Innovation Project Manager

Innovation Project Manager

The Innovation Project Manager is responsible for executing critical, multi-domain innovation projects, providing strategic direction, and aligning with diverse partners to drive the organization forward, working under limited supervision. The role leads complex projects, creates synergy across disciplines to maximize impact on strategic objectives, developing a deep understanding of PMBok and SAFe methodologies. The role serves as a coach and utilizes advanced planning techniques for efficient project execution, leveraging business acumen and translating market knowledge into actionable cases, fostering an entrepreneurial environment for organizational benefits. The role leads with a customer-centric mindset, contributing to policy development, and assessing project risks.
 

Your role:

• Facilitates a portfolio of multi-site (agile) projects across disciplines, managing dependencies and creating synergy to maximize collective impact on organization's strategic objectives.
• Executes critical, multi-domain innovation projects for the organization, providing clear strategic direction and ensuring alignment with diverse internal and external partners to drive the organization forward, working under limited supervision.
• Prepares and implements complex, multi-disciplinary projects, ensuring alignment with agreed-upon specifications, timelines, budgets, staffing, and strategic realization of a single end-to-end process while managing severe changes impacting multiple businesses.
• Develops a deep understanding and ability to consistently apply PMBok and SAFe methodologies, serving as a coach and resource while utilizing advanced planning techniques to ensure efficient project execution within timelines, budgets, and resource constraints.
• Leads with a customer-centric mindset throughout the project lifecycle, exceeding expectations by actively incorporating customer feedback to ensure solutions effectively address identified needs.
• Demonstrates strong project management methods, relevant organizational and end-to-end process knowledge, and experience managing projects, including professional knowledge of planning methods and estimation techniques (resources, time, and risk) specific to the Design discipline.
• Identifies and assesses project risks and opportunities, developing robust mitigation strategies while fostering a culture of thoughtful risk-taking with escalation to senior management when deemed necessary.
• Utilizes advanced analytical skills to address high complexity requests efficiently, applies conceptual thinking to develop innovative solutions and strategies.
• Negotiates agreement on and achieves project goals and objectives, monitoring the business case during project execution with an outcome-oriented view, focusing on maximizing project benefits and business impact.

You're the right fit if:

• Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Information Technology, Business Administration, Project Management, Program Management or equivalent.
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Bachelor's OR Minimum 5 years of experience with Master's in areas such as Innovation Management, Project Management or equivalent.

Preferred Experience:

MedTech, Manufacturing,

Preferred Certification:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certified
• Philips Project Management Certification: Project Management Practitioner

Preferred Skills:

• Strategic Planning

• Continuous Improvement

• Stakeholder Management

• Risk Management

• Data Analysis & Interpretation

• Business Acumen

• People Management

• Agile Methodology

• Troubleshooting

• Resource Planning & Allocation

• Quality Assurance (QA)

• Budget Management

• Requirements Gathering

• Technical Acumen

• Commercial Acumen

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.
 

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