Senior Innovation Project Manager

Your Role

Strategic Program Leadership

• Lead large-scale, cross-business innovation programs, ensuring successful end-to-end delivery of new platforms, systems, and AI-enabled products.
• Translate customer, clinical, and consumer needs into scope, architectural decisions, value creation models, and execution plans.
• Drive the entire innovation realization lifecycle: value proposition → concept → architecture → development → validation and verification → regulatory readiness → industrialization → launch → lifecycle updates.
• Ensure solutions create value across Philips businesses, maximizing re-use, platform thinking, and enterprise benefit.

Execution & Governance

• Own and steer program scope, budget, schedule, quality, and risk mitigation.
• Ensure compliance with Philips QMS, product safety standards, medical regulations (FDA, MDR, ISO 13485, ISO 14971, IEC 62304), and consumer product compliance requirements.
• Drive integrated execution with R&D, Data Science/AI, Design, Supply Chain, Industrialization, Service, Commercial, and Regulatory teams.
• Run program governance (PCT, steering committees), ensuring clear stakeholder alignment and decision-making.

AI, Digital & Systems Engineering Leadership

• Integrate AI/ML capabilities into products or program management workflows.
• Apply system engineering and architecture discipline across hardware, embedded software, cloud services, consumer electronics, and medical systems.
• Safeguard cybersecurity, data governance, interoperability, and real-world clinical/consumer workflow integration.

Cross-Business Influence & External Engagement

• Support programs across any Philips business, from complex medical systems to personal health and household innovations.
• Build strategic relationships with external partners, OEM/ODM suppliers, academic institutions, and clinical collaborators.
• Analyze industry trends, competition, and emerging technologies, bringing strong outside-in perspective to IEN and business stakeholders.
• Represent IEN and Philips externally in relevant ecosystem/industry forums when required.

Team Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead multi-disciplinary teams across diverse technical domains and geographic locations.
• Shape a high-performance culture that thrives in complex, ambiguous, and cross-business environments.
• Actively contribute to improving processes, tooling, portfolio reporting, and the PM capability maturity across Philips.

You’re the Right Fit If You Have

Education & Background

• Minimally a Master’s degree in engineering, technology, computer science, biomedical engineering, systems engineering, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience leading complex, multi-site, multidisciplinary innovation or product development programs.
• Proven success bringing medical devices, digital/AI solutions, consumer health, or household appliances from concept to market launch.
• Demonstrated experience with AI/ML-driven products or leveraging AI tools in program management.
• Experience working with partners across development, supply chain, industrialization, and regulatory domains.

Leadership & Behavioral Competencies

• Strategic thinker who goes beyond the boundaries of a single business to drive enterprise-wide impact.
• Capable of making strong decisions in ambiguity and communicating difficult messages constructively to senior stakeholders.
• Influencer who can align stakeholders across diverse priorities, functions, and businesses.
• Patient-safety-first and consumer-first mindset.
• Strong organizational awareness, resilience, and integrity.
• Recognized as a role model who invests in developing others, not only in personal performance.

Professional Skills

• Expert-level project/program management skills; PMP, IPMA, SAFe, or equivalent certification required.

Attributes

• Strategic, forward-looking mindset with high business and technical acumen.
• Exceptional problem-solving and leadership maturity.
• Comfortable navigating high complexity across medical systems, AI, software, consumer electronics, and household technology.
• High energy, high ownership, and motivated by impact over comfort.

About Philips

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