Director Engineering Excellence
PhilipsHaifaUpdate time: April 8,2020
Job Description

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In this role, you have the opportunity to

be responsible for ensuring that the engineering practices across all global development programs in CT/AMI Business are executed with world-class quality. The role requires to influence the practices of the CT/AMI organization across the whole product lifecycle, shaping clear vision of development practices and working with other members of the global R&D Management Team to ensure that the work practices and competence in their teams supports this vision.

in this role you will be leading a team of professionals in multiple R&D sites and drive competence development, process improvement and achievement of product quality.

You are responsible for

  • Creating a north-star vision of how good engineering practices leading to world-class quality look like

  • Operationalizing the vision into an improvement program for the whole R&D organization globally

  • Leading a global team of professionals that are together executing the improvement plans

  • Globally responsible for the achieving the product quality KPIs on portfolio level (cost of non-quality, complaint rate)

  • Working in close relation with Q&R to ensure compliance to design controls and ability to represent R&D in external and internal audits

  • Understand external factors including: Regulatory, Customers, Competition, and Industry trends

  • Drives functional excellence including: Professionalism in domain expertise, Building up of strong, innovative teams, World class productivity, Promote domain knowledge, system thinking, and customer understanding

  • Enables process management including: Support for all global initiatives, Prioritization of team goals, Enable adequate coverage for deliverables, Build and promote strong processes, Drives accountability across the team

  • Exemplifies global thinking including: Promoting openness to learning things and leverage others’ capabilities, Sharing capabilities across global locations, Building an environment of trust

You are a part of

Global R&D Management Team of CT/AMI

To succeed in this role, you should have the following skills and experience

  • Master’s degree in Engineering or related discipline.

  • Deep knowledge and experience in system engineering, product and SW quality, design controls and reliability

  • 10+ years of experience working as an Engineer or in a similar field.

  • 3+ years of experience as a R&D group leader or equivalent.

  • Experience in a regulated / process-oriented environment such as medical device development

  • Experience with imaging systems preferred

  • Experience managing teams in multiple locations

  • Strong influencing and communication skills, ability to work with all seniority levels and manage internal/external stack-holders

  • Business proficiency in English

In return, we offer you

To be part of a company that is committed to improving the lives of 3 billion people a year by 2030 through market-driven innovations in Healthcare. We are passionate about offering our employees the challenges, responsibilities, coaching and learning opportunities needed for their personal and professional development.

We believe in ample reward and special recognition for a job well done, and we welcome the cultural awareness, mutual understanding, open minds and out-of-the-box thinking that come from international multidisciplinary team working.

Why should you join Philips?

Working at Philips is more than a job. It’s a calling to create a healthier society through meaningful work, focused on improving 3 billion lives a year by delivering innovative solutions across the health continuum . Our people experience a variety of unexpected moments when their lives and careers come together in meaningful ways. Learn more by watching this video .

To find out more about what it’s like working for Philips at a personal level, visit the Working at Philips page on our career website, where you can read stories from our employee blog . Once there,you can also learn about our recruitment process , or find answers to some of the frequently asked questions .

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