LCM Technical Department Manager

The LCM Technical Department Manager at Philips is responsible for leading R&D and product implementation, coordinating cross-functional teams to enhance customer experience. This role involves overseeing development from initiation to delivery, supervising personnel, and ensuring efficient operation. The manager will align long-term vision with customer needs, contribute to innovation, oversee departmental capabilities, and foster an engaged, data-driven working environment. They will also provide leadership in technological competence and manage talent.

Must Have

• Manage R&D and implementation process of products and services
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver new or upgraded products
• Oversee development from initiation to delivery
• Supervise personnel for efficient operation of development function
• Coordinate long-term vision and strategy implementation
• Oversee departmental capabilities and competency development
• Foster an engaged, innovative working environment
• Drive excellent project execution
• Utilize extensive customer insights for decision-making
• Promote and adopt data-driven approaches
• Provide leadership in technological competence for software or hardware team
• Integrate development process with industrialization and purchasing processes
• Define quality technological roadmap for specific technologies or products
• Manage talent across the team (selection, performance, compensation, career development)
• 10+ years in Operational Excellence Methodologies
• 10+ years in Strategic Planning
• 10+ years in Project Management
• 10+ years in Budget Management
• 10+ years in People Management
• 10+ years in Product Development Lifecycle Management
• 10+ years in Systems Engineering
• 10+ years in Business Acumen
• 10+ years in Configuration Management (CM)
• 10+ years in Stakeholder Management
• Master's degree in electrical and/or Electronic and/or Mechanical and/or Computer Science Engineering, Innovation, Business or equivalent

LCM Technical Department Manager

You are responsible for managing the R&D and implementation process of products and services, coordinating cross-functional teams to deliver new or upgraded products for an enhanced customer experience, overseeing development from initiation to delivery, and supervising personnel to ensure efficient operation of the development function. You coordinate long-term vision and strategy implementation, aligning with customer needs and contributing to cross-organizational innovation. You oversees departmental capabilities, ensuring competency development for new technology adoption and maintaining resource allocation efficiency. You fosters an engaged, innovative working environment, drives excellent project execution, and leverages deep customer knowledge for effective decision-making. You provide leadership on technological competence, defines technological roadmaps, and manage talent across the team, ensuring operational effectiveness and stimulating advanced technological solutions.

Your Role:

• Coordination the implementation of a long-term vision and strategy to maximize future business value, aligning with current and future customer needs, and contributes to cross-organizational innovation projects.
• Overseeing the departmental capabilities, ensuring the development and maintenance of necessary competencies and knowledge for introducing new technology, along with resource allocation, technology oversight, and knowledge enhancement.
• Ensuring an engaged, innovative, and inspiring working environment by motivating, challenging, and coaching employees, stimulating entrepreneurship, and driving engagement.
• Ensuring outstanding project execution by consistently refining project management practices to surpass customer expectations, striving for continuous improvement and excellence.
• Utilizing extensive customer insights to drive informed decision-making and strategy implementation, aligning actions with customer needs and market trends to deliver exceptional results.
• Promoting and adopting data-driven approaches to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging analytics and metrics to optimize processes and drive performance improvements.
• Providing leadership in technological competence for a software or hardware team, influencing development policies and strategies to advance innovation and meet industry standards.
• Integrating the development process with industrialization and initial purchasing processes, fostering collaboration within the team to achieve cutting-edge technological solutions that align with business objectives.
• Assisting in defining quality technological roadmap for specific technologies or products, develops systems or products, and sets policies regarding tools and development environments, with influence over parts of the technology roadmap.
• Managing talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.

You are a part of the Mechatronic Development Cluster within the IGT Fixed Systems R&D global organization.

You are fit if:

Skills and experience

10+ years in

• Operational Excellence Methodologies
• Strategic Planning
• Project Management
• Budget Management
• People Management
• Product Development Lifecycle Management
• Systems Engineering
• Business Acumen
• Configuration Management (CM)
• Stakeholder Management

Qualification

Master's degree in electrical and/or Electronic and/or Mechanical and/or Computer Science Engineering, Innovation, Business or equivalent.

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.