Program Manager - Design for Excellence

Program Manager - Design for Excellence at Philips

Do you have a flair for achieving results through true collaboration with cross-functional & cross-business teams of various backgrounds? If so, join us.

Design for Excellence (DfX) plays a key role at Philips and collaborates between business functions to address total end-to-end cost and margin improvement. It often establishes new ways of working and encourages cooperation and transparency at a product and business level.

Your role

• Co-creating a 12–18-month business & profitability improvement roadmap with business & function partners based on data-driven insights.
• Coaching the project team members on the Design for Excellence and Design to Value Methodology
• Create an extended network of expertise and drive talent transformation
• Lead strategic initiatives to improve business and profitability, transforming team and business practices, for example: creating an engagement model for R&D concept development and optimizing portfolios by reducing components.
• Supporting knowledge management through maintaining and expanding our toolkit and best practice database

You're the right fit if:

• Master's degree in a relevant technical discipline (for example, Engineering or other technical background) + MBA or equivalent experience
• Professional with 8+ years of strong track record leading cross-functional projects, and developing teams, with a high level of comfort with ambiguity
• Comprehensive knowledge of Project Management principles, SAFe/Agile, Continuous improvement (for example, LEAN, Six Sigma, Kaizen techniques), value proposition creation and/or design thinking
• Proficient with data analysis and visualization tools (for example, Qlikview, Tableau, R, SQL, Python, OBS)
• Previous experience in a regulated market (for example, medical device, aerospace, automotive) with prior consulting, medical device experience a plus

About Philips
We are a health technology company. We built our entire company around the belief that every human matters, and we won't stop until everybody everywhere has access to the quality healthcare that we all deserve. Do the work of your life to help the lives of others.

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 commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Embrace the unexpected

Over 125 years ago, Frederik and Gerard Philips started a small light bulb company in Eindhoven. Little did they realize that it would become a global force of innovation, committed to improving billions of lives worldwide. But it did.

Today, Philips is a world leading health technology company with a vision to make life better for people worldwide through meaningful innovation. Making good on this promise depends on our passionate, inspirational, collaborative and diverse team.

We have over 80,000+ brilliant people around the world but are always looking for more. Like-minded, motivated, focused minds to join us in creating a healthier, more connected society while transforming themselves personally and professionally.

Working at Philips is more than a job. It's an experience filled with unexpected moments that will transform you in lasting and positive ways. Help us improve the world for the better while building a career that no one could have planned for. Even you.