Senior Program Manager

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Senior Program Manager

In this role, you have the opportunity to be responsible for End-to-End execution of projects for Diagnostic X-ray business. From the initial start until the introduction in the Market, or internal delivery, by gaining agreements on and achieving project scope and objectives while balancing schedule, cost, quality, requirements and keeping abreast of developments in project management tools and processes as well as technical domain, e.g. agile software development. Manages projects ensuring execution is in line with project guidelines and directives.

Your role:

• Formulating the (sub) project plan, in consultation with management and other parties concerned on base of the requirements

• Organize the resources to be used (quality, time, allocation, budget and information), helps the team to organize and specifies the quality standard in the processes

• Identifies the risks of the project (f.e. specs, costs, planning, etcetera) and develops scenarios to overcome these risks by defining corrective actions and driving the projects to closure

• Coaches and directs project team members and gives them operational guidance, both technically and organizationally, including agile software development when applicable (where necessary, directs sub-Is responsible and facilitates for implementation and realization and release (if applicable) by the project team according to the project plan (specification, quality, time, money, information) and organization

• Represents the (sub)-project team in the overall project to optimize fit for use and overall effectiveness

• Gathers and integrates project performance and progress information. Reports on the progress of the project with an agreed frequency on quality, status, time, and money to senior management and to the project members

• As an experienced project manager, he/she needs to develop and implement Project Management methods, enhance project management capabilities of the team. Coach and support project managers e.g. in project planning and gate reviews with the MT. Manage the PMO tools & act as an internal gate keeper for process compliance.

• Drive implementation and facilitation of LEAN methods in BPO:

  • Manage DXR BPO Improvement KANBAN (roadmap to success)

  • Creating and overseeing BPO Daily Management and BPO KPI Dashboard

  • Facilitate PRIDE and Problem Solving

  • Prepare introduction of Safe Agile planned for 2021and lead implementation in 2021

  • Identify improvement potential across running projects and programs and manage solving or leveraging them

• Drive project management excellence within the DXR organization across sites:

  • Continuously increase portfolio, program and project management excellence

  • Implement project management standards within DXR across sites

  • Act as process owner for Project Management and Milestone Review QMS processes and in the Business Management System (BMS).

  • Ensure that the project managers are working according to QMS and BMS.

  • Support project managers to meet their committed project targets in terms of quality, scope, time and budget

  • Manage CoE support team that supports the project managers in their daily business, e.g. by scheduling daily operations of their projects (reporting, setting up meetings etc)

  • Create a PM competence development framework.

  • Assess project management competencies/capabilities and define a competence development roadmap for each project manager individually and for the BPO team as a whole. Furthermore, manage its implementation.

  • Cooperate and do knowledge transfer within Philips and external parties.

• Manage project analytics to create transparency, if projects managed by BPO are executed within agreed boundaries by defining, collecting and reporting appropriate KPIs. This includes the following aspects of project execution:

  • Manage BPO resource allocation overall and per project in alignment with project managers

  • Monitor and analyze project relevant KPI:

    • Timeline, status and progress

    • Budget and project cost forecast

    • Quality status

    • Project risks

• Provide a consolidated reporting to DXR Management and other Philips stakeholders.

You are a part of Diagnostics X-Ray (DXR) Business Program Office (BPO) and report directly to the Global BPO Leader.

You are fit if:

• Master Degree in a Management or Engineering discipline.

• Typically, 15+ years of relevant working experience, including all aspects of project development and execution, demonstrating record of project management success, both in results achieved and in use of professional methodology

• Experience within Project Management domain, with actual proven hands-on project management experience for large end-customer related product development and launch projects based on a proven successful track record

• Deep proven and applied expertise in project management tools & skills and product realization strategies is mandatory (PMI Certification)

• Applied expertise with Lean Methodology and Lean Tools essential

• Background as Business Process Owner or Engineer desired

• Experience of healthcare related Quality Management Systems (QMS) and Project Management Office related Business Management Systems (PMO BMS)

• Experience in (peer-)coaching, especially with regards to project Management

Skills:

• Excellent analytical skills, with a very structured approach.

• Passionate believer in and advocate for project management and lean methods

• Passionate and skilled listener, analyst and improver

• Strong process oriented thinker

• Strong team player, that enjoys coaching and growing people and is perceived as excellent coach and support by his peers

• High sense of responsibility and ownership

• Good stakeholder and relationship management skills

• Strong communication skills

• Professional knowledge of project management methods and estimation techniques (resources, time and risks) for the relevant technical/functional discipline 

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.
 

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