Senior Program Manager

Senior Program Manager

Job Title: Senior Program Manager

Job Description

In this role, you have the opportunity to be responsible for End-to-End execution of new product introduction programs for Diagnostic X-ray business. From the project initiation until the introduction in the Market & field monitoring by 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 PMP guidelines and directives.

Your Role

• Formulating the project / program plan, along with larger cross functional teams
• Organize the resources to be used (quality, time, allocation, budget, dependencies 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
• Represents the project team to DXR Management
• Gathers and integrates project performance and progress information. Reports on the progress of the project with an agreed frequency on quality, status, time, and budget to DXR Management Team
• As an experienced program 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 Management Team. Manage the PMO tools & act as an internal gate keeper for process compliance.
• Drive implementation and facilitation of LEAN methods in PMO (Program Management Office:
  • DXR PMO Continuous Improvements
  • Creating and overseeing Daily Management and KPI Dashboard
  • Facilitate PRIDE and Problem Solving
  • 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 PMO team as a whole. Furthermore, manage its implementation.
  • Cooperate and do knowledge transfer within Philips and external parties.
• Manage project analytics to create transparency as projects managed by PMO are executed within agreed boundaries by defining, collecting and reporting appropriate KPIs. This includes the following aspects of project execution:
  • Manage PMO 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) Program Management Office (PMO) and report directly to the Head of PMO.

You Are a Great Fit If

• Bachelor's or master's 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
• Applied expertise with Lean Methodology and Lean Tools essential
• 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

You Will Stand Out If You Also Have

• 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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