Program and Project Planning: Translate approved requests into clearly defined programs and projects with established scope, deliverables, ownership, resource plans, budgets, timelines, and success criteria.
Portfolio Governance: Establish and continuously improve PMO processes, governance frameworks, milestone reviews, decision rights, escalation mechanisms, and performance reporting.
Budget and Resource Management: Lead portfolio budgeting, forecasting, capacity planning, and resource allocation, ensuring transparency of costs, commitments, and financial risks.
Stakeholder Management: Collaborate with cross-functional and senior stakeholders to align priorities, negotiate scope and funding, resolve dependencies, and manage delivery expectations.
Executive Reporting: Provide clear, data-driven portfolio updates, identify critical risks and opportunities, and present recommendations to senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
Strategic Decision-Making: Exercise independent judgment to challenge, defer, or decline requests that lack strategic alignment, business value, sufficient clarity, funding, or organizational capacity.
Program Performance and Risk Management: Oversee portfolio execution across scope, schedule, budget, quality, resources, risks, interdependencies, and benefits realization.
People Leadership and Development: Lead, coach, and develop project and program management professionals, building PMO capabilities, strengthening execution excellence, and supporting succession planning.
Product Development Excellence: Apply product development and lifecycle management expertise to guide cross-functional execution, design reviews, lifecycle decisions, and delivery readiness.
Digital Transformation and Continuous Improvement: Drive the practical adoption of Agile methodologies, digital tools, automation, data analytics, and AI to improve execution efficiency, transparency, quality, and decision-making.
Mandatory Qualifications and Experience
Minimum 18 years of professional experience in product development or a closely related engineering environment.
Minimum 10 years of experience in project, program, or portfolio management.
PMP certification is mandatory.
Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional, multi-site product development or lifecycle management programs.
Mandatory experience in people management, including leading and developing teams.
Strong understanding of Product Development Lifecycle Management (PDLM), structured development reviews, and cross-functional engineering integration.
Proven responsibility for project or portfolio budgets, financial forecasting, resource planning, and financial performance.
Experience managing portfolios that include both short-cycle initiatives and complex, multi-year programs.
Strong stakeholder management, influencing, negotiation, and executive presentation skills.
Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing demands, challenge requests, and make difficult portfolio-level decisions.
Experience establishing, implementing, or improving PMO frameworks, portfolio governance, and project management processes.
Proven expertise in managing program risks, interdependencies, organizational change, and business benefits.
Key Competencies
Strategic portfolio and program leadership
Engineering and product development lifecycle expertise
Financial planning and resource optimization
Governance, risk management, and change control
Executive stakeholder engagement and influencing
People leadership and talent development
Data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement
Digital transformation and Agile project management
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.
About Philips
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If you’re interested in this role and have many, but not all, of the experiences needed, we encourage you to apply. You may still be the right candidate for this or other opportunities at Philips. Learn more about our culture of impact with care here.
