Data and AI Specialist/Product Owner

Your role:

• Work on projects that combine product ownership activities, project management, and use case development, leveraging experience in coding (e.g. Python, R, Databricks) and database knowledge (e.g. SQL, Qlik, PowerBI).
• Partner with business teams to understand their data needs and challenges, translating requirements into well-defined technical specifications and actionable data solutions.
• Take on the role of Product Owner for requirements definition where required.
• Ensure continuous improvement of data engineering and AI capabilities within the team by evaluating emerging technologies, optimizing processes, and driving innovation to deliver value-added solutions to the organization.
• Oversee the analysis of large and complex datasets, support building AI models to uncover key insights, and guide business decisions.
• Direct the development and implementation of efficient data pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from diverse sources, ensuring data integrity, consistency, and compliance with governance standards.
• Be involved in the building and deployment of AI models in production environments, ensuring adherence to best practices for security, scalability, and model explainability, and oversee ongoing monitoring and maintenance activities.
• Ensure initiatives adhere to regulatory standards, privacy policies, and ethical guidelines in the collection, storage, and use of data assets in line with organizational policies.
• Provide documentation of data pipelines, models, and processes, ensuring clarity, maintainability, and effective knowledge transfer within the team and across departments.
• Lead hands-on troubleshooting efforts for data quality issues, conduct root cause analysis, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and implement effective solutions.
• When needed, coordinate with external service providers for detailed analysis, ensuring work meets business needs.
• You must currently be living in The Netherlands (relocation will not be provided for this role).

You're the right fit if:

• You are living in the Netherlands.

Education:

• Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Management, Data Science, Econometrics, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Mathematics, Statistics, or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with a Bachelor's degree OR minimum 3 years of experience with a Master's degree in areas such as Data Handling, Data Analytics, AI Modeling, or equivalent experience in complex transformation programs where you have played a key role in driving the project through completion.

Experience:

• Experience using programming languages such as Python, and experience in data analytics and data visualization.
• Experience as a Product Owner or Project Manager in a technical IT or AI-oriented environment.
• Experience or affinity for working in Agile environments and the ability to support Scrum teams.
• Ability to effectively engage and manage senior stakeholders to foster strong partnerships with the Data and AI team.
• Experience in AI algorithm development is appreciated.

Technical / Functional Skills:

• Statistical Methods
• Data Harmonization & Processing
• Data analytics (e.g. PowerBI, Qlik, Excel)
• Understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Azure DevOps
• Business Acumen to map various business processes
• Stakeholder Management
• Data Governance
• Continuous Improvement
• Foundational Project Management or willingness to get certified

How we work together: We believe that we are better together than apart. For this office-based role, this means working in-person in the office at least 3 days per week.

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.