Innovation Project Manager

Job Title

Innovation Project Manager

Job Description

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 :

Preferred Experience :

MedTech, Manufacturing,

Preferred Certification :

Preferred Skills :

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.

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 culture of impact with care .

Skills Required

Strategic Planning, Project Management, Risk Management, pmbok, Business Acumen, Safe, Stakeholder Management, Troubleshooting, Agile Methodology, Budget Management, Requirements Gathering, Continuous Improvement, People Management