**Job Title**: Project Management Specialist
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.
**You are responsible for**
- Program and protfolio owner
- Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projects
- Ensure that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
- Develop metrics to view and track perormance of the PMO and project owners
- Developing project scopes and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility
- Ensure adherence to procedures on traditional and agile methodologies and create OKRs or KPIs to track
- Ensure resource availability and allocation by resolving conflicts and setting priorities within the organizatoin.
- Develop a detailed project plan to track progress
- Use appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
- Measure project performance using appropriate systems, tools and techniques
- Report and escalate to management as needed
- Manage the relationship with the client and all stakeholders
- Perform risk management to minimize project risks
- Establish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendors
- Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation
- Collaborates with and establishes rapport with all levels of project functions including R&D, Operations, Marketing, Quality & Regulatory.
- Develop detailed project plan to track progress
- Develop appropriate verification techniques to manage changes in project scope, schedule and costs
- Foster a change management environment that effectively delivers change while, accelerating outcomes, and minimizing transitional disruption with impacted stakeholders
- Deliver project excellence by incorporating best practices in project management to meet and or exceed customer needs. Identify process issues and recommend improvements to team members and management. Resolve project team conflicts.
- Develop and manage project plan to meet deliverables, including cross-functional project timeline and follow-up with project team members to ensure timely completion of tasks.
- Help to prioritize activities among several programs to to balance resource availability, program status and schedule, and business need.
- Prepares and presents information on activities, issues, and risks in the projects being managed on an as-needed basis to assure the continuity of projects. Raises issues to the appropriate level of management.
**You are a part of**
Project Management Office
**To succeed in this role, you'll need a customer-first attitude and the following**
- Minimum of 3-5 years of project management experience, preferably in the medical industry.
- Experience in developing and launching medical device products
- Strong oral and written communication skills. Strong interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve problems. Demonstrated ability to lead programs / projects. Ability to document, plan, market, and execute programs. Established project management skills.
- Excellence in program management, organizational design, execution planning and control competency
- Project Management Professional (PMP), Design Thinking and Agile certification preferred.
- MBA considered a plus.
- Commercial, marketing, customer service, customer experience, insights, data & analytics in a health care/medical device company preferred
- Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work with a wide variety of people at all levels of the organization within a variety of departments.
- Cross-functional experience in areas is desired
**In return, we offer you**
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