Innovation Partnership Lead

Innovation Partnership Lead

You will own the Philips and VUMC innovation partnership development strategy and lead its execution, ensuring the partnership remains relevant and high-impact over time. This role involves interacting with executive stakeholders, day to day collaboration with healthcare professionals and compliance and legal teams, to drive a collaboration that is instrumental to Philips’ innovation agenda. 

Your role:

• Create and execute a partnership development strategy aligned to both organizations’ priorities, translating strategic intent into a structured innovation agenda and project funnel.  
• Own partnership governance with VUMC counterparts, including steering, reporting, and transparency on progress and outcomes.  
• Identify and develop joint innovation capabilities across Philips and VUMC, aimed at accelerating R&D, enabling faster translation from clinical insight to scalable innovation.  
• Ensure operational excellence of the innovation program: end-to-end tracking, timely delivery, issue/risk management, and escalation when needed.  
• Serve as Philips’ primary reference for VUMC’s innovation ecosystem, surfacing insights and opportunities that strengthen the partnership.  
• Facilitate alignment across Philips Businesses and Functions to enable successful co-creation and enterprise-wide impact.  
• Promote partnership achievements through internal and external communications and contribute to Philips-wide clinical partnership learning. 

You're the right fit if:

• Advanced degree in a scientific, engineering or medical field; PhD or MD preferred. 
• 7 years of experience in the healthcare industry, ideally in partnership management, research, or innovation. Knowledge of VUMC and/or Philips strongly desired.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to confidently lead meetings with senior and executive stakeholders. 
• Proven experience managing innovation programs within complex, matrixed organizations through influence. 
• Experience with healthcare data management is preferred 
• Experience working with leading hospitals or academic medical centers is a strong asset. 
• You are able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this Office/Remote position. 

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 is an office role.

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Philips Transparency Details

The pay range for this position in Nashville, TN is $126,000 to $177,400 Annually. 

The actual base pay offered may vary within the posted ranges depending on multiple factors including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, geographical location, and internal equity.    

In addition, other compensation, such as an annual incentive bonus, sales commission or long-term incentives may be offered.  Employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive Philips Total Rewards benefits program, which includes a generous PTO, 401k (up to 7% match), HSA (with company contribution), stock purchase plan, education reimbursement and much more.  Details about our benefits can be found here. 

At Philips, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top end of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each case. 

Additional Information

US work authorization is a precondition of employment. The company will not consider candidates who require sponsorship for a work-authorized visa, now or in the future. 

Company relocation benefits will not be provided for this position.  For this position, you must reside in or within commuting distance to Nashville TN.

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This requisition is expected to stay active for 45 days but may close earlier if a successful candidate is selected or business necessity dictates.  Interested candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible to ensure consideration.

Philips is an Equal Employment and Opportunity Employer including Disability/Vets and maintains a drug-free workplace.