Sr. Program Manager-Patient Safety & Quality

At Philips, we believe that every human matters. As a global health-tech leader, we focus on improving people’s health and wellbeing through meaningful innovation. The people who work here share our passion and are motivated to bring this purpose to life.

The Senior Program Manager will lead and execute on critical Patient Safety and Quality Transformation programs, playing a critical role in ensuring Philips’ Medical products are safe, reliable and compliant with internal/external quality/regulatory standards.

Roles and Responsibilities

• The Senior Program Manager provides program leadership and execution of patient safety and quality initiatives through co-creation, project/ program/ portfolio management, change management and analytics.
• Will facilitate quality in design by partnering with Business Unit R&D and Operations.
• Gaining agreements on and achieving project goals and objectives, balancing, and managing the project scope (including requirements), schedule, budget, quality, resources, and risks
• Monitoring the business case during project execution with an outcome-oriented view focusing on the maximization of the project benefits and business impact.
• Leading diverse project team(s), empowering the team members to become efficient and effective.
• Building partnerships with the project’s stakeholders (both internal and external), leverage them to achieve organizational goals, and be able to influence their opinions and negotiate effective solutions.
• Investigating customer expectations and responding to their feedback
• Contextualizing organizational goals and shifts, recognizing opportunities, and turning those into business value.
• Monitoring project activities, appropriately balancing risk taking and issue escalation and setting up detailed progress / escalation reports (including suggested corrective actions) for the project steering team.
• Ensures Philips standards (Process/Systems/Way‐of‐Working) are adopted as outlined in Philips Business System (PBS) and in the local Management System based on Philips Excellence Process Framework (PEPF).
• Reporting to the Head of Patient Safety & Quality Project Management, you will work in a dynamic organization that includes Quality, Regulatory Affairs, Medical Office, Compliance, Quality Services, and Transformations. You will partner with R&D, Operations and work closely across businesses, regions, and functions.
• This Hybrid role may require travel up to 10%.

Qualifications and Experience

• You’ve acquired a minimum of 7 years’ experience working in FDA regulated environments, with a focus on Patient Safety, Quality/Regulatory and Transformation Projects/Programs.
• You have proven experience meeting project goals and objectives, balancing, and managing project scope, requirements, schedules, budgets, quality, resources, and managing risks.
• You have experience managing projects involving large scale data & analytics.
• You’re experience in change management initiatives and Portfolio Management.
• You’re able to build partnerships with Internal/External project stakeholders, influence their opinions and negotiate effective solutions.
• You have proven experience leading global, diverse project teams, empowering the team members to become efficient and effective.
• You have a minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree (Required), PMP certification highly desired.
• You must be able to successfully perform the following minimum Physical, Cognitive and Environmental job requirements with or without accommodation for this position. 
• 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.