**Job Title**: Manufacturing Project Manager
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 80,000, 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.
Philips Costa Rica has an exciting opportunity to join our Manufacturing Engineering Group within Image Guided Therapy Devices (IGT-D) as a Manufacturing Project Manager.
In this role, you are a key player in producing medical devices that help doctors decide on critical life-saving procedures for patients around the globe, specifically by leading and supporting engineers with key project implementations.
We are seeking a project manager for our pressure wires sustaining manufacturing engineering group.
This position will lead project prioritization, resourcing, implementation, and delivery with cross functional teams.
**Project Management**
- Experienced in the work of project management with the ability to teach others how to: initiate, plan, execute, monitor, and control projects through all phases, providing guidance to ensure expected outcome is delivered.
- Passionate about project management processes, and its use to deliver outcomes.
- Able to help the team prioritize: focusing on the most impactful deliverables, and distributing the work among the team to maximize growth opportunities and allow people to do what they do best every day
- Able to help teammates plan their work in Agile-type sprints to deliver results predictably on time both for minor tasks and longer projects
- Sets clear expectations and ensures the team has the resources needed to achieve their goals
- Removes roadblocks and helps teams get unstuck
- Organized and detail oriented to keep track of the many requests and ensure follow up.
**Communication**
- Has excellent verbal and written communication skills (in Spanish and English).
- Able to communicate to all levels of the organization both up and down, clearly, and simply, summarizing critical information.
- Influential and convincing whenever exchanging ideas.
- Readily shares information and expects others to do the same
- Generous with recognition for good performance; putting the spotlight on your team instead of yourself
- Gives feedback that can help teammates develop and grow
**Personal and Leadership Qualities**
- Brings a sense of urgency to deliver value to the costumer as fast as possible.
- A positive, agile, curious, energetic leader-by-influence.
Has a can-do attitude and thrives on working in a fast-paced, dynamic, constantly changing work environment.
Enjoys the excitement of creating a winning team.
- Creates an environment where people are motivated to achieve goals while having fun together
- Able to generate environments where colleagues want to participate and team up.
- Constantly seeks and acts upon feedback from the team, our stakeholders, and customers to improve
- Has excellent verbal and written communication skills (in Spanish and English).
- Builds collaborative interpersonal relationships using excellent negotiation skills to create win-win agreements with stakeholders.
- Knows when to challenge the team and when to support them
- Models the behaviors you want to see from others to create a respectful, open, professional, inclusive, psychologically safe work environment where people feel that their opinions count.
- Invites vigorous debate where ideas win based on their technical and practical merit
**Requirements**:
- Typical experience required is 5 years as an Engineer/Project Management in a related field, 1-2 years of Project Management leadership.
- Excellent English Skills are necessary.
- Four-year technical degree required, preferably in Engineering or Science
- Proven Project Management skills is required.
**Preferred**
- Medical Device experience preferred
- PM Certifications (CAPM, PMP, Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, etc ) is desirable.
**In return, we offer you**
In order to develop your full potential, we will offer you the flexibility, encouragement and