribute towards the BU roadmap.
• Expertise in Product realization strategies and BU quality manual
• Experience in both Waterfall and SAFe Methodologies. 
• Awareness of various cross functional roles and their contribution to the project Understands and has extensively used project / product development life cycles.
• Market awareness
• Project and/or Program management tools & skills
• Delegation skills
• Relationship management
• Ability to prioritize and drive key success factors.
• Strong Communication skills
• Excellent Teamwork
• Personal Quality & Productivity

Preferred Certification:

PMI certification in Portfolio Management (PfMP) recommended

Philips Project Management Expert Certification

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.

Onsite roles require full-time presence in the company’s facilities.

Field roles are most effectively done outside of the company’s main facilities, generally at the customers’ or suppliers’ locations.

This role is an office-based role.
 

About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.
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• Discover our rich and exciting history.
• 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 here.

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