R&D Project Manager/ Senior Project Manager

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In this role, you have the opportunity to

Lead Engineering projects related to patient monitoring and defibrillators for the Philips Emergency Care business. You will be a key project leader within the Global Emergency Care R&D PMO Team and report to the Director of Programme Management, Pre-hospital and Informatics, Emergency Care.

You are responsible for

• Working with key stakeholders to create, maintain and execute plans to achieve the business’ product development and R&D ‘must wins’ and deliver key business outcomes
• Liaising with the R&D, Operations, Quality, Regulatory, Product management, Clinical, Marketing teams, suppliers/subcontractors etc. to keep projects and programs running smoothly and on time.
• Developing cost, time and staffing estimates for assigned projects and tracking against baseline
• Reporting on progress, issues and risks to key stakeholders in defined formats and forums
• Ensuring the consistent use of tools, processes and documentation as defined in QMS, Philips’s systems and Ways of Working
• Ensuring that project team members are clear about deliverable targets and timescales and managing/reporting delays as they occur.
• Supporting the project team practically to remove roadblocks and ensure projects run as smoothly as possible
• Supporting resource allocation and prioritization to ensure business needs and overall objectives are met.
  

You are a part of

The Philips Global Emergency Care R&D PMO (Pre-hospital and Informatics) Team and will lead R&D NPI projects and engineering activities. These activities require a broad spectrum of skills/capabilities, from project management, SDLC and embedded software engineering to managing risk, security, technical investigations, and labelling.

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

Essential:

• Bachelor/Master’s Degree in a relevant discipline
• 6+ years in engineering/R&D project management
• 5+ years leading a multi-disciplinary team developing medical device hardware/software
• Good technical knowledge and understanding of electronics and mechanical design aspects of medical devices
• Good understanding of medical device hardware/ software concepts and familiarity with standard methodologies
• Experience managing parallel development projects effectively to time, cost and quality presets
• Excellent project governance experience
• Strong ability to work cross-culturally in a global environment with geographically dispersed project teams
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills while maintaining high-quality standards
• Ability to tailor information and pitch at differing levels of detail, especially presenting management information to assist with and enable decision making
• Strong experience with project governance and a methodical approach to managing projects and programs
• Strong interpersonal skills, communication, attention to detail and initiative.
  

Desirable:

• Experience/knowledge in the areas below
  
  • Patient monitoring and defibrillation
  • development of hardware/ software as a medical device
  • MDR, CE & FDA regulatory, military & aviation standard requirements
  • Working within an organization operating an ISO13485 engineering quality system
    
• PMP certification.
  

In return, we offer you

Philips is committed to helping each employee reach their personal goals for development. With the mentoring/coaching programs, stretch assignments are offered to employees. We also offer competitive compensation, outstanding benefits, and flexibility in a career with a positive and supportive atmosphere to develop your talents further.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum. As a result, our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways.

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website. Once there, you can also learn about our recruitment process or find answers to some frequently asked questions.

Equal opportunities

Philips is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

Should you require any reasonable adjustments to enable your participation in the interview process, please advise us of this upon application.