Project Manager Services & Solution Development Programs (Freelance)

Prepares and implements projects in multi-discipline areas in accordance with agreed conditions on specification, time, cost and staffing. Projects have an innovative character. Co-ordination between the sub-projects (or vendor managed projects for IT). Multi-site, complex project. Manages a project team of 15 team members. Coaching of team members

You are responsible for:

Lead & Drive Services; Solution Development Projects and Programs.

Your responsibilities include:

-Formulating the project plan (both in ppt for management summary and documents as project management plan), in accordance with the goals and timing, set by management; The plan includes resources, costs, risk assessment and quality aspects.

-Leading, managing, coordinating with cross-functional groups for the execution and release of Solution and Services Projects (In international context) & manages the constant communication with Local & Global Leadership Team - (both in ppt for management summary and documents following good document practice)

-Providing business management with regular project performance status, variances to plan and identification of corrective actions and reports (both in ppt for management summary and documents following good document practice)

-Executing the processes and standards in adherence to compliance with safety, regulatory- and environmental requirements as well as local laws , Philips General Business principles and other policies

-Driving operational excellence of project execution to achieve first time right predictable project execution

-Orchestrating/ Facilitatingbrainstorming workshop sessions with multiple experts and setup a structured transformation Project for developing Scalable Services & SolutionsApply lean & Agile development principles.

You will be a part of

The Services & Solution development team (Reporting to the Services & Solution development Program Manager) and work closely together with Services Innovation and development teams

We are looking for

-New Services (or Product) Development Experience as a Project Manager ( from development, to verify & validation via pilots, deployments(NPI) in markets)

-Prior Philips experience with Philips development processes like PDLM-s (Product Development & Lifecycle Management for Services & Solution Development) is highly preferable would understand how different deliverables/ swimlanes are linked to each other in a project. Alternative worked for companies with similar development processes

-Solid Project management experience (both Agile and waterfall, V model knowledge and able to link different development deliverables with different function).

Nice to have

-consultancy background who can make conceptual visualizations of brainstorming sessions (here is a I2M consultant part)

Highly preferred

-someone worked in Innovation, development and Services environment (Idea2Market, and at least understands Market2 Order & Order2Cash activities)

-someone who has worked in corporate culture like Philips (or comparable organization), and is used to leading in a matrix organization

-Bachelor/Master degree in a technical field (MBA is highly preferred) multiple years experience in the relevant domain (Services, Solution development)Strong Track record in project management Fundamentals (PMP certified highly preferred)

-Conceptual thinking capabilities (Translate Global Architecture to requirements and Design and determine production impact) AND hands-on can-do mentality.

-Profound understanding of process FMEs, design reviews, process validation and knowledge of service process design

-Strong presentation skills i.e. can make high quality slides of current Problems, strategy moving forward, progress updates to management etc.

-Good ppts and document writing skills, embrace good documentation practices and project- and stakeholder managements skills.

-Ability to lead a team of professionals in global context

-Fluency in English language (Dutch language skill is always nice to have)

-Proven experience with efficient and effective problem solving techniques