Senior Program Manager

Overview

Lead end-to-end execution of new product introduction programs for the Diagnostic X-ray business, from project initiation through market introduction and field monitoring, within a Program Management Office role reporting to the Head of PMO.

What you'll do

• Formulate the project/program plan with larger cross-functional teams and organize resources (quality, time, allocation, budget, dependencies and information).
• Identify project risks (specs, costs, planning, etc.), develop scenarios to overcome them with corrective actions, and drive projects to closure.
• Coach and direct project team members with operational guidance, both technically and organizationally.
• Represent the project team to DXR Management and report on quality, status, time and budget at an agreed frequency.
• Develop and implement project management methods and enhance project management capabilities of the team.
• Coach and support project managers in project planning and gate reviews with the Management Team.
• Manage PMO tools and act as internal gatekeeper for process compliance.
• Drive implementation and facilitation of Lean methods, PRIDE and problem solving in the PMO, and create and oversee Daily Management and KPI dashboards.
• Identify improvement potential across running projects and programs and manage solving or leveraging them.
• Drive project management excellence across DXR sites by implementing project management standards.
• Act as process owner for Project Management and Milestone Review QMS processes and the Business Management System (BMS), ensuring project managers work according to QMS and BMS.
• Support project managers in meeting committed targets for quality, scope, time and budget.
• Manage the CoE support team that supports project managers in daily operations.
• Create a PM competence development framework, assess competencies and define competence development roadmaps for each project manager and the PMO team.
• Cooperate and do knowledge transfer within Philips and with external parties.
• Manage project analytics by defining, collecting and reporting KPIs on timeline, status and progress, budget and cost forecast, quality status and project risks.
• Manage PMO resource allocation overall and per project in alignment with project managers.
• Provide consolidated reporting to DXR Management and other Philips stakeholders.

What you'll need

• 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, with a record of project management success in results achieved and use of professional methodology.
• 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 and skills and product realization strategies (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 regard to project management.

Nice to 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 who enjoys coaching and growing people, perceived as an excellent coach and support by 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.

Details

• Office-based role; working in-person at least 3 days per week.
• Location: Bangalore.