**Job Responsibilities:** * Formulates and implements 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. * Oversees departmental capabilities, ensuring a long-term focus on necessary competences and knowledge for new technology introduction, while also overseeing resource allocation, technology, and architectural responsibilities. * Cultivates an engaged, innovative, and inspiring work environment by motivating, challenging, and coaching employees, fostering innovation, entrepreneurship, and engagement. * Provides guidance and oversight to ensure exceptional project execution by continually enhancing project management practices, aiming to exceed customer expectations consistently. * Collaborates with relevant parties outside the department, formulating strategies/project proposals across departmental borders, establishing networks with scientific and business entities to gather input on technological advancements and trends. * Harnesses in-depth customer insights to drive informed decision-making and effective strategy implementation, ensuring alignment with customer needs and market dynamics. * Takes the lead in driving data-driven decision-making processes to enhance efficiency and effectiveness across operational functions, leveraging analytics and metrics to optimize performance and drive continuous improvement. * Plays a role in formulating parts of the product development policy and manages a software or hardware development group, integrating development processes with industrial, marketing, or purchasing processes. * Guides the development of systems/products and technology roadmap, optimizes competencies against product development projects and product creation process within organizational and market dynamics. * Leads succession planning and comprehensive talent management, driving employee selection, performance management, compensation management, and career development in alignment with organizational operational goals. **Minimum required Education:** Bachelor's / Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science Engineering, Innovation, Business or equivalent. **Minimum required Experience:** Minimum 8 years of experience with Bachelor's OR Minimum 6 years of experience with Master's in areas such as Manufacturing, Production, Engineering, Management, System Design, R&D or equivalent. **Minimum required Certification:** N/A **Preferred Education:** N/A **Preferred Experience:** N/A **Preferred Certification:** Lean Six Sigma or equivalent **Preferred Skills:** * Hardware Engineering * Operational Excellence Methodologies * Strategic Planning * Project Management * Budget Management * People Management * Product Development Lifecycle Management * Systems Engineering * Business Acumen * Configuration Management (CM) * Stakeholder Management * Operations Management * Change Management **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. Indicate if this role is an office/field/onsite 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. * Learn more about our business. * Discover our rich and exciting history. * Learn more about our purpose. 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 here.