LCM Department Manager

This leadership role requires a professional specialized in People Management and Life Cycle Management within a highly regulated Medical environment, often involving products with Moving parts.

Job Responsibilities

1. Strategy, Vision & Innovation

• Coordinates the implementation of a long-term vision and strategy to maximize future business value, aligning with current and future customer needs, and contributes to cross-organizational innovation projects.

• Utilizes extensive customer insights to drive informed decision-making and strategy implementation, aligning actions with customer needs and market trends to deliver exceptional results.

• Assists in defining a quality technological roadmap for specific technologies or products, develops systems or products, and sets policies regarding tools and development environments, with influence over parts of the technology roadmap.

2. People & Competency Leadership

• Manages talent across the team, while driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, career development, and ensuring effective operational management.

• Ensures an engaged, innovative, and inspiring working environment by motivating, challenging, and coaching employees, stimulating entrepreneurship, and driving engagement.

• Oversees departmental capabilities, ensuring the development and maintenance of necessary competencies and knowledge for introducing new technology, along with resource allocation, technology oversight, and knowledge enhancement.

3. Technical & Operational Execution

• Ensures outstanding project execution by consistently refining project management practices to surpass customer expectations, striving for continuous improvement and excellence.

• Promotes and adopts data-driven approaches to enhance operational efficiency and effectiveness, leveraging analytics and metrics to optimize processes and drive performance improvements.

• Provides leadership in technological competence for a software or hardware team, influencing development policies and strategies to advance innovation and meet industry standards.

• Integrates the development process with industrialization and initial purchasing processes, fostering collaboration within the team to achieve cutting-edge technological solutions that align with business objectives.

Required Skills & Knowledge

• Minimum Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience with a Bachelor's OR Minimum 3 years of experience with a Master's in areas such as Manufacturing, Production, Engineering, Management, System Design, or R&D or equivalent.

• Process & Quality: Lean Six Sigma or equivalent, Operational Excellence Methodologies.

• Management & Strategy: Strategic Planning, People Management, Project Management, Budget Management, Stakeholder Management, Business Acumen.

• Technical: Systems Engineering, Product Development Lifecycle Management, Hardware Engineering, Configuration Management (CM).

Our Offer

• If you’re looking for meaningful work and a chance to tackle complex challenges, broaden your skills and expertise, and become an even more sought-after professional, you’ll find all that and more with project work at Philips.

• You will work for Philips and become a contract employee of a Randstad company.